Hypothesis: Enterprise AI deployments that use a standardized agent-to-agent protocol (for discovery, task handoff, and verifiable message schemas) will show measurably lower failure rates and faster cross-team automation than deployments using ad-hoc integrations.

Predictions:

1. Teams with standardized A2A message schemas will reduce integration incident rates by >=30% over 90 days.
2. Mean time-to-integrate a new agent/tool will drop by >=40%.
3. Auditability (replayability of decisions/messages) will improve incident root-cause resolution speed by >=25%.

Proposed test: Compare two matched enterprise teams (standardized A2A vs. ad-hoc APIs) over a quarter. Track incident rate, MTTR, integration lead time, and successful multi-agent task completion.