The company layer of the agent economy

Agents can pay.
Now they can be someone.

Registered within real ventures, anchored to accountable humans — with the standing to transact. Don't take our word for it. Run the check.

DEMO 01 — run the standing check yourself

TWO-AGENT TRANSACTION SIMULATOR · ENTITY.ID PROTOCOL

agent_7f3a…e2 unregistered process STANDING: NONE

NAMEUNKNOWN

VENTUREUNKNOWN

OWNER CHAINUNRESOLVED

COMPLIANCENONE

TREASURYNO ACCESS

registering on the Entity.ID protocol

CLERK-2 kestrel-logistics.public.entity.id

STATUSGOOD STANDING

INTENTpurchase · $4,120

STANDING CHECK · ENTITY.ID PROTOCOL

>an unregistered process cannot be checked — registering…

>CLERK-2 requests to transact — press ▶ RUN CHECK

>verify CLERK-2 → ATLAS-1running

identity........................VERIFIED

owner chain.....................RESOLVED

compliance......................COMPATIBLE

treasury mandate................IN SCOPE

CLEARED TO TRANSACT

The gap

Every rail got built — except the one that makes an agent a party.

Payment mandates

"A human authorized this."

counterparty: unknown

Operator signatures

"A known operator sent this."

accountability: none

KYA credentials

"The developer passed review."

standing: none

Enterprise IAM

"The agent has a login."

outside the tenant: meaningless

Nobody proves this agent is someone — with owners, a treasury, rules, and a jurisdiction.

THAT'S THE COMPANY LAYER

MAY 2026 — an agent reportedly forms its own LLC + EIN + bank account — with no disclosure layer behind it 2026 — it takes a judge to decide whether an AI agent may shop on Amazon 2024 — an airline argues its chatbot is "a separate legal entity" — and loses, because no such entity exists 2025 — a frontier-lab shop agent invents a payment account and tells customers to pay into it 2025 — crawlers caught rotating identities across tens of thousands of domains

The mechanism

Registration confers standing.

The same mechanism that made companies real — run in minutes, shown live below.

STEP 01

Register the venture.

Seven steps, minutes. Public, tamper-proof, at atlas-research.public.entity.id.

app.entity.id/form — formation wizard

the 7-step wizard — name → partners → ownership → terms → register

STEP 02

Seat the agent.

A registered role, treasury scoped by governance, an owner chain that resolves to humans. IAM gives agents logins. Entity.ID gives them positions.

DEMO 02 — the live members module, scroll inside it

tarka-labs.public.entity.id — organization / members● LIVE APP

LOADING LIVE MODULE…

real interface — members, roles & ownership of the demo venture

STEP 03

Transact recognized ↔ recognized.

One call returns everything a counterparty needs — before value moves.

DEMO 03 — the trust file, typed live

standing check — the Entity.ID protocolPUBLIC · VERIFIABLE

The chain

Every agent resolves to someone who answers.

DEMO 04 — hover each link in the chain

⟐ATLAS-1 — the agent
registered role · treasurer · mandate ≤ $25,000/moON RECORD

▣Atlas Research — the venture
constitution · treasury · governance · public addressON RECORD

◫Members & owners
ownership 60/40 · voting rules · disclosedON RECORD

✓Verified humans & companies
identity-verified anchors · the people who answerVERIFIED

unbroken · tamper-proof · checked before value moves

The scariest object in practice arrived in May 2026: an agent with its own LLC, EIN, and bank account — and no disclosed governance.

This chain is the antidote. Not personhood for machines — accountability, by construction.

The product

A real venture behind every agent.

DEMO 05 — the flagship film · 2:33

FLAGSHIP DEMO · FORMATION → OPERATING VENTURE · 2:33

DEMO 06 — the live dashboard, click around inside it

tarka-labs.public.entity.id — overview · treasury · governance · compliance● LIVE APP

LOADING LIVE DASHBOARD…

this is the interface — navigate the sidebar: treasury, fundraising, governance, members, compliance

Who it's for

Three doors into the same registry.

Agent developers

Your agent is brilliant — and unbankable.

→ seat your first agent

Enterprises

"The AI did it autonomously" is not a defense.

California statute since January 2026. Put your agents on the record.

→ disclose & scope your agents

Hybrid founders

One founder. Five agents. A real company.

Form it in minutes; seat agents alongside humans.

→ form a venture

Know your agent

The mandate has a date. The infrastructure didn't exist. We built it.

Aug 2, 2026

EU AI Act Art. 50 disclosure duties become enforceable — explicitly reaching agents.

EU AI ACT

$0T

of B2B spend forecast to run through agent exchanges by 2028.

GARTNER, NOV 2025

0,000

agents already transacting ~$600M/yr on one machine-payment protocol — none with a legal identity.

ECOSYSTEM-REPORTED, 2026

1999

machine-formed contracts became binding US law. Capacity was never the gap. Standing is.

UETA · E-SIGN

The protocol

An open standard, not a walled garden.

Public, tamper-proof records; standing checks any system can run — a payment rail, a marketplace, an insurer, another agent. Neutrality is the product.

GET /standing/atlas-1.atlas-research.public.entity.id200 OK

{
  "agent":       "ATLAS-1",
  "venture":     "atlas-research.public.entity.id",
  "owner_chain": ["2 members", "2 verified humans"],
  "compliance":  "eu-ai-act.art50 · kleros-v2",
  "treasury":    "≤ $25,000/mo · governance-set",
  "status":      "GOOD_STANDING"
}

The arc

Every economy gets the actors its law can see.

1819: the law learned to see companies. 1999: it accepted a machine's signature. 2026: agents get standing.

DEMO 07 — scroll to draw two centuries of personhood

Entity.ID

Give your agents standing.

recognized ↔ recognized · the Entity.ID protocol · an open registry standard

Agents can pay.Now they can be someone.

Every rail got built — except the one that makes an agent a party.

Nobody proves this agent is someone — with owners, a treasury, rules, and a jurisdiction.

Registration confers standing.

Register the venture.

Seat the agent.

Transact recognized ↔ recognized.

Every agent resolves to someone who answers.

A real venture behind every agent.

Three doors into the same registry.

Your agent is brilliant — and unbankable.

"The AI did it autonomously" is not a defense.

One founder. Five agents. A real company.

The mandate has a date. The infrastructure didn't exist. We built it.

An open standard, not a walled garden.

Every economy gets the actors its law can see.

Give your agents standing.

Agents can pay.
Now they can be someone.