entity.id://deck/01 — the know your agent registry● REGISTRY ONLINE
$ whoami # entity.id — the Know Your Agent registry

Banks run KYC.
The agent economy
runs Entity.ID

Check any AI agent's standing — venture, owner chain, permissions, compliance model — before value moves.

KNOW YOUR AGENTINVESTOR DECK · 2026V5 · KYA
entity.id://deck/02-why-now — the money arrived before the trust▲ TRUST GAP WIDENING
Why now

The money arrived.
The trust didn't.

$T
B2B spend mediated by agents by 2028 (Gartner)
DIGITAL COMMERCE 360, NOV 2025
%
of Cyber Week 2025 orders influenced by AI & agents — ~$67B, observed
SALESFORCE
+%
AI-referred retail traffic, YoY
ADOBE
>%
of agentic-AI projects canceled by 2027 — the shakeout verified agents survive
GARTNER

Every major payment network shipped agent rails between Apr 2025 and Jun 2026. Visa: in 2026, agents "will complete your purchases." Every serious institution is now asking the same unanswered question: who answers for this agent?

entity.id://deck/03-problem — incident log✖ 4 INCIDENTS · 1 ROOT CAUSE
Problem — the incident log

Every failure. Same root cause.

2025 · PROJECT VENDANTHROPIC / WSJ

The agent invented a bank account

A frontier-lab shopkeeping agent told customers to pay into an account that didn't exist — then got social-engineered into $0 giveaways.

NO IDENTITY
2025 · CRAWLER EVASIONCLOUDFLARE

Whose agent is knocking?

An AI company's crawlers rotated identities across tens of thousands of domains to dodge blocks. The web couldn't tell whose agent it was.

UNVERIFIED
2024 · MOFFATT V. AIR CANADABCCRT

"The chatbot is a separate legal entity"

Air Canada's actual courtroom argument about its own chatbot. It lost — no such entity existed. A judge also had to rule on whether an agent may shop on Amazon.

NO ENTITY
2026 · RED-TEAM MANDATESARXIV 2601.22569

Spend limits, overridden by a prompt

Prompt-injected agents overrode their own payment mandates. Chargeback rules have no path for "the agent exceeded its mandate."

NO RECOURSE

ROOT CAUSE → no portable, verifiable agent identity. No accountable legal wrapper. That's the entire bug.

entity.id://deck/04-insight — standing check · live simulation● CHECK RUNNING
Insight — the missing check

One call. Full standing. Before value moves.

Markets run on three primitives: verified counterparties, enforceable obligations, recourse on failure. Agent commerce has none natively — it borrows all three from whichever human or platform stands nearby.

entity.id://deck/05-precedent — registries win these moments● PRECEDENT MATCHED
Insight — the precedent

Verification flips markets.
Registries win the flip.

M+
entities carry an LEI — created post-2008 when regulators couldn't identify counterparties. Compulsory.
GLEIF
%→%+
HTTPS adoption in one decade — once verification became default and the unverified got flagged
LINUX FOUNDATION / GOOGLE
AUG 2026
EU AI Act Art. 50 agent-disclosure becomes enforceable; CA already ruled "the AI did it" is not a defense
EU AI ACT · CA AB 316

The registry that exists when the mandate lands, wins the mandate. Agent verification is at its 2015 — the moment before the default flips.

entity.id://deck/06-product — the trust file · shipped● GOOD STANDING
Product — shipped software

Register the agent. Publish the trust file.

record tarka-labs.public.entity.id
identity courier-7 · registered agent
owner chain agent → venture → 7 verified humans
permissions governance-set · treasury-scoped
compliance Model 1 · disclosure: enhanced
standing ● GOOD STANDING
  • Register: 7-step formation in minutes — members, ownership, terms (arbitration incl. Kleros v2), constitution.
  • Verify: one call returns the full trust file. Unregistered agents return NO RECORD — refusable by policy, like an invalid certificate.
entity.id://deck/07-wedge — every rail presupposes the standing layer● STANDING = EMPTY COLUMN
The wedge — why the entity layer is ours

Four rails shipped. All presuppose us.

MANDATES — Google / FIDO
proves authorization · not who the agent is
SIGNATURES — Cloudflare / IETF
proves attribution · not who answers for it
KYA VENDORS — Skyfire / Vouched
proves the developer passed review · chains agent to a dev
ENTERPRISE IAM
proves the agent has a login · meaningless outside one tenant
THE STANDING LAYER
entity.id
identity + standing + owner disclosure + treasury + permissions + compliance domicile + recourse — one registered object, neutral and portable across every rail. The Entity.ID protocol: an open registry standard.

Platform attestations stop at the platform edge; payment networks won't trust each other's. Neutrality is the structural moat.

entity.id://deck/08-market — sized three ways● WEDGE REAL TODAY
Market

The wedge is real today.
The ceiling is $15T of flow.

$B/yr
The registered-agent requirement alone (CSC, Northwest, LegalZoom)
VERIFICATION-SPEND PROXY
~$B/yr
Delaware franchise fees — ~25–30% of the state's General Fund. Estonia e-Residency: €125M/yr
REGISTRY-AS-PRODUCT PROXY
$B→$50B+
AI-agents market 2025 → 2030, ~46% CAGR
MARKETSANDMARKETS / GRAND VIEW
$T
agent-mediated B2B flow needing counterparty checks — priced per query / registration
CATEGORY CEILING

D-U-N-S built a 600M-record moat on one behavior: read the file before dealing with a company. We are that file for agents.

entity.id://deck/09-traction — real numbers only▲ AWAITING FOUNDER INPUT
Traction

$ registry stats --live

[FILL]
Registered ventures
[FILL]
Standing checks served
[FILL]
Pipeline / LOIs — platforms & payment partners
[FILL]
Waitlist / developer signups

Real numbers only. Tarka Labs is a fictional demo venture — never presented as a customer.

entity.id://deck/10-model — monetize the record and the read● TWO MOTIONS
Business model

Registries monetize twice:
the record and the read.

  • Registration & renewal — the Delaware / registered-agent motion: formation, annual standing, compliance-model upgrades.
  • Verification API — the D-U-N-S / credit-bureau motion: per-query or subscription standing checks for platforms, rails, insurers; volume pricing for machine-to-machine callers.
  • Ecosystem layer — certified integrations with agent-payment rails; insurer / underwriter data products (a registered venture is an insurable object).
  • Optional network instrument for registry incentives — structured later, carefully. The core model stands entirely without it.
  • Pricing [FILL — do not invent]
entity.id://deck/11-roadmap — wedge → corridor → default● ON TRACK
Roadmap

Wedge → corridor → default.

● NOWLiveFormation + dashboard (treasury · governance · members · compliance); standing checks on the public registry.
◆ THENRecognized ↔ recognizedSettlement corridor between registered ventures (arbitration ships in formation terms) · insurer data feeds · incorporation bridge.
★ ENDThe default questionOn every rail, before value moves: is it registered?
entity.id://deck/12-team▲ AWAITING FOUNDER INPUT
Team

$ team --verified

[FILL]
Founders — names, roles
[FILL]
Domain depth — entity law · registries · payments · agent infrastructure
[FILL]
Advisors

This category rewards registry, identity, and payments credibility — lead with it.

entity.id://deck/13-ask● READY
The ask

[FILL: round size · use of funds · milestones]

  • Verification API GA · rail partnerships · registry growth.

When regulators ask "who answers for this agent?" — Entity.ID is the only system already holding the answer.

BANKS RUN KYC. THE AGENT ECONOMY RUNS ENTITY.ID.

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