— every company that ever mattered, day zero

"we should build this together." RECORD Nº 0001 — "WE SHOULD BUILD THIS TOGETHER."

The venture registry where handshakes become institutions.

Entity.ID · Recorded

everyone is founding something…Why now

The promises are multiplying faster than the legal system was designed for.

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new US business applications in 2025 — an all-time record, accelerating into 2026

US Census BFS

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Stripe Atlas incorporations YoY, Q1 2026 — AI is minting founders

Stripe / MindStudio

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US independent workers; 30.4M zero-employee businesses, $1.8T in receipts

MBO Partners · US Census

More founding moments per year than ever in history — and the official system still starts at a $500 Delaware filing, or nothing. Almost everyone picks nothing.

"we'll figure out equity later…"The problem

Promises die unstructured.

the fuzzy split

"Later" arrives with a term sheet — and three different memories of who owns what.

the personal account

First revenue lands in one founder's checking account. Now trust is an accounting problem.

the falling-out

No rules, no record, no clean way to leave. Most ventures live and die in that nothing.

And now it has legal teeth: Samuels v. Lido DAO (2025) — members of an unstructured collective held potentially liable as general partners. Between the handshake and the filing there is nothing.

what makes a company real?The insight

An entity was never paper. It's disclosure on a record.

Who's in it. Who owns what. What rules govern it. Where the money sits — published where counterparties can verify it.
That's all a state registry ever was. Nothing about it requires a state, a lawyer, or a six-week queue.
So move the record to the real founding moment — the handshake — and let it grow into the state filing instead of waiting for one.

Disclosure = existence

name it, split it, shake on itThe product

The promise, made official in minutes.

7 steps: name → purpose → partners → ownership → terms → constitution → review.
A public venture address — tarka-labs.public.entity.id — on a tamper-proof record.
A live dashboard from day one: Treasury · Fundraising · Governance · Members · Compliance.
"Operate today, incorporate when you need to" — a sentence no incumbent can say. All of them require the filing first.

the record, running · silent tour

our first hire isn't humanThe wedge · KYA

Today's handshake includes an agent.

Every major payment network shipped agent rails within 18 months — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe+OpenAI, Google, PayPal. Agents can pay. They can't legally exist.
~69,000 agents already transact ~$600M/yr on one protocol alone; the first "AI millionaire" has no legal way to own its wealth.
The registrar marketing agent incorporation hardest: $9,500 + weeks + a mandatory human kill switch. The agent is never the principal.
On Entity.ID an agent gets standing — membership and ownership inside a venture, anchored to accountable humans, checkable by any counterparty. KYA: Know Your Agent.

the money is already realMarket

The money is real — and the leaders are asleep.

$0M

LegalZoom FY2025 revenue on formation paperwork alone — leaders acquiring, not building

LegalZoom earnings

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Carta ARR on the ops layer — and it can't onboard you without a certificate of incorporation

Carta

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Estonia e-Residency — proof that registries are products people pay for

e-resident.gov.ee

Online legal services ~$25.2B (2025) → ~$47B (2030); AI-agents market ~$8B → ~$50B+ (~46% CAGR). We take formation's volume, the ops layer's revenue model, and a greenfield nobody structural can enter: agent standing.

count what's realTraction

The registry publishes its own numbers — this slide is the demo.

Registered ventures

[FILL] count

Weekly formations / activation

[FILL] rate

Treasury volume under record

[FILL] volume

Agent-member registrations · waitlist · partnerships

[FILL] counts

Estonia's playbook: lead with live counters. Nothing on this slide is ever invented.

how the record earnsBusiness model

Registry economics: the record is the wedge, operations are the revenue.

Free formation → paid operations

Treasury, fundraising, governance, compliance modules — Carta-shaped revenue on Atlas-shaped volume.

Verification & standing checks

KYA lookups as metered infrastructure — every agent-to-agent transaction is a potential standing check.

Incorporation hand-off

Lifecycle services at the moment ventures mature — registry record → state filing, one motion.

Protocol economics · optional

The Entity.ID protocol as an open standard with network fees on registry writes/verifications. [FILL] chosen model

The record is the wedge; operations are the revenue; the protocol is the moat.

promise → record → institutionRoadmap

Each stage widens the moat.

Now

Formation + operating record live — 7-step wizard, treasury, governance, members, compliance.

Then

Registry network effects — standing checks embedded in agent frameworks and payment rails; multi-jurisdiction incorporation menu.

Records → verifications → the default trust layer of agent commerce.

who's shaking your handTeam

Registry businesses are won by credibility.

Founders

[FILL] founders · backgrounds

Why us

[FILL] why-us

Pair builder speed with regulatory and legal depth — that's what a registry has to prove.

shake on itThe ask

Every institution began as a handshake. We're asking you to shake on this one — while it's still a promise.

Raising

[FILL] amount · instrument

Use of funds

[FILL] KYA API GA · incorporation bridge · partnerships

Milestones this buys

[FILL] milestones

You already made the promise.

Make it official.

Recorded

Entity.ID — the venture registry