Entity.ID · A founding story · Recorded 2026
Entity.ID forms real ventures in minutes — a named entity with members, ownership, rules, and a treasury, recorded in a tamper-proof public registry. Operate today; incorporate when you need to. What follows is 34 weeks in the life of one venture: Tarka Labs.
Featuring — Anjali Rao · Faisal Ahmadi · Lucia Romero · TK-OPS, an AI agent
Setting — a product studio with paying clients and nothing on paper
Chapter 01 · Friday, January 9, 2026 · 23:47
A kitchen table in Bengaluru. Three people agree to build together. Nothing is written down.
Scene · The state of things
Anjali, Faisal, and Lucia had been shipping client work for months. By every practical measure Tarka Labs already existed — except the measures that matter when money, credit, or conflict shows up.
A handshake holds three people together right up until it doesn't.
Chapter 02 · Wednesday, January 14, 2026 · 09:12
Lucia opens app.entity.id with her coffee. Seven steps later, Tarka Labs is real.
Scene · The formation
Name → purpose → partners → ownership → terms → constitution → register. Before the coffee went cold, Tarka Labs had verified members, a written constitution, and a public address anyone on earth can look up:
Evidence · captured 2026-01-14
Step 1 — claim the name.
Step 4 — 40 / 35 / 25, written down at last.
Ownership went from a vibe to a number.
Chapter 03 · Monday, February 2, 2026 · 14:03
An invoice goes out under the venture's name. The payment lands in the venture's treasury.
Scene · The treasury
Client payments stopped routing through Anjali's personal account. The treasury belongs to Tarka Labs — spending above a threshold needs a second approval, and every movement lands in the venture's permanent record. Anjali's bank account went back to being a bank account.
Evidence · captured 2026-02-02
Finance — treasury accounts, banking, and the cap table live inside the venture, not inside anyone's personal login.
"Whose account does the client pay?" stopped being a question.
Chapter 04 · Wednesday, March 18, 2026 · 11:26
A fourth member joins Tarka Labs. It isn't human. It doesn't sleep.
Scene · Know Your Agent
Ops was eating the founders' evenings, so they hired an AI operations agent. On Entity.ID that isn't a hack with someone's borrowed password — TK-OPS passed KYA (Know Your Agent) verification and joined the venture as a member in its own right: disclosed operator, scoped permissions, full audit trail.
Same registry, same standing, same accountability. TK-OPS runs treasury operations inside the rules the founders set — and every action it takes is signed and recorded.
Evidence · captured 2026-03-18
Governance — members, roles, proposals, and voting rules. Humans and verified agents sit on the same roster.
The first hire that came with its own audit trail.
Chapter 05 · Wednesday, May 6, 2026 · 16:40
An angel asks the usual diligence questions. The answer is a URL.
Scene · The raise
Who owns what? Who decided what, and when? Where does the money sit? For most handshake teams that's weeks of archaeology. For Tarka Labs it was already public: formation date, members, cap table, every recorded decision. The round ran through Fundraising — post-money SAFEs issued by the venture, funds settling straight to the treasury.
Fundraising — SAFEs from the venture; funds settle to its treasury.
What the investor saw — one page, everything verifiable.
The venture didn't have to prove it existed. The record did the talking.
Chapter 06 · Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · 10:00
The lead investor wants a C-Corp. Fine. Nothing has to be rebuilt.
Scene · The upgrade
For most teams, incorporating after months of handshakes means untangling who owns what and who agreed to which terms. Tarka Labs just carried its record across. The venture became the company it had been for months.
Eight months of history walked into the C-Corp on day one.
Epilogue · Behind the story
Everything in this story is something Entity.ID does today: a 7-step formation that takes minutes, a public tamper-proof record, and a dashboard the venture runs on from day one.
STEP 1
Name your venture
STEP 2
Purpose & details
STEP 3
Add partners
STEP 4
Split ownership
STEP 5
Agree terms
STEP 6
Pick a constitution
STEP 7
Review & register
Who writes chapter one
Operating on handshakes and needing structure before — or instead of — incorporation.
Client money, contributor splits, and project entities without the legal overhead.
Shared treasuries and real membership rules for groups that were never going to file paperwork.
Verifiable identity, legal standing, treasury access, and disclosure — KYA-verified from day one.
Why the record holds
Formation, members, ownership, and decisions live in a public registry no single party can quietly edit.
Ventures are recorded on the Entity.ID protocol — an open standard anyone can verify against. No lock-in.
KYC for people, KYA for AI agents. Every member — human or not — is verifiable, with disclosed standing.
Pick your resolution path during formation — arbitration options include Kleros v2 — before you ever need it.
The dashboard tour
Chapter 01 · Your venture · Unwritten
Name it, split it, write the rules down once — and start operating today. Free to form.
your-venture.public.entity.id