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Know Your Agent

Know who is behind 
every agent

Give agents the ability to autonomously transact on the internet.

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Trusted by developers and industry leaders at 2,300+ financial institutions

When an agent shows up to transact, there’s no way to prove which person or business it represents.

WITH BASELAYER’s KNOW YOUR AGENT YOU CAN
Verify the principal behind every agent action
Three connected cards identify Acme Robotics as a verified business, J. Rivera as its verified authorized person, and Fundflow-Pay as its verified operator, against a blue cityscape background.

Accept agent traffic without anonymous risk

Know which verified person and business stands behind an agent before you allow it to take action.

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Prove what matters based on the action

Selectively disclose identity and risk attributes required to accept a transaction or enable account access.

Three identity disclosure layers: Layer 1, provider/operator, openly disclosed; Layer 2, returning-customer ID, pseudonymous; Layer 3, full identity (KYC/KYB), disclosed on transaction.

Keep your secrets safe

Let agents prove who they are without handing them reusable passwords or credentials that can be stolen or misused.

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    Keep accountability intact

    Preserve the identity and delegation behind agent actions, with evidence that outlives the agent session if something goes wrong.

  • Terminal-style display showing an agent verifying Acme Robotics: verified and active, risk grade B, then proceeding to checkout.

    Give an agent portable proof of who it represents.

    Interoperable across all payment methods and protocols, with built-in matching to your existing customer identifiers.

    Terminal-style display showing an agent verifying Acme Robotics: verified and active, risk grade B, then proceeding to checkout.

    Interoperable across all payment methods and protocols, with built-in matching to your existing customer identifiers.

Diagram linking verified payment-processing agent fundflow-pay through a Baselayer Credential to verified principal J. Rivera of Acme Robotics, Inc.

Trust has to work on both sides of the transaction

Agent Builders

Give agents portable proof of who they represent and what they can do.

Merchants & Platforms

Verify the customer behind an agent before accepting an order or action.

Financial Institutions

Apply audit-grade identity and risk controls to agent-initiated workflows.

Payment Processors

Receive the risk attributes that drive acceptance rates and dispute resolution.

Trust that travels with every agent action.

Recognize the returning customer behind an agent across platforms and agent harnesses.

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Part of Baselayer’s Agentic Identity Suite.

Trust that travels with every agent action.

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INTELLIGENCE LAYER

Verified business context for agents.

Decision-ready business intelligence for AI models and agent workflows.
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Counterparty Verification

Know who your agent is dealing with.

Verify business identity and risk at the moment of action.
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Trusted Registry

Discover trusted participants.

A shared registry of verified businesses and authorized agents.

Have questions?
Find answers.

  • Know Your Agent (KYA) is the process of verifying an AI agent’s identity: which platform runs the agent, which business or person delegated the agent, and whether that delegation can be proven.

  • KYC and KYB establish the identity of a person or business. Know Your Agent connects that verified real-world identity to the agent acting on its behalf and the authority delegated to it.

  • KYA solves the trust gap created when an agent initiates a transaction instead of a person. Without KYA, a counterparty can’t tell a legitimate agent from a spoofed or malicious one, and can’t trace an action back to an accountable person. KYA makes agents identifiable so that businesses can accept agent traffic without taking on unbounded fraud and compliance risk, and retain their customer relationships.

  • Liability follows the chain of delegation, so it can only be assigned if that chain is recorded. Each action should be traceable to a specific agent, the platform that deployed it, and the person or business that authorized it. Baselayer’s role is making that chain verifiable and auditable so liability can flow to the correct party.

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