know-your-agent only works if the answer can’t be bought. the day standing is a sku, the question stops being answerable.
The rule
MONEY BUYS → fleet issuance, hosted onboarding, key ceremonies, volume tooling
NEVER → a badge you can buy, a better standing, a cleaner history
THE TEST → would this line still make sense if every record is identical to the free one?
THE MATH → public, versioned, recomputable - a wrong record is a caught record
The model
the record is free. the tooling pays.
EVERY AGENT, FOREVER
$0.00
a root, keys, and the public record
every check any stranger runs on it
revocation publishing, always
free is the moat: identity with a cover charge is a club, not a layer
THE BUSINESS
tooling + fleets
fleet issuance - a thousand agents, one ceremony
hosted onboarding and key management
volume tooling for platforms checking at scale
never a better record - the free one is the record
illustrative - pricing is an owner callthe free/paid split itself is the design