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The platform 35 pages

ConceptsThe six clickable KYE Protocol™ primitives — Identity, Authority, Scope, State, Audit, On-Behalf-Of
KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™ — a 4-tier ladder (A0 Human-only / A1 Assist / A2 Scoped delegation / A3 Autonomous with Authority Finality™). Sharpens EC-Council ADG's…
KYE™ Minimum Authority Controls™KYE™ Minimum Authority Controls™ (KAC-1..KAC-12) — the canonical twelve-control taxonomy KYE Protocol™ materially enforces at runtime. Mirrors EC-Council ADG's…
Ontology ProfileKYE™ Ontology Profile™ is the semantic layer of KYE™ — shared meaning of entities, authorities, capabilities, scopes, states, decisions, evidence, profiles…
Operating Model ProfileKYE™ Operating Model Profile™ — the enterprise adoption layer of KYE™. From use-case intake to readiness, authority records, authority gates, commit…
Protocol overviewTechnical overview of KYE Protocol™ — Authority Graph™, Decision Map™, taxonomy & metadata, runtime & state model, profile inventory, coverage matrix, 16…
ValueThe added value of KYE Protocol™ across five lenses: people (end user, citizen, employee, agent, developer), value chain (buyer / vendor / merchant /…
Why this mattersFor every KYE Protocol™ feature: what you get without it (the regulator-grade gap), what you get with it, and which framework requirement it satisfies.…
Customer SovereigntyKYE Protocol™ is additive and consensual. You keep your existing systems, you control exactly what you share, and KYE™ composes with your stack — it never…
The KYE™ ThesisThe KYE™ Thesis. Why KYC, KYB, KYA and other category-based verification tools cannot govern delegated AI action
Continuity Module™The KYE™ Continuity Module™ checks whether the authorised meaning of an action survives delegation, interpretation, memory, context, incentives, timing…
Continuity ProfileKYE™ Continuity Profile™ preserves the chain between intent, interpretation, delegated authority, state, decision, execution and evidence
Execution ArchitectureThe KYE Protocol™ 10-layer execution architecture. KYE™ OWNS Authority Resolution + Evidence Finality™. KYE™ INTEGRATES with observability, model-eval, compute…
Knowledge graphKYE™ knowledge graph — the live, instance-level graph of entities, authorities, delegations, capabilities, scopes, decisions and evidence
Agentic Governance™Agentic Governance™ is the category KYE Protocol™ defines: governance FOR agentic systems — humans, AI agents, and hybrid authority — resolved to Authority…
Authority Finality™A correct answer can still be unauthorised. Authority Finality™ is the category KYE Protocol™ defines and leads: proving every consequential AI-agent action…
KYE™ Agentic Governance Lifecycle™The KYE™ Agentic Governance Lifecycle™ — the ten-stage governance spine an agentic act traverses, from Intent to Renewal/Revocation, each stage bound to its…
The KYE™ Agent Authority Stack™An agent can restart; its authority must not drift unnoticed. The KYE™ Agent Authority Stack™ sits above any agent runtime — including open-source toolkits…
The AI Value ChainThe AI value chain runs Compute → Data → Models → Agent Runtime → Workflows → Actions → Evidence → Governance → Feedback. KYE Protocol™ occupies one layer no…
AI Exponential → Runtime AuthorityAI capability is compounding faster than any policy cycle can respond. KYE Protocol™ moves governance to the one layer that keeps up: the execution boundary…
Authority Governance™Authority Governance™ (Consequential Action Governance™) is the category KYE Protocol™ defines: governing who is allowed to let an AI take a consequential…
The Trust Layer for Consequential ActionLegitimacy is becoming infrastructure. KYE Protocol™ is the trust layer for consequential action — the layer that decides whether an action may proceed…
KYE™ Consequential Actor Framework™The KYE™ Consequential Actor Framework™ is a five-level classification of how consequential an AI actor is — from L0 Informational to L4 Systemic — that…
KYE™ Governed Prompts™KYE™ Governed Prompts™ deliver Agentic Governance™ with Authority Finality™ at the prompt boundary: every prompt that drives an agent action is governed as an…
KYE-Powered Directory™The KYE-Powered Directory™ is the public registry of organisations adopting KYE Protocol™ and Agentic Governance™. Entries appear only with explicit public…
Open Agent Governance Foundation™The Open Agent Governance Foundation™ is the open working group standardising Agentic Governance™ — shared schemas, evidence formats, and conformance for…
Sovereign Execution™Data sovereignty answers where AI runs. Sovereign Execution™ answers who is allowed to act — and proves it. KYE Protocol™ sits above confidential compute and…
The Business Case for Authority Finality™The internal-memo business case for Authority Finality™: inventories, policies and committee approvals don't prove authorised action. KYE Protocol™ proves each…
KYE™ Agentic Authority Index™The KYE™ Agentic Authority Index™ measures whether AI agents act with valid authority, not just whether they succeed. Ten Authority Benchmark metrics, indexed…
Selective AI SovereigntySelective AI sovereignty is staying in control when conditions change — selective control across data, models and infrastructure in proportion to risk. KYE…
Skills governanceAI agent skills and MCP servers are a new attack surface — 969 malicious agent skills were found in a single year, and 18% of organisations have no governance…
Taxonomy Color KeyThe KYE Protocol™ taxonomy color key: every top-level component family carries one distinguishable, WCAG-AA hue across light and dark themes, so you can tell a…
The agent-protocol stackAgent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK) and wire protocols (MCP, A2A, agent protocols) carry the calls. KYE Protocol™ sits…
The Unowned Centre™Observability, identity, access, evidence and model-governance are each owned by someone. The centre they surround — whether a consequential AI-agent action…
You present it, you own itWhen an AI answer is presented as authoritative, responsibility tends to sit with the party that presented it — not the sources, not the reader. KYE Protocol™…

Products 31 pages

KYE™ App StoreThe KYE™ App Store. 21 productised authority surfaces on KYE Protocol™ — payments, open finance, sandbox, sector apps, MCP, evidence, certification, legal
Rule packsRule packs are bundles of rules — condition + effect + reason code — loaded by the Rules Gateway™ at request time
KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™The KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™. Install lightweight plugins for MCP tools, webhook verification, policy adapters, evidence exports, conformance tests, sandbox…
KYE™ Connector Profiles™KYE™ Connector Profiles™ make authority portable across 11 domain families — Commerce, Payment, Open Finance, Health, Pension, Agent Runtime, Security &…
KYE™ Counterparty Governance Rail™KYE™ Counterparty Governance Rail™ — the runtime governance surface for every external party acting on your behalf: partners, suppliers, and 3rd-party AI…
KYE™ Data Governance Pack™KYE™ Data Governance Pack™ — runtime data governance for delegated AI-agent actions
KYE™ DSAR Evidence Pack™KYE™ DSAR Evidence Pack™ — signed bundle of every audit-chain entry involving a named data subject. GDPR Art. 15 / UK DPA Pt 3 Ch 3 / CCPA
KYE™ Sector PacksBrowse every KYE™ Authority Pack™ by sector — finance, health & life sciences, public sector, legal, industrial and cross-industry. Each pack governs an AI…
Your model is on Hugging Face. Its authority isn't.Hugging Face answers what a model can do. KYE Protocol™ answers whether you may USE it here — under EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA — and prove it. KYE™ binds a model or…
ChannelsEvery official KYE Protocol™ channel in one place — GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Hugging Face, and the Luma event calendars — each with its live status. One canonical…
Enterprise AI governanceWhat enterprise AI governance is, what tier-1 procurement teams require, the open standard that lets you prove conformance, and how regulated banks deploy it.…
Reality Coupling™Reality Coupling™ is the KYE Protocol™ add-on that keeps your declared AI-agent authority tightly bound to what is actually deployed — a live bijection between…
Your dataset is on Kaggle. Its authority isn't.Kaggle answers what a dataset or model can do. KYE Protocol™ answers whether you may USE it here — under EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA — and prove it. KYE™ binds a…
Audit Workspace™Audit Workspace™ is the KYE™ Delegated Auditability™ add-on: a read-only surface where an auditor reviews every AI-agent action, opens its signed Evidence…
KYE™ Authority Drift Budget™KYE™ Authority Drift Budget™ lets you set a tolerance for how far deployed AI-agent authority may drift from declared before it becomes an alert or a block…
KYE™ Site Authority™KYE™ Site Authority™: a free, non-fakeable site scan that scores how a site discloses its authority and evidence posture to AI agents — across six dimensions…
Stable Drift DetectionStable Drift Detection is the KYE Protocol™ add-on built on the Reconciliation Engine™: it continuously checks that every deployed AI-agent authority still…
KYE™ × Weights & BiasesConnect your Weights & Biases model registry to KYE™. When the model behind a production agent silently changes, regresses on an eval, or is promoted without…
KYE™ Advanced Assurance Bundle™The KYE™ Advanced Assurance Bundle™ packages the four advanced assurance add-ons — Scenario Testing™, Approval Briefs™, Reality Coupling™, and Stable Drift…
KYE™ Assurance Bundle™The KYE™ Assurance Bundle™ packages the core assurance add-ons — Audit Workspace™, control mapping, an authority risk register, Evidence Pack Pro, and Replay…
KYE™ at the inference boundary (NVIDIA NIM · vLLM)A KYE™ Policy Enforcement Point that an OpenAI-compatible inference gateway — NVIDIA NIM, Triton, vLLM, TGI — consults before running the model. Every agent…
KYE™ Oversight Envelope™KYE™ Oversight Envelope™ closes the human-over-the-loop gap: an overseer sets an authority envelope — scope, hard limits, drift thresholds — once, then…
Scenario Testing™Scenario Testing™ is the KYE Protocol™ add-on built on the Resilience Loop™: replay your AI-agent authority against what-if scenarios before they happen, so…
What KYE Protocol™ offersThe full KYE Protocol™ catalogue: platform tiers, products & packs, add-ons, developer tiers, programs, partner services and connectors — what is free, what is…
Approval Briefs™Approval Briefs™ is the KYE™ GovernedUI™ add-on that turns a pending AI-agent action into a single, plain-language brief a human can approve, reject, or…
Governed Knowledge AssistantA reference showing how a third-party document-QA / RAG knowledge assistant is governed by KYE Protocol™ at the execution boundary: every retrieval and answer…
KYE™ Federated Directory Query™KYE™ Federated Directory Query™ is the fan-out query that hits all eleven Directory indices in one round-trip and merges results under a deterministic ranking…
KYE™ Memory Authority Rail™KYE™ Memory Authority Rail™ — agent memory governed as authority-bearing state: whether a memory may be used for an action is a governed authority decision at…
KYE™ Regulator Watch™KYE™ Regulator Watch™ productises the standing-witness follow-edge of the KYE Protocol™ Followability Rail™: a supervisor holds a live, governed watch over the…
KYE™ Site Authority Registry™A public KYE™ Site Authority Registry™ record: a site's verified, registry-backed authority and evidence posture — six dimensions, covered pages and evidenced…
KYE™ Starter PacksKYE™ Starter Packs are turn-key bundles for specific sector x role x jurisdiction buyer contexts — UK Tier-1 bank SMF24, UK insurer CISO, EU DORA ICT Risk…

By sector 3 pages

KYE™ Delegated Auditability™Agentic payments, procurement agents, open finance, risk/compliance copilots — KYE™ Delegated Auditability™ for financial services
KYE™ for Clinical AIWhen AI shapes care, the authority chain must be provable before it is challenged. KYE Protocol™ is the identity, delegation, policy and evidence layer for…
CKAN & Open Data Portal ConsultantsFind consultants who can deploy, migrate, extend and govern CKAN-based data portals with KYE Protocol™&trade

Compliance, conformance & certification 11 pages

AI System Compliance CardThe KYE Protocol™ AI System Compliance Card is a public-key-verifiable, machine-readable, human-readable summary of an AI system's KYE™ bindings
Compliance frameworksPer-framework reference: which KYE Protocol™ controls map to which obligation, with framework scope, official source, and the canonical KYE™ Compliance…
OSCAL compatibilityKYE Protocol™ is OSCAL-native: every signed evidence pack maps deterministically to NIST OSCAL component-definition, system-security-plan and…
Regulatory coverageKYE Protocol™ regulatory coverage: 249 frameworks decomposed into 853 requirement groups, each marked Enforced, Designed, or Out of scope — generated from a…
EC-Council ADG ↔ KYE Protocol™ crosswalkThe analyst-grade crosswalk between EC-Council ADG (Adopt · Defend · Govern) and KYE Protocol™ primitives. ADG defines what controls organisations should…
PlaybooksThree buyer-facing run-throughs for KYE Protocol™: how a buyer runs the 28-day Audit Pilot, how a vendor self-attests conformance, and how a…
KYE™ Audit Pilot™A 28-day, shadow-mode-only KYE™ Audit Pilot™ from kickoff to signed pilot report. Concrete steps, named artefacts, regulatory-citation table, owner…
KYE™ Rights, Disputes & Disclosure Rail™KYE™ Rights, Disputes & Disclosure Rail™ — the one unifying rail for every rights request (DSAR), every contestation of an automated decision, every…
KYE™ conformance runA vendor playbook for running the 129-fixture KYE™ conformance pack against your gateway, generating a signed conformance-report.json, and posting the…
KYE™ Framework Ingestion Engine™The KYE™ Framework Ingestion Engine™ delivers Agentic Governance™ with Authority Finality™ at the source: a regulatory or expert framework is turned into a…
KYE™ regulator probeA regulator / auditor / dispute-panel playbook for verifying a KYE-anchored decision offline using only the publisher's JWKS

Solutions 8 pages

Book a demoBook a 30-minute working demo of KYE Protocol™. Bring one real AI-agent action and we will walk it through the rail live — refusal at the moment of the action…
CustomersKYE Protocol™ engagement model — how prospective adopters engage as enterprise Customers, ecosystem partners, or sector working-group participants
Self-improving agentsRecursive self-improvement changes what AI can do. KYE Protocol™ governs what AI is allowed to do. When an agent's capability drifts, its prior authority is…
AdoptAdopt KYE Protocol™ in production — apply for a pilot, audit in days against signed Evidence Packs™, operate with WORM retention and dual-channel sign-off.
Consultant BriefThe KYE Protocol™ Consultant Brief — what implementation specialists deliver, how the engagement model works, who applies, and the certification ladder.
EvaluateEvaluate KYE Protocol™ against your controls — per-audience briefs, framework coverage, and offline-verifiable Evidence Pack™ samples for a fit decision.
TryTry KYE Protocol™ — KYE™ Agent Dev Kit™ withKye() one-line wrap, shadow mode, and the sandbox. Build + operate the rail before you adopt it.
UnderstandUnderstand KYE Protocol™ — the accountability rail for AI-driven action. Concepts, glossary, frameworks-explained, and canonical reference, before you evaluate.

Developer portal 4 pages

Discoverability ProfileKYE™ Discoverability Profile™ turns the authority graph into a policy-filtered discovery layer for entities, agents, capabilities, delegations, decisions…
EcosystemThe KYE Protocol™ ecosystem: Connector Hub™ integrates, Connector Profiles™ make authority portable across sectors, App Store productises, Plugin…
Software Constitution StandardLanguage-agnostic, provider-agnostic standard for enforcing your project's design principles at CI time. Apache 2.0. KYE Protocol™ is the reference…
Event-driven by constitutionKYE™ is the only AI-governance protocol that proves it isn't post-facto. Every privileged action emits a signed evidence envelope at the moment of the…

Engage 7 pages

Expert wallPublic, attributable expert reviews of specific KYE Protocol™ artefacts. Each review is hash-linked to the artefact reviewed
KYE™ Community™KYE™ Community™ — a zero-cost, open community for AI practitioners learning to prove agent authority. Free KYE™ Learn™ courses, the open-source Constitution…
Working groupsKYE Protocol™ working groups. Six open WGs — KYE™ Core, Open Banking, Agent Governance, Evidence & Audit, Capability Profile, Compliance Mapping
Partner typesThe KYE Protocol™ partner types and their commercial models — reseller, system integrator, solution provider, connector, distributor, referral, strategic /…
AcademyLearn the category: learning paths over KYE™ Learn™, the glossary, the frameworks explained, the playbooks, the developer quickstart and the certification…
BadgesThe KYE Protocol™ verifiable-badge system in one place — what a KYE™ badge is (a replay-verifiable authority mark backed by an Evidence Pack™, not a vanity…
KYE™ Certified Agentic Delivery Pack™The KYE™ Certified Agentic Delivery Pack™ is the delivery-partner channel for consultancies, digital agencies, systems integrators, and transformation teams…

Resources 20 pages

AI governanceWhat AI governance is, why AI agents change the question, how the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, SR 11-7, and DORA converge — and how to start. The canonical answer.
Self-audit fixtureSigned JSON artefacts proving the KYE™ Reference Gateway™ governs and audits itself with its own primitives
Trust CenterKYE Protocol™ Trust Center — the procurement-grade summary. What is verifiable today (with reproducible commands), what is in progress, what requires…
Risk & mitigationThe KYE Protocol™ threat model: signing-key compromise, registry availability, false-positive denials, time-skew, replay, supply-chain risk…
Self-GovernanceThe KYE Protocol™ governs itself under its own contract. Every privileged action (CI run, deploy, schema migration, secret rotation, domain binding) emits the…
KYE™ Authority Risk Register™The board-facing aggregation surface over the audit chain. One row per (subject, gap_class) tuple. Each row binds back to the signed evidence envelope that…
PressKYE Protocol™ press kit: boilerplate, logo, screenshots, contact for journalists / analysts / partners.
Analyst Category DefinitionAnalyst-grade definition of the Agentic Governance™ category: its primitives (act, authority, purpose, scope, evidence), its boundary, and the finality it…
Analyst Fact SheetAnalyst fact sheet for KYE Protocol™: what Agentic Governance™ ships, which buyers it serves, the frameworks it maps to, and how it proves itself with…
KYE Protocol™ brand kitThe KYE Protocol™ brand kit: the KYE™ monogram in the rail-and-node frame, the wordmark, colours with their codes, Inter and JetBrains Mono, usage rules and…
SitemapEvery page on the KYE Protocol™ public site, with a one-line description of each.
Authority CourtA courtroom dramatization of Authority Finality™. The defendant is the agent's action, not the agent; the charge is whether the institution's mandate was…
All pagesEvery page of KYE Protocol™, A to Z by section.
CataloguesThe KYE Protocol™ catalogues: data classification, commercial, scopes and connectors; the public reference and the console and admin views that hold each one.
Independent SignalsVerbatim, attributed quotes from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, BCG, NIST, Deloitte and independent practitioners — all independently describing the…
PodcastsKYE™ Minute: one KYE Protocol™ glossary term in about a minute, with a full transcript and an RSS feed. Episodes are published once podcast audio is switched…
Sales deck (v3.1, 15 slides)Interactive 15-slide sales deck for the KYE Protocol™: the Entity Trust Control Plane for AI-native systems. Runtime Gateway™ answers the seven canonical…
Status (KYE Protocol™ Trust Center)Operational status of KYE Protocol™: the service components and open incidents, the daily synthetic journeys of this site and the checks of its last build.
Transparency logKYE Protocol™ publishes its own signed self-governance runs and verifies them against one published Ed25519 key: what is logged, how to verify it offline, and…
Video libraryRecorded runs of the KYE™ Governed Capture Agent™ walking real KYE™ surfaces: a governed agent deployed in KYE™ Cloud™, connected to data, refused when out of…