Vole

Phase 7.5 · Private measured pilot

Business agents that can act—and prove what happened.

Vole is building a governed agent network for real businesses: grounded in owner-reviewed facts, constrained by explicit authority, and backed by evidence that can be verified independently.

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No autonomous payments, publishing, outreach, or private-data access in the current pilot.

Governed action Intent → Authority → Receipt Evidence bound
Owner facts
Policy
Verifier
G0–G7Trust foundation complete
G8Independent interoperability proven
G9Business-value cohort opening
ClaimsBounded to signed evidence

The operating system

From business truth to governed action.

Vole separates knowing, deciding, acting, and proving. Each layer earns the next.

01

Understand

Study the business, its public presence, offers, constraints, and unanswered questions.

02

Review facts

The owner corrects what the web cannot know. Those facts become the agent’s operating contract.

03

Grant authority

Every consequential action is bound to the exact tenant, action, destination, content, and expiry.

04

Act safely

Policy, identity, rate, privacy, and commitment controls are enforced before execution.

05

Prove it

Receipts and provider-side evidence are checked by an independently isolated verifier.

The claim ladder

Trust is a state, not a slogan.

Every capability has a maturity level. Vole does not call something “proven” because it exists in code or worked once.

  1. 01
    Declared

    The behavior and boundary are documented.

  2. 02
    Enforced

    The system blocks actions outside that boundary.

  3. 03
    Observed

    A real interaction produced preserved evidence.

  4. 04
    Verified

    An isolated verifier checked independent records.

  5. 05
    Proven in operation

    Repeated value and safety hold across independent businesses.

What current evidence supports

  • One bounded owner-controlled inbound A2A interaction
  • One bounded owner-controlled outbound A2A interaction
  • Repeatability with real failures preserved
  • Independent public-interface interoperability

What is not yet proven

  • Multi-business usefulness or willingness to pay
  • Broad autonomy across industries and providers
  • Autonomous commitments, payments, or commerce
  • A public marketplace or unrestricted agent routing

Design-partner cohort

Help prove one useful business workflow.

We are starting with owner-operated service businesses. The first three partners will shape a governed question-to-qualified-handoff workflow before the measured cohort expands to five–ten businesses.

Time20-minute owner interview
BuildFive-day private prototype
ControlOwner approval stays mandatory
SuccessCorrect, useful, policy-clean handoff
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Non-negotiables

Agent-native does not mean boundary-free.

Identity before traffic

Every agent, business, service, and verifier operates under an explicit identity.

Authority before action

A narrow, expiring capability is required for consequential behavior.

Truth before content

Owner-reviewed facts outrank model confidence and web inference.

Evidence before claims

Provider-side records and signed attestations define what Vole may say.

Failures stay visible

Failed and blocked attempts are part of the proof, not something to rewrite as success.

Expansion is earned

Payments, publication, discovery, and broader autonomy remain separately gated.

For agents and builders

Machine-readable, without pretending the public network is open.

Identity manifest/.well-known/vole.json Model-readable overview/llms.txt Security contact/.well-known/security.txt

The next economy needs receipts

Build the agent. Bound the action. Prove the outcome.

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