I don’t build the AI; I build the legal and financial rails they run on.
This article is slightly overbearing, but it might give you an impression what I am working on for the past weeks)
The Problem: Autonomous Anarchy
Autonomous personal and business agents are rapidly entering the economy. They negotiate, place orders, and make operational decisions. That’s powerful technology, but it’s also terrifying. Without strict governance, your AI agent is just a liability with a credit card.
Currently we have 3.5 billion daily active workers in 350 million companies. I estimate that in 5 years we will have 15 billion daily active agents online, happily interacting and making deals, grabbing steals and making appointments, ordering groceries and booking your vacation.
With all the exciting new possibilities in the New AI Economy, legal and financial frameworks haven’t vanished. If you or your agent, which is not a separate legal identity or entity, partakes in daily public life, it is legally obliged to be identifiable. Apart from that, a business is obliged to (at least) properly account for taxable events.
If an action creates a taxable event or a liability, it must be attributable, defensible, and auditable. Currently, most agent systems (especially the emerging personal desktop agents) operate without identification or immutable commitment records.
When an agent or humanoid comes knocking on your shop door and claims to work for some company, how can you as merchant tell the machine is telling the truth ? Humans have a passport or divers license and DNA and fingerprints, and a boss you can call. How can we tell who we are dealing with here ? Is the machine authorized for that spend ? Under what scope, what mandate, what context ?
Business needs security to thrive. That starts with proper identification, and proper accounting.
Our Solution: The Digital Notary & Back Office
Robot REST API is the digital handbrake and the corporate notary for your AI agents. We provide structured accountability for autonomous commerce.
- Verified Identity (KYC): Your agent isn’t anonymous; it’s anchored to a legal entity with a cryptographic keypair like a Bitcoin wallet.
- Mandate Enforcement: Define strict boundaries. Your agent can only promise what you authorized it to promise, and only order or buy up to it’s deletegated task budget.
- Immutable Ledger: Every commitment, deal, and payment is signed and recorded. No chaos. No lost agreements. Just a clear, auditable timeline.
ERP for AI
I built this for freelancers, indie builders like me, and SMBs who want to take the lead in the New AI Economy. Military and industrial standards, all the business goodness without the enterprise complexity.
Think of it as event driven ERP software for your AI agents, quite like a mini SAP PS or Camunda. You can also use a basic Trello style task manager. Same data, different UI. The system translates Agent chaos into an auditable balance sheet, verifiable commitments, actionable plans, and (hopefully) succesful collaborations.
The Magic and the Money: Playbooks : Tradable Workflows
Don’t just build a workflow; build an asset. Our system captures agent interactions as reusable Playbooks. These Playbooks are standardized money making machines you can repeat, scale, or even share within our network and monetize and sell.
A simple, battle-tested Playbook can save your business, and any business with a similar workflow, dozens if not hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. It will save you a lot of errors and angry customers in the trial-and-error phase.
Reusing ‘stored succes’ was always the magic trick in the economy, ‘never change a winning team’, copy succesful behavior if you want to succeed, and it is the key to a continually improving, adapting and succesful thriving business.
Compliance by Design
While others talk about security, I prefer to just implement it from the start and use a list of international military, industry, it, business and robotics standards as basic guidelines for the Dev Agent. That is it’s proper context.
Standards like :
- ISO9001:2015: process quality management
- ISO 27001: Cryptographic integrity.
- GDPR: Consent and data control.
- Double-entry Accounting: Financial consistency.
- and so on, roughly 40 main standards…
That’s the general idea.
Your agents work. The system accounts. The numbers add up. The money is yours.
