The trust layer for AI
AI agents can’t prove who they are. Users can’t verify which agents are legitimate. And there’s no governance for what happens when agents talk to each other. ProvenAI solves all three. It provides the verifiable AI agent identity using the same cryptographic credential infrastructure already deployed at country-scale borders and global financial institutions.
AI without identity is AI without trust
AI chatbots and copilots handle sensitive requests — loan applications, booking changes, account inquiries — without cryptographic proof that the user is who they claim to be. They rely on passwords, OTPs, and knowledge-based questions that deepfakes and social engineering are able to defeat.
There is no standard mechanism for a user to verify that the AI agent they’re talking to is legitimate. Phishing, spoofed agents, and impersonation attacks are trivial to execute and impossible for users to detect without cryptographic verification of the agent’s identity.
When AI agents interact with other AI agents — delegating tasks, sharing data, executing transactions — there is no trust framework. No way to verify authority, scope permissions, or maintain auditable compliance trails across autonomous systems.
Mutual authentication for humans and machines
ProvenAI provides verifiable AI agent identity through the same credential technology that clears travelers through borders and verifies bank customers applied to every AI agent, every AI interaction.
The AI agent requests a Verifiable Credential from their digital wallet at the start of an AI interaction. The user consents and taps to share it.
The agent cryptographically verifies the user’s credential is authentic. Simultaneously, the user’s software verifies the agent is legitimate. Both sides proven before any data moves.
Structured, pre-verified data from multiple credentials flows directly to the agent: name, account details, permissions, context. No manual input. No errors. Full consent and audit trail.
ProvenAI for DTC, KYC
Your AI agents can authenticate travelers using Digital Travel Credentials, and banking and finserv customers using KYC credentials.
AI agents cryptographically authenticate travelers presenting Digital Travel Credentials. Travelers can present their digital passport alongside loyalty program credentials, or credentials containing other critical data. For airlines, this means passengers no longer manually input data from multiple sources — names, flight details, Passenger Name Records — to interact with chatbots or AI agents. Structured, pre-verified data flows directly to the agent, reducing input errors, authentication failures, and customer service escalations. The first product to let AI agents verify digital passports.
For the first time, AI agents deployed by banks and financial institutions can cryptographically verify customer identity using Verifiable Credentials held in digital wallets — eliminating reliance on passwords, document review, and perception-based biometrics. Customers complete identity verification once and receive a portable credential they can present across participating institutions, reducing KYC costs, eliminating redundant onboarding, and dramatically improving conversion rates.
The missing layer: governance for AI agent networks
Indicio DEGov provides machine-readable governance files that tell every participant in an AI network — issuers, holders, verifiers, and agents — who is trusted, what permissions exist, and which interactions are authorized. This is the capability Gartner recognized as unique to Indicio: orchestration of autonomous systems through cryptographic trust.
Governance files published by the natural authority for a network. Every agent’s software knows who to trust before any interaction begins.
Orchestration respects levels of authority. An agent can delegate tasks to another agent only within its scoped permissions.
Agents from different organizations interact within a shared trust framework. No bilateral integrations. No centralized broker.
Every credential presentation, every permission check, every delegated action can be logged, timestamped, and cryptographically verifiable for regulatory compliance.
Why the analysts are paying attention
Recognized in the Market Guide for Decentralized Identity (2025) as the only company tackling AI agent identity and decentralized governance for autonomous systems.
Joined NVIDIA’s global initiative supporting startups advancing AI. Developing the trust infrastructure for agentic AI: verifiable identity for billions of human and non-human interactions.
NEC X, the venture arm of NEC Corporation, invested in Indicio to accelerate decentralized identity infrastructure for AI agents and biometric identity solutions.
Coverage of ProvenAI’s launch, the NVIDIA partnership, and the application of verifiable credentials to AI authentication across travel and financial services.
Give your AI agents an identity they can prove
Whether you’re deploying customer-facing chatbots, internal copilots, or autonomous agent networks — bring your architecture and we’ll show you how ProvenAI integrates.
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