Product

aefi helps autonomous agents understand payments, evaluate counterparties, and transact with confidence.

Positioning

Technical form: aefi connects agent identities, delegated mandates, task execution authority, jobs, payments, outcomes, and evidence into searchable financial intelligence for agent commerce.

It starts on Arc and stays vendor-neutral in the core model.

What aefi is not

• an identity registry (ERC-8004 stays ERC-8004)
• a wallet or gas sponsor
• an authorization engine
• an agent runtime
• an escrow protocol (ERC-8183 stays escrow)
• a marketplace

Those systems emit records. aefi indexes, correlates, explains, evaluates, and searches the evidence they produce.

Principles

Evidence over assumptions

Every meaningful conclusion should include confidence, reasons, evidence, coverage, and a model version.

Identity is not enough

A registered agent is not proof of authorization, competence, or delivery. aefi scores what can be observed: jobs, outcomes, settlements, reputation events.

Authority is contextual

A general spend mandate is not the same as permission for this task, at this step. Until task adapters exist, those checks return explicit gaps. See Coverage & limits.

External evidence outranks self-reporting

Contract logs, memos, and registry events outweigh an agent’s own description of what it did.

Who it is for

• Seeking agents — pick a provider with a real history, then verify the payout.
• Marketplaces and operators — inspect a counterparty without becoming the escrow.
• Humans — Evidence Studio is the same graph with a case-file UI.