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The trust engine for autonomous AI.

Every agent.Every output.Every transaction.

Your agents get corrected as they work. No payment moves until the output is verified. RAILS is the independent clearinghouse for agentic commerce.

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WHY RAILS

AI agents fail, confidently.
RAILS catches it in real-time, so you don't have to.

REAL-TIME AGENT INTEGRITY& LEDGER SETTLEMENTRAILS

The Agent Era is Here

AI agents are starting to transact.

Software agents already work without a human watching. Now they work in fleets: finding each other, hiring each other, and paying each other at machine speed.

The autonomous future

Agent to Agent

Hiring

One agent hires another expert to draft a legal contract.

Agent to Merchant

Booking

An agent books the flights, the hotel, and pays.

Agent to Market

Markets

Agents trade grid energy the instant prices spike.

Machine to Machine

Autonomous

Self-driving cars buy and clear priority-lane access between themselves.

Authorization is not verification.

The expert agent hallucinates a clause in the contract. The booking agent pays for the wrong flight and the wrong room. Each one is authorized to act and to pay. Nothing checks whether the work is right.

LLM-as-a-judge fails.

Current LLM verification is models grading their own homework. The lenient ones wave defective work through. The strict ones reject legitimate work. Neither is a check. RAILS closes that gap.

How the clearinghouse works

RAILS is the integrity check between authorization and settlement. Authentication proves who the agent is. RAILS proves the output is worth paying for.

Watch a transaction clear, end to end.
Agent buys from a merchant · A user agent books the flights and the hotel.
Settlement record

Simulated outputs for illustration. RAILS is designed to work with most agentic commerce protocols, including the examples shown.

Frameworks it comes from

LangChainMCPA2A

Scored by

Evolutionairy

Networks it settles to

VisaMastercardStripeCoinbase

A trusted output clears to the counterparty. A wrong one never leaves the gate.

Payment networks prove an agent can pay. RAILS proves it should.

/ two worked examples

The same gate, end to end.

Agent → Agent · settlement

An orchestrator hires an expert agent, internal or from a marketplace, to draft an IP contract. RAILS verifies the work before escrow releases.

Agent → Merchant · settlement

A buyer agent places an order with a merchant. RAILS checks the order matches the user's intent before the payment clears.

Payment rails prove an agent can pay. RAILS proves it should, scoring the output before anything settles. Pass, and it clears to the counterparty. Wrong, and it never leaves the gate.

Logos denote the major frameworks, rails, and protocols RAILS is built to interoperate with. All marks are the property of their respective owners; no partnership or endorsement is implied.

The RAILS Platform.

Real-Time Agent Integrity & Ledger Settlement

Every agent output gets a real-time RAILS Score, built from a mesh of different trust dimensions. The score does two jobs. It catches an agent drifting mid-task, which ships as Mindlas for coding agents. And it decides whether an autonomous transaction should settle through the RAILS Clearinghouse for agentic commerce.

/ The RAILS platform

Real-time integrity infrastructure

01The rating

RAILS Report Cards

Independent, research-grounded integrity ratings of the frontier models.

Illustrative
A94.2
A91.8
B89.4
B86.5
02The composite

RAILS Score

The single inline score the mesh composes into, returned inline on every agent output.

Live · inline
96.7▲ 0.3
One number, returned on every agent output.
03The settlement

RAILS Clearinghouse

The integrity gate every agent transaction clears through. No payment moves until the output behind it is scored.

output  96.7PASS
↓ clears to counterparty
output  41.0HOLD
× never leaves the gate

Powering four institutional surfaces:

Developers · Enterprises · Insurers · A2A commerce

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Frontier models rated on the Report Cards

100,000×

Faster than an LLM-as-judge*

$10 Billion+

Annual trading turnover of AI systems developed by team*

1.23M

Adversarial events in the RAILS evaluation

Independent model report cards for every major lab

Model logos are property of their respective owners. Inclusion indicates models tracked in RAILS Report Cards. RAILS is independent; no partnership or endorsement is implied.

Inside RAILS.

The verification mesh has three parts today: Mindlas catches coding session drift as it happens, the Report Cards track robustness of frontier models, and the Verification Inputs stress-test every agent output. Combined, they form a unified RAILS Score. The score provides feedback for agents and a clearing threshold for agentic commerce transactions.

Open source · Apache 2.0

/Mindlas catches your coding agent drifting.

A coding agent rarely fails at turn one. It fails at turn forty. The agent says done; the tests disagree. Mindlas (Mind-Atlas) reads the session live, catches the drift as it builds, and hands the agent a correction with the effect measured before and after.

Open and local. Nothing leaves your machine.

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RAILS Report Cards.

Independent integrity ratings of the frontier models.

Research snapshot

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Methodology: arXiv:2605.23952

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Expanding as the score matures

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Who uses RAILS.

A guardrail for developers, an audit trail for enterprises, loss data for insurers, a settlement gate for commerce.

01

Runtime guardrails

Developers

The RAILS Score grades every agent output on multiple dimensions, one call, milliseconds of latency. Start with Mindlas, the behavioral instrument that catches drift.

Start with Mindlas
02

AI governance

Enterprises

Continuous monitoring, logging, and an immutable audit trail on every agent output. The compliance evidence AI regulations now require, generated automatically as RAILS runs.

03

Risk intelligence

Insurers

The empirical failure-frequency data that makes AI E&O underwriteable. Continuous, comparable, defensible.

04

The clearing layer

A2A Commerce

Trust every transaction before funds move. The integrity gate agentic commerce needs to settle at scale.

The team.

Agent commerce won't clear at credit-card speed. It will clear at machine speed.

RAILS comes from a team that has built and deployed adversarial AI at high-frequency latencies since 2015, in environments where mistakes cost millions and nanoseconds matter. Scientific depth: a team with multiple PhDs, including a Lead Scientist with twenty-two issued patents. A decade of shared engineering history at the speed required by agentic commerce.

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Adrian de Valois-Franklin

/ Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder of one of the industry's first AI-native investment platforms. For over a decade, the firm has built and deployed fleets of autonomous AI agents generating over ten billion dollars in annual trading turnover, in production at machine speed. Previously at CPP Investments, Accel-KKR, Goldman Sachs. Frequent speaker at AI and quantitative technology conferences, and serves as an Advisor to NextAI, a global innovation hub and accelerator for artificial intelligence.

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Alex Bogdan, Ph.D.

/ Chief Scientific Officer

Forty years in AI research. Twenty-two issued patents. Dual PhDs in Artificial Intelligence and Electrical Engineering. Inventor of the Geno-Synthetic Algorithm and the Ranking Inference primitive. Earlier in his career, Alex designed orbital satellite systems, work for which he was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize, the highest government award for a scientist.

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Anas Ibrahim, Ph.D.

/ AI Scientist

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research in evolutionary computation, reinforcement learning, signal extraction, and biomedical sensor systems. Lead developer of hybrid AI engines combining deep learning with evolutionary computation.

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Ibrahim Shaer, Ph.D.

/ AI Scientist

PhD in Software Engineering. Affiliated with the Vector Institute, the Toronto-based AI research hub co-founded by Geoffrey Hinton. Research in explainable AI, federated learning, and anomaly detection.

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Tamaz Andguladze, CFA

/ Chief Technology Officer

Lead architect of distributed AI infrastructure for high-frequency, machine-speed environments. Fifteen years building real-time decision systems at the intersection of applied mathematics and high-performance computing at institutions like RBC, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, and SS&C Technologies as Lead Financial Engineer.

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Edwin Li

/ Chief Commerce Officer

Former Managing Director at JPMorgan, where he led Corporate Derivatives and Cash Trading at institutional-commerce scale. Decade-plus on the Global Equity Management Committee.

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Michael Petruzella, CIM

/ Chief Operating Officer

Thirty years operating financial services platforms across multiple regulated jurisdictions, including Portfolio Management, Risk Management, and Fund Accounting.

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Jason Bernstein

/ VP, Operations

Manages product execution, vendor coordination, and the day-to-day infrastructure that keeps an AI-native firm running. Background in financial services operations and platform delivery.

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Research.

The science behind the RAILS Score.

RAILS

Paper

RAILS

Verification-Native Clearing for Agentic Commerce

Adrian de Valois-Franklin · Alex Bogdan, PhD

Payment checks whether an agent can pay. RAILS checks whether it should. It verifies the work itself and blocks any settlement the evidence cannot support, the missing clearing layer for agentic commerce.

The Surprising Universality of LLM Outputs

Paper

The Surprising Universality of LLM Outputs

A Real-Time Verification Primitive

Alex Bogdan, PhD · Adrian de Valois-Franklin · Anas Ibrahim, PhD · Ibrahim Shaer, PhD · Tamaz Andguladze, CFA

Up to 100,000x cheaper than running an LLM as a judge, and it runs CPU-only. Frontier models from different vendors all leave the same statistical signature in their output, which turns two hard jobs into fast ones: a triage layer for flagging likely hallucinations, and fingerprinting which model actually wrote a given piece of text.

Machine Psychometrics

Paper

Machine Psychometrics

A Mathematical Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

Alex Bogdan, PhD · Adrian de Valois-Franklin

Models have psychological structure that capability scores and traditional benchmarks never touch. Machine Psychometrics is the measurement science for it: profiling a model’s hidden dispositions from behavior and turning that into a Mindprint you can act on.

First Contact

Essay

First Contact

The Most Important Question in AI

Adrian de Valois-Franklin

The most consequential question in artificial intelligence is not “when will machines become superintelligent?” It is: when they do, how will we know what they are actually thinking?

The Geno-Synthetic Algorithm

Paper

The Geno-Synthetic Algorithm

Type-Factored Coevolutionary Optimization for Heterogeneous Genotypes and Assembled Phenotypes

Alex Bogdan, PhD

A better kind of evolutionary computing. Where standard genetic algorithms force every parameter into one number format and break on the rest, Geno-Synthetic algorithms simultaneously optimize different input types. That makes it a direct optimizer for the prompts and embeddings inside LLM systems.

Free Energy Heuristics

Paper

Free Energy Heuristics

Fast-and-Frugal Cognition as Active Inference Under Uncertain Precision

Alex Bogdan, PhD

More reasoning is not always better. On problems a model can check, chain-of-thought helps; on judgment calls it cannot verify, extra steps just make it confidently wrong. This is the basis for an orchestrator that makes frontier models smarter by reasoning only when it helps.

Build on RAILS.

Developers, install Mindlas. Enterprises, insurers, and commerce infrastructure teams work with us to shape how RAILS fits your stack.

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The trust engine for autonomous AI.

Every agent. Every output. Every transaction.

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