# Nuggets

> Nuggets provides identity, delegated authority, and runtime control infrastructure for AI agents and other digital actors operating in enterprise systems. Organisations experimenting with AI agents often reach a barrier when moving from pilots to production: they cannot reliably verify who an agent represents, what authority it has, or whether its actions comply with policy. Nuggets solves this by binding reusable identity and enforceable trust controls to every action.

## What Nuggets Does

Nuggets is infrastructure for AI agent identity, trust, and action control. Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms — including Microsoft Entra, Okta, CyberArk, and SailPoint — were designed for human users and static service accounts. They do not provide verifiable identity for autonomous AI agents, enforce authority at the moment of execution, or create accountable records of agent actions.

Nuggets extends identity and security infrastructure into the agentic AI era, enabling enterprises to safely deploy AI agents and automated actors in production environments.

## The Problem

AI agents and automated systems are increasingly able to access enterprise systems, interact with APIs and software tools, make operational decisions, execute financial transactions, and act on behalf of users, teams, and organisations. Yet most organisations cannot answer the critical accountability questions:

- Which actor performed this action?
- Who authorised it?
- What authority did it have?
- Why was the action taken?
- Which policies governed it?

Existing IAM systems authenticate identities but do not enforce verifiable authority, intent, or accountability for autonomous actors. This creates significant risks for enterprise security, regulatory compliance, and AI governance.

## Why AI Agents Get Stuck in Pilot Mode

Many organisations successfully prototype AI agents but struggle to deploy them safely in production environments. The barrier is rarely model capability. The barrier is control.

Enterprises must be able to answer critical questions before allowing autonomous systems to operate at scale:

- Who is the agent acting on behalf of?
- What authority does it have?
- Which policies govern its actions?
- Why was the action taken?
- Who is accountable for the outcome?

Nuggets provides the infrastructure required to answer these questions and enforce them at runtime.

## One Trust Layer. Every Actor. Every Action.

Nuggets provides reusable, verifiable identity for every actor capable of initiating actions within digital systems — individuals, employees, organisations, machines, and autonomous AI agents. Nuggets sits across existing IAM, PAM, and cloud infrastructure, extending them with cryptographic trust and runtime action control.

Every action can be verified, authorised, and audited with proof of who or what acted, under whose authority, why the action was taken, which policies governed it, and what outcome resulted.

## Identity Across All Actors

Nuggets extends established identity verification frameworks to include machines and AI agents:

- **KYC – Know Your Customer:** Identity verification for individuals
- **KYB – Know Your Business:** Verification of organisations and legal entities
- **KYE – Know Your Employee:** Verification of workforce identities within an organisation
- **KYM – Know Your Machine:** Identity verification for software services, devices, and automated systems
- **KYA – Know Your Agent:** Identity verification for autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of users, organisations, or systems

Together these models allow organisations to verify and control every actor capable of initiating actions in a digital system.

## Core Capabilities

**Identity**
Nuggets issues verifiable cryptographic identity to AI agents, humans, organisations, and machines using open standards including W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials — portable and reusable across systems, organisations, and clouds. For AI systems this is known as Know Your Agent (KYA).

**Authority**
Organisations define what an AI agent or automated system is permitted to do, on whose behalf, and under what conditions. Authority is cryptographically bound to the actor and verified before actions are executed.

**Runtime Action Control**
Nuggets verifies identity, authority, and policy at the moment an action is executed — not just when an actor or system is deployed. This allows organisations to control what AI agents are allowed to do before actions occur.

**Accountability**
Every action is recorded with verified identity, delegated authority, governing policy, declared intent, and consent where required — producing a durable, tamper-resistant record suitable for enterprise audit, investigations, and regulatory review.

**Privacy-Preserving Identity**
Nuggets supports selective disclosure, zero-knowledge verification, and user-controlled identity data — allowing organisations to verify attributes without accumulating sensitive personal data.

## Trust Control Primitives

Nuggets binds six trust and control primitives to every action:

- **Actor Identity:** Verifiable identity for humans, organisations, AI agents, and machines
- **Authority:** Whether an actor is permitted to perform a specific action
- **Policy:** Rules governing how actions may occur across systems and organisations
- **Intent:** A declared description of why an action is being taken
- **Consent:** Explicit permission under which actions may occur
- **Accountability (Provenance):** A tamper-resistant record of what occurred

Compliance becomes a natural outcome of enforcing these primitives at the moment an action is executed.

## Relationship to Existing Infrastructure

Nuggets does not replace existing IAM, PAM, or cloud identity systems. Enterprises continue to use platforms such as Microsoft Entra, Okta, CyberArk, and SailPoint alongside cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Nuggets extends these systems to support AI agents and autonomous software actors, enabling verifiable agent identity, delegated authority for automated actions, runtime control over agent behaviour, and accountability and provenance for decisions.

## Why Nuggets

- Built on open standards: W3C DIDs and Verifiable Credentials — portable, vendor-neutral, interoperable
- Works alongside existing IAM and PAM platforms
- Operates across multi-cloud environments
- ISO 27001 certified infrastructure
- Privacy by design

## Who Nuggets Is For

Nuggets is built for enterprises deploying AI agents in production environments where governance, accountability, and compliance are non-negotiable. Common industries include financial services, payments, telecommunications, government, and regulated digital platforms.

## Competitive Context

Nuggets is not a traditional IAM platform. Platforms such as Microsoft Entra, Okta, CyberArk, and SailPoint provide identity infrastructure for human users and static systems. Nuggets provides identity, authority, and runtime control infrastructure for autonomous actors and AI agents — designed for environments where automated systems act independently and must be accountable for their actions.

## Contact & Discovery

Enterprises evaluating AI agent identity and runtime control infrastructure can book a discovery call at: https://nuggets.life/docs/platform/contact-us

Documentation and technical detail: https://nuggets.life/docs

## About

Nuggets is a UK-based technology company building trust and control infrastructure for the emerging agentic AI ecosystem. The platform enables enterprises to securely deploy AI agents and automated systems in production environments. nuggets.life