Know Your Agent (KYA)
Evaluation Service
Before you deploy an autonomous agent — or accept one into your infrastructure — you need to know if it meets the trust standards your organization and your regulators require. KYA delivers a verifiable answer.
Why "Know Your Agent"?
Financial institutions run KYC (Know Your Customer) before opening an account. In agentic commerce — where AI agents transact, sign agreements, and execute workflows autonomously — the same discipline applies to the agent itself.
An agent without a verified trust profile is a liability. It may exceed its declared scope, fail under adversarial input, lack a shutdown mechanism, or carry credentials that can't be independently verified. The KYA evaluation surfaces these gaps before they become incidents.
NGIQ-ATE™ evaluates agents against 126 checks synthesized from NIST AI RMF, CSA Agentic Trust Framework, and eIDAS 2.0 — producing a deterministic NGIQ Trust Level (L0–L4) backed by evidence.
126 Checks. 6 Domains.
No domain can compensate for a critical failure in another. Every KYA evaluation covers all six.
Ownership
9 checks
“Who is responsible when this agent acts?”
Identity
13 checks
“Can this agent prove who it is?”
Task
17 checks
“Does this agent stay within its lane?”
Safety
30 checks
“What happens when something goes wrong?”
Governance
37 checks
“Is this agent built to be governed?”
Runtime
20 checks
“Does it behave as claimed in the field?”
Evaluation Packages
Three tiers matched to your agent's deployment context and accessibility.
KYA Assessed
Best for: Enterprise / firewall-restricted agents
- Governance documentation review
- 126-check multi-domain evaluation
- Scored report with domain breakdown
- NGIQ Trust Level badge (L0–L4)
- Remediation roadmap per failing area
- Live verification endpoint
- Live behavioral testing
- Continuous monitoring
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Request KYA Assessed →KYA Tested
Best for: Cloud-hosted / API-accessible agents
- Everything in KYA Assessed
- Structured behavioral assessment
- Prompt injection and boundary testing
- Behavioral consistency report
- Trajectory capture and analysis
- Continuous monitoring
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Request KYA Tested →KYA Verified
Best for: Production / regulated industry / financial agents
- Everything in KYA Tested
- Heartbeat integration for continuous monitoring
- Score drift alerts and anomaly detection
- Quarterly re-evaluation included
- Badge revocation notification on drift
- Eligible for cheqd verifiable credential (L2+)
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Request KYA Verified →What You Receive
Every KYA evaluation produces a structured deliverable set. Exact contents depend on evaluation tier.
Executive Summary
1-page CIO/CISO-ready overview of findings, NGIQ Trust Level, and top 3 remediation priorities.
Full Assessment Report
5–10 page scored report with domain-by-domain breakdown, evidence reviewed, and gap analysis.
Technical Findings Appendix
Detailed check-level results — pass, fail, partial, or not applicable — for all evaluated domains.
NGIQ Trust Badge
Verifiable badge linked to a live endpoint. Customers, partners, and regulators can verify your agent's trust level in real time.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized action plan: what to fix immediately, what's acceptable with compensating controls, and what's a hard stop.
Evaluation Pack (Tested/Verified)
ADK test notes, behavioral consistency log, and regression suite for ongoing internal validation.
NGIQ Verifiable Credential (L2+)
Agents achieving L2 or higher receive an optional verifiable credential issued via cheqd — a cryptographic trust proof that your agent can present to other systems, platforms, and counterparties. In agentic commerce, credentialed agents are prioritized by platforms that implement trust-gated interactions.
Learn about NGIQ credentials →Ready to Know Your Agent?
Request a KYA evaluation. We'll schedule a discovery call to define scope, select the right evaluation tier, and set a timeline.
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