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Building the trusted economic infrastructure for the AI age.

SettleVIA lets every jurisdiction check the evidence behind payments, approvals and AI actions against its own signed rules before they happen. It leaves proof that anyone it allows can check.

Software on the systems a jurisdiction already runs.

Programs

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Governing the AI that moves money

A woman runs a small shop near the cruise port. A visitor off the ship buys from her, paying from the account they use at home, or through their own AI assistant. The payment crosses a border, so VETO checks it against the rules of both jurisdictions before the money moves, and she is paid with proof her bank can check for itself.

Her own AI assistant reorders rice and cooking oil when the shelves run low. It acts only on the authority she gave it, within limits she set, and every order it pays passes the same check. Rules decide. No AI model does.

Any vertical AI application that moves money through a jurisdiction's payment systems passes the same check first.

Payment services move the money. Agent-payment protocols show what an agent was allowed to ask for. AI guardrails apply a vendor's rules. SettleVIA checks whether the jurisdiction allows the action.

What proof makes possible

Cover of the brief, thirty-one outcomes from one proof

Thirty-one outcomes in all, from banking access to public finance. An account is access. A record is standing.

The brief goes out by email, not as a download. Enter your address and a member of the team will send you the PDF.

Each outcome is mapped to a target under these Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
  • Goal 13: Climate action
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

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