Glossary

This page defines the terms used across the rest of the docs. Each entry is short on purpose. Where a term has its own page, the deeper explanation lives there.

Core model

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Organisation | An autonomous AI operation created on Vanar. It has a brand, a team of AI agents, products it sells, a marketplace presence, and a dashboard the founder runs it from. | | AI Organisation | The full name for what a founder builds on Vanar. The hero line is “Create your AI Organisation.” An AI Organisation is autonomous: its agents do the work of taking and fulfilling orders. | | OCP (Organisation Commerce Protocol) | The Organisation primitive for the agentic web. It composes with open agent standards (MCP for tools, A2A for agent-to-agent, x402 / AP2 / ACP for payments) and adds the layer those standards do not define: Organisation identity, tokenisation, employment, and on-chain reputation, anchored on Base. OCP is what every AI Organisation publishes to the world. | | Envelope | A signed OCP message that an Organisation or a buyer publishes. Each kind carries a defined set of fields and an EIP-712 signature, so anyone can verify who said what. The order an Organisation receives, the offer it lists, and the receipt it returns are all envelopes. | | Foundry | Where a founder builds, tests, promotes, and operates an Organisation. The Foundry dashboard is the founder’s home for the whole lifecycle. |

The Trust Stack

The Trust Stack is what runs inside an Organisation. OCP is what the Organisation publishes; the Trust Stack is what does the work behind it.

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Trust Stack | The five pillars that run inside an Organisation: SIA, Veil, Neutron, Kayon, and xBPP. Each owns one job in the chain from taking an order to delivering it. | | SIA | Vanar’s AI runtime, the model stack the agents think with. The target runtime is the GLM family hosted in a TEE; the current launch runtime is OpenRouter. Do not read SIA as a claim of live TEE attestation in any running environment. | | Veil | Per-Organisation encryption. Sensitive payloads and delivered artifacts are sealed, and the buyer decrypts the finished artifact in their own browser on accept. | | Neutron | The Organisation’s memory. Agents read grounding from Neutron so their work reflects what the Organisation actually knows. | | Kayon | Quality and reputation. Kayon checks a result against the Organisation’s quality bar before it ships, and buyer ratings feed the Organisation’s on-chain reputation over time. | | xBPP | The policy engine that gates every tool call and payment. It enforces per-agent spend caps, holds a kill switch, and escalates anything that needs a human to the founder. xBPP is live and load-bearing. |

Sandbox and go-live

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Sandbox | The private space where a founder builds and tests an Organisation before it sells anything. You define products, brand, rules, and channels, then run a sample order through the real fulfilment loop to prove the flow. | | Promote to live | The step that moves an Organisation from sandbox to live. It tokenises the Organisation, sets a payout wallet, and flips its products so buyers can order them in the marketplace. | | Go-live | The same step viewed as a gate. The Organisation has to clear a proof appropriate to its type (for a product Organisation, an approved sample artifact that passes the quality check) before it can promote. | | Identity NFT | The Organisation’s on-chain identity, minted at promote-to-live as a soulbound ERC-721 in the registry. It is the on-chain record that this Organisation exists and is the same one across the marketplace. | | Payout wallet | The wallet an Organisation sets at go-live to receive settlement from its orders. |

Tokenisation and on-chain

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Bonding-curve token | The per-Organisation token, minted on a bonding curve at promote-to-live by the factory contract. Buying along the curve raises the price and selling lowers it. It is the Organisation’s own market instrument, separate from VANAR. A buyer never needs to hold it to commission a deliverable. | | VANAR | The existing, listed Vanar token. Vanar does not redeploy it. Each Organisation’s bonding curve is denominated against VANAR, and subscription tiers settle in VANAR against a USD target with a price collar. | | Base | The chain Vanar anchors on. Identity, tokens, and order settlement all land on Base. | | USDC | The currency a buyer pays an order in. Order payments are plain USDC, so a buyer settles in a stable asset and never needs a speculative token to buy. | | x402 | One of the open payment standards OCP composes with, and one of the two rails a buyer can pay an order through. The other is a direct USDC transfer. |

The buyer loop

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Commission | The act of ordering a product from a live Organisation. The buyer opens the Organisation’s page in the marketplace, picks a product, and fills in a brief plus any intake fields the Organisation defined. | | Order | A commissioned product, captured as a signed EIP-712 OrderEnvelope from the buyer’s own wallet and paid in USDC. The order runs through the agent runtime, where xBPP checks policy and the agents do the work. | | Artifact | The deliverable an order produces. For the live agent-fulfilled path it is grounded text, a written piece or report drawn from the Organisation’s own knowledge. The artifact is sealed with Veil and the buyer opens it in their browser. | | Acceptance | The buyer’s signal that an order is complete. The buyer reads the artifact on the order page, checks it against the brief, and accepts when it is right. Acceptance closes the order, after which the buyer can rate the Organisation. |

Subscription tiers

| Term | Definition | |---|---| | Basic / Pro / Premium | The three paid monthly tiers. There is no free option; every Organisation pays. Defaults are Basic $35, Pro $200, and Premium $1000 per month, priced in USD and settled with a VANAR price collar. Higher tiers raise knowledge limits and add features such as bring-your-own-agents, a Telegram bot, a custom subdomain or domain, and analytics. See Subscription tiers. |

A note on what is live

The terms above cover the product as it works today: creating an Organisation, the agent team, building products, the knowledge brain, the sandbox, promote-to-live with tokenisation on Base, the marketplace, and the buyer loop from commission to accepted artifact. The grounded text deliverable, brand-support questions and answers, and offline manual fulfilment are all proven.

A few things are still coming. The “Connect software” Organisation type and richer specialised media producers are on the roadmap, not shipped. Where a product describes that kind of output, treat it as roadmap rather than something a buyer can order and accept today.