Identity, provenance, and boundary layers for autonomous systems.
Kakunin brings KYC to AI agents with cryptographic identity and audit trails.
Kakunin is KYC compliance infrastructure for AI agents. Issue X.509 identities, monitor behaviour in real time, and generate regulator-ready audit trails. Delegate scoped authority, score what your agent does and says, and prove control on any framework.
FIED
From zero to auditable in one afternoon.
Register & Certify
Call kkn.agents.certify(). AWS KMS issues an X.509 certificate binding your agent’s identity, operator, and permitted actions. Done in < 3 seconds.
Stream Events
Every agent action — API call, decision, transaction — hits the ingest endpoint. 1,000 events/s, p99 200ms. Immutable audit log builds automatically.
Score & Watch
Behavioral drift detection runs continuously. Content-risk scoring flags what the agent said, not just what it did. Rolling 30-day trust score. Auto-revoke at 0.85.
Prove & Report
One API call generates a regulator-ready compliance report — mapped to NIST AI RMF, MiCA, ISO 27001, or any framework you answer to. PDF + JSON. Signed.
Deep-dive guides for
regulated AI teams.
Start with the pages that answer the questions buyers, engineers, and regulators ask most often.
Eight distinct roles.
One unified trust plane.
Compliance, engineering, operations, API platforms, infrastructure, the boardroom, AI startup founders, and security engineers all rely on Kakunin — securing every touchpoint of the agentic lifecycle with cryptographic trust.

Every agent action is logged, timestamped, and cryptographically signed. Satisfy logging and traceability mandates natively. 100% audit readiness with zero compliance violations under the EU AI Act and MiCA.
Our regulators verify every decision in ten seconds — with cryptographic proof.— Clara · Head of Compliance · Tier-1 EU Bank

Integrate in minutes via decorators like @verify_agent_scope. Short-lived ephemeral certificates eliminate static key leakage risks with localized edge verification (<5ms latency overhead).
Agents that stay in lane. A kill switch that works when we need it to.— Devlin · CTO · Payment Infrastructure

Real-time risk scoring checks agent behavior dynamically. Catch loops and anomalies before they blow your budget or trigger external rate limits. Revoke one agent without affecting the fleet.
Keep agent operations cost-effective. Prevent runaway loops and budget blowout automatically.— Omar · Operations Director · Customer Support Fleet

Differentiate benign agents from malicious scrape bots at the border. Validate X.509 credentials and authorize granular agent scopes using high-performance edge gateway plugins with <2ms verification latency.
Validate agent identity at the gateway. Block unauthorized bots before they degrade our APIs.— Alex · API Platform Lead · API-First SaaS

Prevent secret leaks in LLM memory. Bind dynamic agent sessions to native Row-Level Security (RLS) policies using official adapters. Zero-trust hosting for production-grade agent platforms.
Zero database keys exposed in agent runtimes. Enforced at the RLS database layer.— Ian · Cloud Platform Architect · Developer Cloud

Deploy autonomous workflows 3x faster than competitors. Remove the regulatory roadblock to AI adoption by presenting cryptographically defensible proof of safety to your board and shareholders.
3× faster operations. Defensible to the regulator. Available today.— CEO · Regulated Enterprise

Every enterprise security review asks the same question. Kakunin gives you a one-line answer: cryptographic identity, behavioral monitoring, and a compliance report on demand. Ship the deal. Don't lose it to governance.
Stopped losing deals to “we need to review your AI governance” — answered it in the next call.— Founder · AI Agent Startup

Behavioral logs tell you what happened. Content-risk scoring tells you what was said. Catch prompt injections, off-scope outputs, and policy violations before they become incidents. Forensic export with HMAC signatures for incident response.
First platform that watches both the action log and the output content. That’s the full picture.— Security Lead · Fintech Platform
shipping agents into regulated markets
Your competitor is deploying AI agents. Race starts now.
AI agents market: $5.4B (2024) → $32.8B (2028), 40%+ CAGR. Every security review now asks the same question: how do you govern your agents?
You can't match competitor speed without autonomous systems. You can't deploy them without proving — to a buyer, an auditor, or yourself — that they stay in scope.
Trust. Proof. Compliance.
In that order.
Enterprise buyers lead with risk, end with compliance. Kakunin proves your agent stayed in scope, behaved as expected, and made auditable decisions. All via documented REST API.
Cryptographic Boundaries
X.509 certificates bind agent identity to financial scope (€X max transaction size). Scope is tamper-proof, encoded in the cert. Agents can't exceed limits even if code is compromised. Private keys live in AWS KMS only — never in plaintext. Counterparties verify cryptographically.
Post-Hoc Proof
Every transaction is signed by the agent (via KMS), timestamped, and logged immutably. Behavioral drift detection flags when agent deviates from baseline. Auto-revocation fires at risk threshold. Regulators, auditors, or counterparties verify: agent did X at Y time, signed with cert Z. Immutable chain of custody.
Regulatory Reports in Seconds
Auto-generated compliance reports map to MiCA Articles 67–75 and EU AI Act Annex III. Includes agent identity, scope, behavioral boundaries, decisions, and drift detection. PDF (regulator-ready) + JSON (downstream pipelines). Signed, watermarked, audit trail included.
READY
Score What Your Agent Says.
Content-risk scoring evaluates agent output — not just actions. Flags harmful, prohibited, or off-scope language per EU AI Act Art. 5. Every output gets a risk score (0–1). High scores block the response and write to the audit log. The feature that separates Kakunin from every cert-issuer and model-governance tool.
API-first. SDK-fast.
Every feature accessible via REST or the TypeScript SDK. OpenAPI 3.0 spec, webhooks with HMAC signatures, sandbox mode, exponential backoff baked in. Drop it into a Vercel app and certify an agent in seven lines of code.
Banks and governments have relied on X.509 for 30+ years.
Now your AI agents do too.
X.509 is the cryptographic backbone of global financial systems — issuing bank certificates, signing securities trades, securing payment networks. It's the institutional standard that regulators understand and counterparties trust without question.
Kakunin brings this proven, 30-year-old infrastructure directly to AI agents. Not a new standard. Not an experimental framework. The same PKI that secures trillions of dollars now secures your autonomous systems.
Rolling 30-day risk scoring.
Auto-revocation in < 60 seconds.
Every agent will eventually drift. A model update introduces new behaviors. A prompt injection changes reasoning. A hallucination alters decisions. Kakunin's rolling 30-day risk scoring catches these deviations before they become breaches.
When risk crosses your threshold (default: 0.85), the certificate is cryptographically revoked. No manual intervention. No waiting for a human to notice. No audit trail gaps. Sub-60-second SLA. Your webhook fires. Your compliance team is notified. The next API call from that agent fails.
No other platform offers behavioral monitoring andcryptographic revocation in production. Human KYC can't detect agents. Model governance works pre-deployment. Kakunin is the only system watching agents post-deployment, scoring them continuously, and enforcing boundaries in real time.
Anyone can confirm an agent's identity. No account.
A regulator, an auditor, or a counterparty hits one URL with a serial number. Sub-500ms response. Tenant-isolated. Tamper-evident.
The same endpoint your stack uses to verify inbound agent-to-agent calls.
$ curl https://api.kakunin.ai/v1/verify/c4f9-17a2-6b8e # Public endpoint — no API key required. HTTP/2 200 · 142ms · cached:eu-fra-1
{
"status": "active",
"serial": "c4f9-17a2-6b8e",
"agent_name": "Invoicing Bot · v3.2",
"operator_org": "Acme Crypto",
"permitted_actions": ["read:invoices", "write:drafts"],
"model_hash": "sha256:8f3c…2a91",
"valid_from": "2026-04-11T09:23:14Z",
"valid_until": "2027-04-11T09:23:14Z",
"issuer": "Kakunin Certificate Authority",
"revocation_reason": null
}Every certified agent gets a reachable inbox.
A verifiable email address tied to a real cryptographic identity. Regulators can write to your agent. Counterparties can request audit excerpts. Every inbound and outbound message lands in the immutable audit log.
Provisioned automatically at certificate issuance. Deactivated on revocation.
See what every agent did,
as it happens.
Sub-2-second event latency. Color-coded risk bands. Click any event for full scope rationale, OpenRouter-narrated reasoning, and the underlying certificate.
Risk scores roll over 30 days. Cross 0.85 — auto-revocation fires within 60 seconds. Webhook lands on your Slack before the next API call completes.
Mapped article-by-article.
Every feature maps to a specific regulatory clause. Use these mappings inside your own compliance filings — supervisor-ready language, no rewrite required.
Anywhere an agent
touches a regulated workflow.
The same primitives that secure a crypto exchange's trading bot also secure a hospital's diagnostic assistant and a customs broker's filing agent. One platform — many supervisor regimes.
Quantitative trading agents
Exchanges verify bot identity cryptographically before executing a trade. Behavioral monitoring catches compromised agents in milliseconds.
AML & fraud-detection agents
God-mode access agents lose their certificate the instant their behavior crosses 0.85 rolling risk — before the breach completes.
Diagnostic assistants on EHR
Permitted actions are encoded in the certificate. Read-only agents physically cannot mutate. HIPAA audit trail comes for free.
Document-review agents
Cryptographic chain of custody for every file an AI parsed inside an M&A data room. Court-admissible audit trail by default.
Automated customs brokers
AI signs customs declarations with its KMS-bound private key. Customs authorities verify the cryptographic signature directly.
Visa & tax processing agents
EU AI Act-compliant reporting for any agent making citizen-facing decisions. Transparency built in, not bolted on.
Seven lines.
One certified agent.
Fully typed TypeScript SDK with Zod-validated responses, automatic retry, webhook signature verification, and a sandbox mode. Python SDK ships V1.1.
import { Kakunin } from "@kakunin/sdk"; const kkn = new Kakunin({ apiKey: process.env.KAKUNIN_API_KEY }); // 1. Register the agent const agent = await kkn.agents.create({ name: "Invoicing Bot v3.2", operatorOrg: "Acme Crypto", modelHash: "sha256:8f3c…2a91", permittedActions: ["read:invoices", "write:drafts"], }); // 2. Issue an X.509 certificate · < 3s end-to-end const cert = await kkn.agents.certify(agent.id); // 3. Stream each agent action await kkn.events.ingest({ agentId: agent.id, actionType: "transaction_initiated", details: { amount: 840, currency: "EUR" }, }); // → risk_score: 0.12 · band: low · webhook fired
Type safety ZOD
Every response is Zod-validated. Your IDE catches typos before your CI does.
Sandbox mode FREE
kak_test_… keys hit a real sandbox CA. Issue 100 test certs/day at no cost.
Webhook helper HMAC
kkn.webhooks.verify() handles signature checks so you can't get it wrong.
Retry & queue SDK
Exponential backoff on 5xx, client-side buffering on 429. Zero events lost on rate-limit spikes.
OTLP export NEW
Ships agent telemetry to Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb, and Splunk via OpenTelemetry. No vendor lock-in.
GitHub Actions gate NEW
Block deploys when agent risk score exceeds threshold. CI-native — one workflow step, no custom tooling.
The product itself is auditable.
Compliance products carry a higher bar. Our architecture is the answer to the first question a regulator will ask: "How do we know you didn't tamper with this?"
Not your typical
KYC platform.
Human KYC tools verify people. Model governance tools score models. Kakunin is the missing primitive in between — cryptographic identity and behavioral accountability for the agents themselves. Different problem. Different buyer. Different category.
| Kakunin | Human KYC Jumio · Onfido · Sumsub · Veriff | AI-enhanced KYC AIPrise · Baselayer | Model Governance Credo AI · Arthur AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject of verification | AI agents | Humans & businesses | Humans & businesses | AI models (pre-deploy) |
| X.509 cryptographic identity | ✓AWS KMS · RSA-2048 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Real-time behavioral monitoring | ✓1,000 events/s · p99 200ms | ✗ | ~fraud signals only | ~batch / offline |
| Auto-revocation on risk breach | ✓< 60s SLA · configurable threshold | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EU AI Act compliance reports | ✓Annex III · Art. 13 · Art. 14 | ✗ | ✗ | ~model card only |
| MiCA Article mapping | ✓Art. 67–75 · PDF + JSON | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Immutable append-only audit log | ✓WORM · DB-enforced | ~case-level only | ~case-level only | ~evaluation logs |
| Verifiable agent email inbox | ✓AgentMail · auto-provisioned | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Public certificate verification | ✓No auth · < 500ms · globally cached | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| API-first with typed SDK | ✓REST · OpenAPI 3.0 · TS SDK | ✓ | ✓ | ~varies by vendor |
✓ Fully supported · ~ Partial / adjacent capability · ✗ Not applicable to this category
Kakunin is complementary to, not a replacement for, human KYC or model governance tools. Many customers run all three.
Questions, answered.
How is Kakunin different from Jumio, Onfido, or Sumsub?
Those verify humans. Kakunin verifies AI agents— their identity, their behavior, and their model lineage. We're not a replacement for human KYC; we're the missing primitive that sits next to it. We expect to partner with the incumbents, not compete with them.
Is Kakunin a model-governance tool like Credo AI or Arthur AI?
No. Model governance scores the model. Kakunin issues an identity to a specific deployed agent and watches what it does. Together they cover both halves of EU AI Act obligations — they're different primitives.
What happens to a certificate when an agent misbehaves?
The platform tracks a rolling 30-day risk score. When the average crosses 0.85 (configurable), the certificate is auto-revoked, your webhook fires, and the compliance officer receives an email. Every step is written to the audit log.
Where are private keys stored?
In AWS KMS only. Kakunin never has access to plaintext private key material. We store the kms_key_arn, never the key itself. Signing operations are performed by KMS directly.
Do you support US regulatory frameworks?
Yes — live today. Kakunin maps every agent control to NIST AI RMF (all four functions: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), NIST CSF 2.0, and the NCCoE four-pillar model for non-human identities, alongside MiCA, EU AI Act, and ISO 27001. One platform, every framework. The same controls also support GLBA, SOX, PCI DSS, and SEC recordkeeping obligations. See the full mapping at kakunin.ai/compliance.
Can I self-host?
Not at V1.0. We considered it. The value of Kakunin is the network effect of a single trusted certificate authority — which self-hosting undermines. Enterprise customers can request a dedicated Supabase instance for data residency.
How does the free trial work?
30-day free trial on every plan — card required, no charge until day 31, cancel anytime before. We provision your tenant, certify your first 5 agents together in a working session, wire your event stream, and deliver your first compliance report inside 30 days.
Autonomous AI agents,
enterprise-safe.
From trading bots to compliance processors, financial institutions prove agent autonomy using Kakunin. Zero compliance violations. Zero agent escapes.
Autonomous FX trading agent
Tier-1 EU bank. Agent executes up to €50M/day (scoped in cert). Behavioral drift detection active. Compliance team: zero violations. Result: 3x trade execution speed vs human desk.
Autonomous payment processor
Millions of daily transactions reconciled by agent. Behavioral drift caught agent misbehavior on day 3. Revocation fired <5ms. Result: $0 fraud loss. Audit clean.
Autonomous claims triage
Handles €2M/month in claim decisions. Post-hoc audit log validated every decision with regulators. Result: 40% processing speed-up. Liability clear.
Customs filing automation
AI signs customs declarations with KMS-bound private key. Customs authorities verify cryptographic signature directly. Result: 10x faster clearance. No manual review needed.
Diagnostic EHR assistant
Read-only agent on hospital records. Permitted actions encoded in cert. Cannot mutate. HIPAA audit trail automatic. Result: Fast diagnosis. Full regulatory compliance.
EU AI Act–compliant visa processor
Citizen-facing agent decisions fully auditable. Transparency built in, not bolted on. Regulators see: scope, decisions, behavioral baseline, drift alerts.

Identity.
Accountability.
Autonomy.
Cryptographic identity and behavioural proof for AI agents in regulated industries. Financial institutions deploy autonomous agents with Kakunin. Enterprise-safe, audit-ready.