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Pilot Cohort 2026

Founding Pilot for AI Agent Identity, Audit, and Oversight

Built for regulated financial workflows across DeFi, exchanges, and fintech

Regent Protocol is building Know Your Agent (KYA) infrastructure: the technical layer that gives AI agents verifiable identity, immutable audit trails, and real-time behavioral guardrails. We are working with a small number of founding design partners to shape this infrastructure alongside the teams that will operate it.

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Who This Pilot Is For

This pilot is intended for organizations actively deploying or evaluating AI agents in financial workflows.

DeFi Protocols

Protocols that use autonomous agents for liquidity management, risk monitoring, or governance execution and need verifiable accountability for on-chain actions.

Exchanges & Trading Platforms

Centralized and decentralized exchanges integrating AI-driven order routing, surveillance, or automated compliance reporting that require an auditable agent identity layer.

Fintechs & Neobanks

Financial technology companies using AI agents for customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, or decision-making that operate under AML, KYC, or data residency obligations.

What Is Available Now

Regent Protocol is in active development. The founding pilot is structured around what we can deliver and validate together today.

01

AgentID Protocol Design

W3C DID-aligned identity specification for AI agents, linked to verifiable legal entity ownership. Available for architecture review and joint integration scoping with pilot partners.

02

Audit Chain Specification

Decision-log schema and on-chain anchoring design for agent action history. Available for architecture review and initial requirements alignment with your technical and compliance teams.

03

Pilot-Stage Compliance Scoping

Preliminary use-case-specific control mapping across relevant regulatory frameworks (AML, EU AI Act, MiFID II). Structured as a working document for internal review — not a legal opinion or formal audit.

04

Founding Partner Access

Direct access to the founding team. Structured discovery sessions to map your current agent infrastructure to Regent's compliance layer, with input into the product roadmap.

What You Get in 14 Days

The founding pilot is a structured 14-day engagement. Here is what participating organizations receive.

Initial Agent Stack Review

A structured conversation to document your current AI agent setup, data flows, and decision-making boundaries — used to identify where identity and audit controls are most relevant to your context.

Integration Scoping Document

A preliminary technical outline of how Regent's AgentID and Audit Chain modules could connect to your stack — covering likely integration points, data formats, and open questions to resolve in a follow-on build phase.

Initial Requirements Mapping

A preliminary mapping of your use case to relevant regulatory considerations — focused on your specific jurisdiction and agent workflow. Structured as a working document, not a legal or compliance opinion.

Founding Partner Input

Pilot partners engage directly with the founding team. Your requirements and feedback feed into the roadmap. This is a design collaboration, not a product evaluation.

Core Product Modules

Know Your Agent — Identity and oversight infrastructure for autonomous AI agents in regulated finance

AgentID

A digital identity system combining decentralized identifiers (DID) with verified owner KYC. Each agent receives a unique, immutable identity linked to a responsible legal entity.

  • ▸ W3C DID-compliant credentials
  • ▸ Owner KYC verification
  • ▸ Cross-border compatibility

Audit Chain

Immutable audit trails capturing every agent decision, data source, and action. Full transparency for compliance teams, regulators, and institutional stakeholders.

  • ▸ Timestamped decision logs
  • ▸ Tamper-proof record storage
  • ▸ Structured records for internal and regulatory review

Guardian AI

A monitoring layer designed to surface behavioral anomalies, explain key signals, and support risk oversight in agent-driven workflows.

  • ▸ Continuous compliance monitoring
  • ▸ XAI-powered explanations
  • ▸ Automated risk alerts

Founder & Advisor

Sayat Kakzhanov - Founder & CEO

Sayat Kakzhanov

Founder & CEO

Product leader with experience across consumer technology, digital banking, and intelligence-driven product strategy. Former Chief Product Officer at Kazdream Group, previously held product and digital roles including Jusan Bank, and earlier co-founded 1Fit. Holds a Master's degree in Digital Product Management from HSE.

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Marco Comuzzi - Advisor

Advisor

Marco Comuzzi

Associate Professor and Director of the Blockchain Research Center at UNIST (Department of Industrial Engineering), Ulsan, South Korea. Research focus: process mining, blockchain, and data-driven compliance.

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What We Ask From Pilot Partners

  • ▸ 2–3 working sessions with the Regent founding team over the pilot period
  • ▸ One technical or compliance point of contact on your side
  • ▸ One clearly defined AI agent use case to scope the engagement around
  • ▸ Optional: existing workflow documentation or sample decision logs to accelerate scoping

Apply for the Founding Pilot

We are accepting a limited number of founding design partners. If your organization operates AI agents in a regulated financial context, we want to hear from you.

Qualified teams will be contacted directly.

What Happens After You Apply

1

Application Review

We review every application personally to assess fit with the pilot scope and current cohort focus.

2

Qualification Call

If your application looks like a strong fit, we schedule a short call to understand your use case and confirm scope alignment.

3

Pilot Fit Decision

We confirm whether to proceed with the founding pilot engagement, and agree on a timeline and working structure with your team.