Our Mission
The web was built for humans clicking links. Agents need machine-readable terms, predictable enforcement, and a durable way to verify what happened without relying on a single vendor's logs.
Originary's mission is to make meaningful agent interactions verifiable and governable on the open internet through portable decision records: signed receipts that bind an outcome to the policy state in force at decision time, with privacy-preserving defaults.
We build this on two foundations:
- PEAC Protocol - the open standard for policy discovery and verifiable receipts (settlement is optional and adapter-based)
- Originary Platform - production components that help teams author policy, enforce decisions, and verify receipts in real systems
The Seven Pillars
Everything we design is tied together through decision context: receipts bind outcomes to the access terms, consent, attribution, and other constraints that were active at decision time.
Access
Who can read or call what.
Attribution
How creators and sources are credited.
Consent
What is allowed under stated terms.
Commerce
Optional settlement terms and evidence.
Compliance
How obligations map to verifiable controls.
Privacy
What is collected, retained, and disclosed.
Provenance
How outputs trace to inputs and decisions.
What We're Building
We start with policy and receipts, then add verification, enforcement, and operational exports as deployments grow. Products are modular: adopt one surface or deploy the full stack.
Declare (Policy Kit)
Define interaction terms once in a format that is human-readable and machine-enforceable.
Trace
Produce evidence exports and decision views derived from receipts and policy snapshots for audits, disputes, and operations.
Gateway 402
Enforce allow/deny/rate limits and optional HTTP 402 challenges, then issue receipts consistently at the edge or origin.
Verify API
Verify receipt signatures and bind outcomes to the policy state in force at decision time. Designed to validate receipts from conformant issuers.
Studio
Collaborative tooling for policy review, testing, and operating evidence workflows.
Teams typically start with Declare + the SDK/CLI, then add Gateway and Verify when they need enforcement and third-party verifiability. Trace and Studio follow when audits, disputes, or scale require structured evidence workflows.
PEAC Protocol: Open-Source Foundation
PEAC (Programmable Environment for Agent Coordination) is the open protocol behind our receipts.
It defines how policies are published (for example at /.well-known/peac.txt) and how cryptographically signed receipts provide portable evidence of an interaction outcome under declared terms. Settlement can be represented when applicable, but PEAC is rail-neutral by design.
PEAC is Apache-2.0 licensed and stewarded in the open on GitHub by contributors from Originary and the broader community. Multiple independent implementations are expected and encouraged. Originary ships one reference implementation and optional hosted services, but the protocol is not owned by a vendor.
PEAC is currently in a 0.9.x development line. Wire formats and verification rules are converging; core concepts (policy discovery and receipt verification) are designed for long-term stability.
How We Work
Our principles guide everything we build
Receipts-first
We treat receipts as portable decision records: durable evidence that can be verified independently and used across audits, disputes, and partner workflows.
Protocol-driven
PEAC evolves in the open with clear specifications, test vectors, and governance so anyone can implement it without permission.
Developer-led
Start with a single file (peac.txt) and the SDK/CLI. Adopt hosted services only when you need operational support.
Company
Originary is the steward and primary implementer of PEAC, operated by Poem, Inc.
ORIGINARYTM is a brand of Poem, Inc.
Poem, Inc. builds AI infrastructure software and tools for the agentic web, and maintains the Originary products and services that run on top of PEAC Protocol.
In the U.S., “Originary” is used by Poem, Inc. as a brand for its AI infrastructure software and tools for the agentic web. Poem, Inc. is not affiliated with Originary Inc.