Partner program · integration ladder

Build a KYE™ integration profile for your product.

KYE Protocol™ is an open contract layer. The partner program exists so identity, KYC/KYB/KYA, payment, agent, MCP, audit, GRC and policy vendors can ship a documented integration with a conformance fixture, a public listing, and a badge their customers can verify with public keys alone.

Who this is for

Vendors whose customers are already asking “does it work with KYE™?”

If you sell into regulated enterprises with AI-agent or delegated-authority workflows, your buyers are already being asked — by their auditors, regulators, or risk teams — how their stack proves the chain. Eight categories of vendor map directly into the protocol surface:

keyIAM & identityOAuth / OIDC providers, SPIFFE workload identity, decentralised-identity wallets. KYE™ does not replace your stack — it composes with it.
badgeKYC / KYB / KYAOnboarding, sanctions-screening, beneficial-ownership, agent-attestation vendors. Your verifications become signed claims attached to the entity URN.
paymentsOpen banking & paymentsPISP / TPP platforms, payment gateways, card networks, issuer-processors. Delegated payment-initiation authority becomes a first-class object.
smart_toyAgent & MCP platformsAgent runtimes, MCP hosts, agent-orchestration tools. Capability profiles + tool governance become protocol primitives.
policyPolicy enginesOPA/Rego, Cedar, custom policy engines. Decisions emit signed Decision Maps™ via your engine.
manage_searchSIEM, GRC, auditSIEMs, GRC platforms, evidence-collection tools, control-mapping vendors. Audit-event stream + evidence packs feed your pipeline.
verified_userAudit firms3PAOs, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 lead auditors, EU AI Act notified bodies, FedRAMP assessors. Replayable evidence shrinks audit cost.
handshakeConsultancies & SIsImplementation partners, regulated-industry consultancies, system integrators. Pilot delivery, conformance prep, certification prep.
schoolTraining partnersApproved training providers and academies. Deliver KYE Protocol™ workshops to your customers under co-branded enablement; receive program materials, train-the-trainer artefacts, and signed completion records. Program opens with v1.1.
The integration ladder

Four tiers, each one a public, verifiable claim.

Every tier is a signed artefact. No tier is a marketing pill — each is reproducible by anyone with public keys and the conformance pack. You can stop at any tier; you do not need to climb.

  • L1KYE Self-Tested™ — you run the conformance fixtures locally and self-declare results. No review required. Listed in the registry as “self-tested” with a link to your fixture report.
  • L2KYE Self-Attested™ — you publish a signed self-attestation (Ed25519, JWS) bundled with your fixture results. The KYE Protocol™ program verifies the signature; the claim itself is yours.
  • L3KYE Conformant™ — conformance report reviewed end-to-end by the KYE™ program. Schema, endpoint, behaviour, evidence shape, error codes, and edge-case handling all checked. Badge issued; registry listing upgraded.
  • L4KYE Certified™ — full third-party-audited certification by an approved audit firm. Public registry listing. Annual revalidation. The mark a regulated buyer can put in front of their supervisor.
What each tier gives you

Concrete benefits, not marketing badges.

BenefitL1L2L3L4
Listed in public registry
Use of KYE™ word mark in product copy✓ (with disclaimer)
Use of conformance badge logo
Program-signed attestation
Third-party audit
Co-marketing on KYE Protocol™ site
Direct referral from regulated-buyer pilots
Annual revalidation required

Trademark policy — including the precise rules for using the KYE™, KYE Protocol™, KYE Conformant™, and KYE Certified™ marks — is documented on the legal page (trademarks section + FAQ).

Commercial partner SKUs (Universal Engagement Rail)

Four commercial tiers, including Tier-1 / Custom for global SIs and Big-4.

The L1–L4 integration ladder above is the conformance track — what gets you a public registry listing and a verifiable badge. The commercial SKU ladder below is the partnership-economics track — how revenue, co-sell motion, and named-engineer support attach to each tier.

Tier-1 / Custom

For global SIs, Big-4, sovereign integrators, and regulated-cloud partners engaging on multi-million pound, multi-year programs.

  • NDA + scoping call set the boundary; bespoke SKU shape
  • Dual-channel sign-off on every irreversible
  • Named partner engineer + named back-up engineer
  • Quarterly attestation cadence
  • Regulator-bound retention windows

Contact for pricing.

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Strategic Partner™ (T3)

Top-tier public partner. Joint go-to-market, white-label rights, dedicated success engineer.

From £75k/year.

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Solutions Partner™ (T2)

Mid-tier. Co-sell motion, deal-registration, solution-builder enablement.

From £15k/year.

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Referral Partner™ (T1)

Entry tier. Refer qualified opportunities; earn referral credit on closed-won deals.

£0/year.

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Process & timeline

From handshake to badge in 4–8 weeks.

  1. P1Discovery call. 30–45 minutes. We map your product surface to KYE Protocol™ primitives. We tell you, on the call, which tier is realistic and what's missing.
  2. P2Profile draft. You publish a draft integration profile against the spec: which entities you produce, which endpoints you call, which evidence you emit. We review and propose changes.
  3. P3Conformance run. Run the 129-fixture conformance pack. For L1, self-declare. For L2–L3, sign and submit. For L4, an approved audit firm runs the pack.
  4. P4Review. L2: signature verification. L3: end-to-end program review (~5 working days). L4: audit firm produces a signed report.
  5. P5Listing. Public registry entry created with the signed conformance report attached. Badge artefact issued under the trademark licence.
  6. P6Maintenance. L4 partners revalidate annually. L3 partners notify the program on any breaking change to their integration.
Public registry

Every claim, public-key-verifiable.

The registry is published as a static, signed JSON file plus a human-readable HTML index. Each entry contains the partner identity, tier, conformance-report hash, signing key, and last-revalidation date. Anyone — a regulator, an auditor, a buyer's procurement team — can replay the evidence offline using the published public keys.

The registry is in pre-launch alongside v1.0 of the protocol. Founding partners listed here will be co-announced with the v1.1 release.

Start

Propose a partnership.

If your product fits one of the eight categories above — or you think it should — reach out. The first call is always discovery, never sales. The protocol is Apache 2.0; the certification program is the only commercial component.

Adjacent reading

Where to go next.

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