Enforcement
Stopped before they execute.
Did your AI do what it was told?
Proof of conduct for the agent economy.
Privacy
A counterparty learns that the policy held. They learn nothing else.
Speed
Verified in < 1 millisecond. Enforcement decisions at 27–250 nanoseconds. Proving runs 1,438–4,778× faster than zkVM baselines.
“I think the limiting factor for agentic commerce is trust.”
Ryan McInerney
CEO, Visa
Visa Fiscal Q2 2026 Earnings Call, April 28, 2026What You Can Enforce
Context
Insights
The Agent Paid. Did it Obey its Mandate?
When I read that Visa, Mastercard, Ripple, and a growing number of payment infrastructure companies were joining the x402 effort, I felt two things at the same time.
Author: JJ
July 30, 2026
The Problem vs. the Dilemma
Why AI governance needs proof, not more disclosure.
Author: JJ
July 24, 2026
Guarantee the conduct of your AI
FAQs
Inherence is proof-of-conduct infrastructure for AI agents. You write a policy. We compile it into an inline enforcer and a proof system. The enforcer blocks off-mandate actions before they execute. The proof system issues a 128-byte receipt for every action, verifiable by anyone in about a millisecond.
A log is a record written by the operator. Reading one means trusting whoever wrote it. A receipt is a cryptographic object. Anyone can verify it independently, including counterparties with no reason to trust either side.
Amounts, thresholds, behavior rules, and strategies all stay hidden. Proofs are zero-knowledge. The only thing a verifier learns is that the policy held.
Decisions run inline at 27 to 250 nanoseconds. Proving runs off the hot path. Verification takes about a millisecond.
You do not need to. Every compilation ships with a machine-checked soundness certificate showing the compiled system matches the policy as written.