Purpose-bound
Connect an action to the business purpose and sponsor that authorised it.
Authority layer
OATI Mandate
Give agents boundaries, not blank cheques.
An OATI Mandate is a signed, short-lived expression of delegated authority. It states who the agent acts for, the exact purpose of the action and the limits that must hold for the transaction to proceed.
The question it answers
“What may this agent do, for whom, for what purpose and until when?”
Precisely limited
Constrain actions, resources, counterparties, destinations, data use, value, volume and time.
Safe to delegate
Allow narrower child mandates while preventing authority from expanding through a delegation chain.
How it works
A precise part of the trust chain.
Each OATI component has one clear job. Together they create a transaction that another organisation can understand and verify.
- 01
Delegate
A sponsor issues authority for a defined agent, purpose and transaction scope.
- 02
Evaluate
A deterministic evaluator compares the requested action, current context and every mandate constraint.
- 03
Consume or expire
Usage and limits are recorded; the Mandate expires, is exhausted or can be revoked.
In the profile
The authority envelope
- Agent, accountable organisation and sponsor
- Purpose and permitted actions
- Resources, tools, counterparties and destinations
- Data-use and disclosure conditions
- Financial, volume and time limits
- Delegation depth and child constraints
- Proof key, expiry, approvals and revocation
Use the standard
Check a Mandate record
Resolve the public record and its lifecycle status before evaluating the Mandate’s delegated authority and limits.
Open the full lookupContinue through the standard
OATI Receipt
Verifiable record of an agent action