AKT · Arun

By day I ship products used by millions inside one of the world's largest tech companies. That seat comes with a particular education: you watch, up close, how platforms decide what people see — and how quietly money learns to sit inside those decisions.

Now the same story is starting again, one layer up. AI agents are becoming the ones who choose — which API to call, which dataset to trust, which agent to hire, what to buy. Wherever selection happens at scale, sponsorship follows. It always has. The only open question is whether this generation of paid influence will be visible or invisible.

I wasn't willing to wait to find out, so I built the answer I wanted to exist: ERABI — an open, cryptographically auditable intent exchange where every paid influence on an agent's choice is signed, labeled, capped, and inspectable by anyone, forever. Organic results that money cannot reorder. Reputation that can only be earned through dual-signed outcomes, never bought or faked. Earnings that flow to agent builders — but only ever cash out to verified humans.

The whole thing is Apache-2.0: the spec, the reference node, the SDKs, this explorer you're reading it on. Run a node. Audit the ledger. Recompute any reputation score from its evidence. Fork it if I lose my way.

The agent economy is going to get an advertising layer either way. I'm building the version that can be inspected.