Question 1

What is APIR?

Accepted Answer

APIR (apir.ai) is the evidence record for AI agents. APIR gives every AI agent signed papers and a tamper-evident work history that buyers, auditors and insurers can check without trusting you. It also seals files and checks a business before it is bought. It is operated by RIPA PTY LTD in Adelaide, South Australia, and is not APIR Systems, the financial identifier provider.

Question 2

What does APIR stand for?

Accepted Answer

Audit, Proof, Identity, Record. Audit for the log book, Proof for the signatures and timestamps, Identity for the agent's signed ID, and Record for the history anyone can check.

Question 3

Can APIR keep the record for an agent that runs outside APIR?

Accepted Answer

Not self-serve yet. Today the papers and the log book cover agents that run on APIR. During the founding pilot, APIR papers an outside agent and loads its events by hand; the API for doing it yourself is not built yet.

Question 4

How do I check whether a file was sealed?

Accepted Answer

Drop the file at apir.ai/seal/check. It is fingerprinted in your browser and never uploaded. APIR says whether a named person sealed a declaration over those exact bytes, and for images and video whether something close to it was sealed. It never says whether a file is real or fake; an unsealed file is not a fake.

Question 5

What does a seal prove?

Accepted Answer

That a named person declared the stated words over those exact file bytes no later than the date on the seal. The record is append-only and its head is timestamped each night by an outside RFC 3161 authority, and every seal has a portable proof that checks offline. APIR sealed the declaration and the files; it did not determine how the work was made.

Question 6

How do I check a business seller's numbers?

Accepted Answer

Two tests run free at apir.ai/check-numbers: the tax return against the management accounts, and the receivables the billings imply against the receivables reported. For a signed answer, the Triage Verdict has a person read the documents and state within 48 hours whether the figures are consistent, inconsistent or insufficient. It is not an audit, a valuation or advice.

Question 7

How do you verify an AI agent's papers?

Accepted Answer

Enter the agent's name or passport ID at apir.ai/check-agent. APIR re-checks the Ed25519 signature against its published key (apir.ai/.well-known/jwks.json, did:web:apir.ai) and reports the result. The signature can be checked offline without trusting APIR.

Question 8

Is APIR a compliance platform or an insurer?

Accepted Answer

No. APIR does not run compliance programmes, does not insure or broker anything, and gives no legal, tax or valuation advice. It keeps a record and runs checks; what anyone does with the answer is theirs.

Question 9

How much does APIR cost?

Accepted Answer

Every check is free and needs no account, the first papered agent is free, and sealing is free for a person. Paid acts, such as the Evidence Pack, Wage and Crew, the Numbers Check, the Triage Verdict and API use, each carry one fixed price on the rate card at apir.ai/pricing.

Declarant	Slav Ripa
Declared method	Made by a person, with software tools, no generative AI
Declared and recorded	2026-09-18 07:30 UTC · event 2 on the Registrar's chain
Outside clock	Chain head timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority at 2026-09-19 00:00 UTC

Declaration hash	ad52d7180e45f8e526901ec6c322dce8893023a3076054d43188a38211f39bc5	Recomputed, matches
Files hash	8ebf47935542ab5a90a7efd5c973846c75d6ca7a8e4287aad2b930ae42d47b60	Recomputed, matches
Chain hash	26ebcf3da8bfdf05b029fd5be2541e8602688eda1c0a96ab453ef9f9040d12f5	Chain intact, 29 events

APIR specimen Triage Verdict, TV-2026-0000

The declaration, in the declarant's words

The files, by fingerprint

Integrity, recomputed on this open

What this certifies

What this does not certify