Illustrative demonstration of an Accords agent completing four scripted tasks across travel, accounts payable, payroll, and insurance. Duffel is in integration today; QuickBooks, Gusto, and insurance connectors are on the 2026 roadmap.
The infrastructure layer for governed AI action.
Accords is the permission layer and runtime for safe AI agents acting across business systems on the open internet. Identity. Governance. Audit trails. Used by every product built on top.
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Every platform shift creates a new set of winners. And a longer list of companies nobody remembers.
Internet.
Companies that moved too slow lost relevance.
Mobile.
Companies that underestimated it lost attention, engagement, and share.
AI-driven action.
Consumers are no longer just searching. They are deciding, executing, and transacting.
U.S. agent-mediated commerce by 2030
— Bainof global e-commerce enabled by AI agents by 2030
— Deloittegoverned permission layers for agents acting across the open internet
— Until Accords.The layer doesn't exist. We're building it.
Three components. One system.
Each product stands alone. The power is in the ecosystem.
Every wall has the same problem.
Gemini inside Google. Siri inside Apple. Copilot inside Microsoft. Walled assistants work where their maker does — not where your customer does.
Vault-bound credentials live inside the company. Crossing the firewall means re-auth, re-approval, re-everything. The customer does the work the agent was supposed to do.
Each assistant is limited to its maker's API surface. Business outside the surface is business the assistant routes around.
Vault-style security stops at the firewall. The moment an agent acts on the open internet — booking travel, paying vendors, filing taxes — the vault is behind it.
Whichever wall, the same trade. Your brand becomes a tile in someone else's garden — or a record in someone else's identity layer. The value belongs to the wall.
Accords governs what agents do on the open internet.