about-us.md

design partners — Q3 2026 cohort

Reserve namespace.
Shape the schema.
Ship first.

We're onboarding a small cohort of design-partner businesses through Q3 2026. You get reserved namespace, hands-on integration help from The Holding Company engineering, and influence over the consent-receipt schema before it freezes for public launch.

What you get

What we're looking for

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Real inbound identity pain

You feel fraud, agent-generated tickets, or account-recovery load daily — not theoretically. "Nice to have" isn't a fit.

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Engineering that can wire an HTTP call

Verification is 15 lines. If your team owns your helpdesk or gateway config, you're ready.

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Willingness to iterate publicly

You're OK being cited (with your approval) in the launch narrative. Silent partners possible but rarer.

Timeline

  1. Q3

    Onboarding & schema freeze

    Cohort selection through Aug 2026. Weekly co-design sessions. Schema v1 freezes by end of September.

  2. Q4

    Production integrations

    Partners run verification in production. Public revocation ledger goes live. Reference implementations land in @aboutus/verify and verifyd.

  3. Q1'27

    Public launch

    General availability. Partner case studies published. Pricing announced with the design-partner discount locked in.

Pricing (post-launch, indicative)

Free

Verify-only

Verify handles at your edge, use the public JWKS. Unlimited. Forever. This is the community tier.

Team

Business handle

Your own /about-us/<name>, published receipts, revocation ledger writes, support SLA. Priced per verified customer-month.

Enterprise

Sovereign issuer

Self-hosted verify + issue stack, private revocation ledger, dedicated on-prem support. Talk to us.

Apply

Send us who you are, what problem you're feeling, and what stack you'd wire this into. We reply within one business day.