The Directory

A claim about someone else is worth what a stranger can check.

Every company names its partners, its customers and its investors. None of those claims carries a date, an asserter, or the agreement of the party it is about — because the vocabulary the whole web uses has nowhere to put any of the three.

The Directory adds those fields, and one the web cannot express at all — a signature from the other side, verifiable offline from two published keys by a reader who trusts neither party and cannot reach us.

Audit a website →See our own grade

Four rungs

Each one is something a reader can do that they could not do on the rung below. The counts are this estate’s own, read on 30 August 2026.

  1. RUNG 1Unverifiable30 of 47

    A name on a page. No date, no asserter, nothing to check.

  2. RUNG 2Attributed17 of 47

    Dated and attributed by one side. Unilateral — publishable without asking anybody.

  3. RUNG 3Countersigned0 of 47

    The other party signed the same assertion. Verifiable offline by a stranger who trusts neither side.

  4. RUNG 4Independent0 of 47

    Countersigned by a party we do not control. The only rung that is evidence rather than consent.

Rung two is unilateral: any company can publish dated, attributed claims this afternoon without asking a counterparty for anything. Rung three needs the other side, which is why it is rare — and why it is the only rung a competitor cannot reach by scraping harder.

The network

The register splits in two, and only one half is the point. The estate is the reference set — the worked examples a newcomer copies. The network is everyone else, and the one number the whole platform turns on is how many of them there are.

The estate · 10 reference nodes at L2
claimyour.goldL2flashy.goldL2flashygroup.comL2flashyid.comL2flashynetwork.comL2flashy.academyL2flashyos.comL2gda.groupL2gord.holdingsL2mlgblockchain.comL2
The network · 0 external nodes

No organisation we do not own has reached the mesh yet. This is the number the platform exists to move.

Be the first node that is not ours. One command scaffolds a charter that passes L2, a handshake, and your place in this register. No account, nothing published until you choose.

npm create @flashyos/mesh-node -- yourdomain.com --email you@org.com
Join the mesh →Check your rung

What is here

All of it is live, and all of it runs on anybody’s domain, not only ours.

Audit a website

Paste a domain. See every relationship it claims and how many a reader could verify. No signup, nothing stored, works on anybody’s site.

Run the audit →
The estate scoreboard

Our own grade, published — including the part that is not flattering. Nothing we publish has been countersigned.

See the zero →
Countersign a claim

Ask the other party to sign the exact assertion you published. They sign in their own browser, with a key that never leaves it.

Open the flow →
The profile

directory/1 — the schemas and the conformance suite, served at stable URLs so an implementation in any language can check itself against them.

Read the spec →

Why an agent needs this and you do not

A person reading “trusted by” on a website discounts it automatically. The claim is cheap, everybody knows it is cheap, and it costs nothing to make and nothing to ignore.

An agent asked whether one company is really a client of another has no such instinct and no source. It declines, or it invents an answer from a marketing page and passes it downstream as fact. As diligence and sourcing move to agents, an unverifiable claim stops being harmless and becomes a failure with a cost attached.

That is the whole reason this sits on a mesh built for agents rather than in a compliance dashboard.