What Apidentity is
A certificate a company earns once and shows to everyone.
A manufacturer, a distributor and a reseller often share the same customers. Each one verifies that customer separately, to a different standard, and the customer fills in the same forms for every one of them. Apidentity removes the duplication by moving who does the verifying: the company verifies itself, once, and holds the result — not the counterparty who happens to ask first.
An entity requests a certificate about itself. There is no route by which one company can verify a different one — the subject of a check is always the credential's own holder. This is deliberate: a certificate you could not create for yourself unprompted would not be worth much, but a certificate somebody else could create about you without your involvement would be worth even less.
How a certificate is earned
The orchestrator binds the requester's authority — the person declaring has to be matched against the officers the business register names, or act under a documented mandate — and then acquires at least two distinct kinds of proof. Never two readings of one source: the national business register and the European Commission's VAT registry (VIES) are independent authorities, and a parsed Kbis or equivalent extract is independent of both. Those are cross-compared into a confidence score, and a certificate is issued above a threshold. Below it, none is — there's no partial certificate, just no certificate.
What it does not do
It does not decide whether you may trade with anyone. It establishes who a company is, and grades what the public record says about it — the decision, and the obligation, stay yours. It also does not classify goods for export or determine licence requirements; both of those are the exporter's, in law, not a KYB engine's.
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