Parent strengthening
The organisation is what gets verified. The machine never is.
Every Agent Passport is linked to the organisation that operates the agent — its Parent. That relationship is the point: an agent identity with no accountable operator behind it answers nothing worth asking.
Strengthening the Parent raises what has been independently checked about the organisation behind your agents — the organisation of record, control of its primary domain, who is authorised to speak for it. It changes nothing about any agent, and it changes no identifier.
The boundary that never moves
A VERIFIED or ASSURED Parent does not verify the agent. The parent organisation's identity is verified. The machine is not.
An agent linked to a VERIFIED Parent is described exactly that way — linked to a VERIFIED Parent — never as a verified agent.
An ECZ-ID does not make an agent safe, certified, approved or compliant, and holding one does not make you compliant with anything.
The three tiers
What each tier establishes about the organisation.
| Tier | What it establishes about the organisation | How it begins |
|---|---|---|
| DECLARED | Truthful self-declared organisation identity, published as not independently verified, with the date the declaration was made. Created for you free if your organisation has no ECZ-ID yet. | Free — £0. Created during the free Agent Passport flow, or reused if your organisation already has an ECZ-ID. |
| VERIFIED | Independent checks on the organisation of record: an organisation-of-record match, control of the primary web domain, an authorised-representative attestation, and a sanctions and legal-status screen of the organisation. | £19.99/month, or £199 as one payment for 12 months. You send evidence about the organisation; a person completes the checks. Payment opens the checks; the tier shows only after they pass. |
| ASSURED | Everything in VERIFIED, plus officer identity document and liveness through a provider, authority to bind the organisation, enhanced sanctions and PEP screening, and a control-proven primary-domain binding. | £49.99/month, or £499 as one payment for 12 months. As VERIFIED, plus an officer check completed through a provider. Payment opens the checks; the tier shows only after they pass. |
VERIFIED and ASSURED begin rather than complete when you pay for them.
Both involve evidence you send us and checks a person completes. Payment opens checks; the tier shows only after checks pass. It verifies your organisation — never an agent. Neither tier ever verifies an agent.
Parent VERIFIED
Annual prepaid: One payment of £199 for exactly 12 calendar months; it does not renew automatically.
Prices in GBP. VAT is not charged. Payment opens checks; the tier shows only after checks pass. It verifies your organisation — never an agent.
Parent ASSURED
Annual prepaid: One payment of £499 for exactly 12 calendar months; it does not renew automatically.
Prices in GBP. VAT is not charged. Payment opens checks; the tier shows only after checks pass. It verifies your organisation — never an agent.
Where every organisation starts
A DECLARED Parent is a truthful self-declaration by the organisation. It is free, and one is created for you if you do not already have one.
It is created in the same flow as a free Agent Passport, so getting the one gets you the other.
And what starting there does not mean
DECLARED does not mean independently verified. It records what an organisation says about itself, with the date it said it — not the outcome of a check.
The check matrix
Exactly which checks each tier performs.
| Check | DECLARED | VERIFIED | ASSURED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation-of-record match | Not checked | Yes | Yes |
| Control of the primary web domain | Not checked | Yes | Yes, as a control-proven binding |
| Authorised-representative attestation | Not checked | Yes | Yes |
| Sanctions and legal-status screen of the organisation | Not checked | Yes | Enhanced, including PEP screening |
| Officer identity document | Not checked | Not part of VERIFIED | Yes, through a provider |
| Liveness check on that officer | Not checked | Not part of VERIFIED | Yes, through a provider |
| Authority to bind the organisation | Not checked | Not part of VERIFIED | Yes |
| Anything at all about an agent under this Parent | Never | Never | Never |
What is stored when ASSURED checks an officer
The document and liveness checks run through a provider, and only the outcome of the check and the provider’s reference for it are stored against the organisation. Raw images and document numbers are not stored on the record, are not stored by us, and are never published. The public record carries the tier and what the tier means — not the evidence behind it.
What ASSURED is not
Our highest standard is still ours, and still only about the organisation.
It is our standard, not a regulator's
ASSURED is ECZ-ID's own assurance standard. It is not regulatory approval, it is not a licence, and it is not a finding that the organisation complies with any regime.
It says nothing about creditworthiness
No tier assesses solvency, financial standing, trading history or ability to pay. A tier is not a credit signal and must not be read as one.
It does not complete anyone's KYB or KYC
Holding a tier does not discharge a counterparty's know-your-business or know-your-customer obligations, and it does not discharge your own. Their obligation is theirs.
It still verifies no agent
A VERIFIED or ASSURED Parent does not verify the agent. The parent organisation's identity is verified. The machine is not. An agent linked to a VERIFIED Parent is described exactly that way — linked to a VERIFIED Parent — never as a verified agent.
A VERIFIED or ASSURED Parent does not verify the agent. The parent organisation's identity is verified. The machine is not. If a reviewer needs evidence about one particular agent — who operates it, what authority its operator has delegated to it, and where that delegation lives — that is a different product on a different axis: the Agent Authority & Enterprise Assurance Kit. It organises that evidence around the agent’s ECZ-ID; it does not verify the agent either.
See the Agent Authority KitRevalidation and lapse
What happens after the check, and what happens if you stop.
Revalidated every 12 months
And again on material change — a change of registered name, of the representative who attested, or of control of the primary domain. A 30-day grace period covers the revalidation window, so an in-progress re-check never flips a record for administrative reasons.
If a tier lapses, nothing is deleted
The organisation keeps its ECZ-ID. Every child Passport under it stays exactly where it is, with the same identifiers and the same resolver pages. Nothing is detached and nothing is unpublished.
The history stays truthful
The period during which the organisation held the tier remains a true statement about that period, and stays on the record as one. A lapse is not rewritten into never having happened, and it is not rendered as a finding against the organisation.
Your ECZ-ID does not change. Taking a tier, moving between tiers, letting one lapse, or never taking one at all leaves every identifier, every child record and every resolver URL exactly as it was.
Separate axes
A Parent tier and AEC are two separate axes.
Strengthening the organisation is not scaling it
A Parent tier changes what has been independently checked about the organisation, and nothing about any agent: it never verifies an agent and never changes an ECZ-ID. How many agents you can actively manage is a separate axis — AEC — Active Entity Capacity, pooled across the organisation. TrustOps shows how much your organisation holds.
Capacity confers no tier
An organisation with a large AEC pool is exactly as independently checked as one using none — which is to say, not at all, unless it has separately taken VERIFIED or ASSURED. AEC never makes an identity more verified.
Strengthen the organisation, not the claim.
Both tiers involve evidence you send us and checks a person completes. Start the one you are aiming at in TrustOps, or ask first and we will say what evidence is needed before you commit to anything.
Prices and what can be bought today come from TrustOps, which owns every purchase, entitlement and renewal.
Your agents do not need any of this to have an identity. A free Agent Passport under a DECLARED Parent publishes a complete, permanent, resolvable record — see what it includes.
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Where next
Where next.
- Free Agent PassportFree · Permanent · No card. What it includes, and how to start.Go
- Every product for agentsEach with its live state, its price and its own TrustOps route.Go
- Agent use casesSerious agent scenarios, and what serves each one.Go
- Verify an ECZ-IDResolve before reliance: read the live public record.Go
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