FAQ
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What does AuthLN do?
AuthLN proves authentication and authorization: who was allowed in, what was allowed to act and on whose authority, on a record no one can rewrite. It brings together Factor Assurance (authority to enter, shipped), Agent Authority (authority to act, coming soon) and the Agent Access Review (available now).
What does the name mean?
AuthLN is the Auth Lineage Network. Lineage means any action can be traced back through every agent and hand-off to the person whose authority it ran on. The fan in the logo is that lineage: one person on the left, authority branching and narrowing to the right.
What is Factor Assurance?
The decision layer in front of your identity provider. Every sign-in attempt resolves to Authorized, Denied or Walked away, and arrives in your SOC as one event with an outcome and an ID. It is shipped and in production.
Does Factor Assurance replace my identity provider?
No. It stands in front of Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and JumpCloud, which stay exactly as they are. Your directory, your policy and your lifecycle are unchanged, and nothing is rerouted.
What does "Walked away" mean?
An attempt that saw the gate and left. Most systems only record a success or a failure. A walk-away still leaves a record, and a walk-away from an untrusted origin is itself a signal.
What credentials does it use?
A device-bound passkey whose private key is generated inside the hardware security perimeter and cannot be exported; proximity-based authentication, which checks device GPS against network geolocation; and an ML-DSA-65-ES256 hybrid passkey with post-quantum signatures. All three are shipped.
Is Agent Authority available?
Not yet. Agent Authority is coming soon. It is built so every agent action traces back to a person, within limits that only narrow, checked at a gate and recorded where the agent cannot reach. We are forming a small group of design partners.
What is an Agent Access Review?
A two-week review, available now, run from read-only exports with nothing installed. You get an inventory of the agents acting in your environment, a map of what each can reach and under whose authority, and a fix plan your people own.
What data does the review need? Do you need our secrets?
Read-only exports from tools you already run. Never secrets: no passwords, API keys, tokens or connection strings, and no content such as prompts, message bodies or file contents. If anything is CUI or export-controlled, the review can run inside your GCC High or GovCloud tenant. We delete everything at the end and confirm it in writing.
Where does the record live?
Outside the thing being recorded. The record is written once and held where the system that acted cannot edit it, so it can be checked by your team, your auditors and your customers.
What is your SOC 2 status?
SOC 2 Type I completed; Type II examination underway, report expected Q3 2026.
What patents does AuthLN hold?
Two issued U.S. patents: US 11,956,366 and US 12,118,550.
Start here
Start with what is running today. Book an Agent Access Review.
Two weeks, from read-only exports, with nothing installed. You get an inventory of your agents, a map of what each can reach and under whose authority, and a plan your people own.
And the questions that follow
- 01How many changes can one agent, and the sub-agents it starts, make in our systems?
- 02When we revoke a person’s access, do the agents acting for them lose it at the same moment?
- 03If an agent is compromised, what did it do, and under whose authority?
- 04When did an agent first reach sensitive data, and whose grant let it?