Keep a verified human accountable for high-risk actions
Keep every agent's access attributable and revocable, and put a verified human in the decision where the stakes are high so that control is continuous and accountability is provable.
With Faction, cryptographic device identity governs access by default — there are no credentials to spoof, and no phishing possible. Keeping AI and high-risk actions under human control then takes two things: making every agent's access attributable and revocable — so a human stays in oversight and can step in the instant it's needed — and putting a verified human in the decision at the moments that carry real risk. Faction provides both.
On the loop for everything. In the loop where it counts.
A recurring mistake is to assume "human-in-the-loop" means a human approves every action. At machine speed and scale, that neither works nor is safe: a mandatory per-action approval step becomes its own failure mode — a person asked to approve thousands of actions soon rubber-stamps them, and the efficiency and value of the agent is greatly diminished. Faction's model is different: authority is continuous, but human presence is event-driven — held in place by two distinct postures.
- Human-on-the-loop — the default at runtime. Once authority is granted, the agent operates autonomously within fixed cryptographic bounds. Humans supervise attributed, tamper-evident activity and can intervene at any moment — rather than gating every action — holding a machine-speed, network-layer revocation.
- Human-in-the-loop — for the moments that matter. Live human presence is required at only two points: establishing an agent's authority, and approving or denying a specific high-stakes action. Here a human is genuinely in the decision — and Faction's human-to-human identity verification and authorization is its strongest and most distinctive form.
Continuous authority, event-driven presence: you are on the loop for everything, and in the loop exactly where the stakes demand it.
Through our partnership with iVALT, Faction is integrating a Digital Trust platform that turns identity into provable human authority. Through Human-Bound Identity™ — biometrics bound to device PKI as the cryptographic proof of the responsible human, with contextual attributes such as GPS and time layered on to further reduce the attack surface — iVALT delivers a step-up with provable human authority at the moments that carry real risk — confirming a responsible person approved a privileged or irreversible action and remains accountable for it. Read the announcement →
Critically, iVALT runs inside the Faction network — its authentication traffic never touches the public internet, so there's no internet-facing identity service to intercept, spoof, or attack. An AI agent has no accountability of its own — it inherits it from a human. iVALT's PKI makes that binding cryptographic: each agent carries a cryptographically verifiable identity derived from its human sponsor, so its actions stay bounded and auditable against the person who authorized them.
Most access runs on Tier 1. Step up to a verified human only where a use case demands it — including holding one accountable for the actions of AI agents. Tiers 1–3 verify the person; Tier 4 verifies the decision.
Verified people who know each other approve a high-stakes action live — video or in person — entirely inside your network, with no third party in the path. The highest tier of assurance.
A cryptographically verified, responsible human identity bound to the Faction key — AI-resistant, no PIN fallback.
Face ID, Touch ID, or Windows Hello confirms an authorized person is present.
Cryptographic device identity — out-of-band, no credentials to phish. The baseline for every Faction.
- Passwordless, biometric, AI-resistant human identity verification
- Re-verified at approval — presence confirmed at authorization, closing the session-hijacking gap
- Human-bound authority and accountability at the point of action
- Identity-bound governance for AI agents, tied to a verified human sponsor
- Cryptographically signed, fully auditable identity behind every action
Announced June 2026 and now in joint development. Talk to us about early access. See the partnership →
Own your trust. Keep your peace of mind.
The new threat environment calls for a new Zero Trust model. We'd welcome the chance to show you how Faction puts you in control and secures your critical systems and assets rapidly with low cost and IT overhead.