Counterparty trust
Network Intelligence
Use transaction history, relationship data, and shared risk signals to understand who agents are paying before the payment clears.
Signal
Trust, risk, relationship
Entity types
Addresses, domains, vendors
Use
Approve, flag, block
Capabilities
Trust signals for the recipient decision
Bring counterparty context into the moment an agent chooses who should receive funds.
Trust scoring
Score counterparties from observed payment behavior, verification context, and relationship history.
Risk alerts
Surface suspicious recipients, blocked entities, and risky payment patterns before they spread.
Relationship maps
See how agents, wallets, vendors, and organizations connect through payment activity.
Policy inputs
Use network signals as policy conditions for approvals, blocks, or trusted fast lanes.
Workflow
How counterparty context shapes payment clearance
Network signals help Conto decide whether a recipient should clear, pause for review, or be blocked before settlement.
Step 1
Observe the recipient
Conto resolves the address, domain, or vendor behind a proposed payment request.
Step 2
Evaluate trust context
The platform checks local relationships and network signals before the request settles.
Step 3
Apply the right outcome
Trusted entities can clear, unknown ones can pause, and risky recipients can be blocked.
Visibility
Recipient risk and relationship context in one view
Security, procurement, and operations teams can inspect trust scores, relationship paths, and payment outcomes together.
Outcomes
What changes when recipient trust is checked before settlement
Agents can discover counterparties without treating every new recipient as safe.
Security teams get earlier warning on bad actors and recipient drift.
Trust decisions become part of the payment record.
Related
Solution patterns that need counterparty trust
Vendor trust controls
Vendor and counterparty controls for autonomous payments
Trusted vendors should clear quickly, and new counterparties should not slip through unnoticed. Conto keeps vendor, merchant, and service-provider policy attached to the payment path so recipient drift is caught immediately.
ExploreEscalation paths
Approval routing for high-value or ambiguous payment decisions
Some payment decisions need a pause, not a hard stop. Agents can keep moving on the standard path while the payment layer pauses only the transactions that need human approval.
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