How It Works
From buyer intent to completed transaction: a detailed look at how autonomous agents negotiate commerce on your behalf.
The Transaction Lifecycle
AURA enables a new paradigm of commerce where AI agents handle discovery, negotiation, and transaction coordination while humans retain full control over decisions.
The process is designed around three core principles: identity abstraction (you remain anonymous until you choose to transact), data sovereignty (neither buyers nor sellers are forced to expose private data), and explicit consent (agents propose, humans approve).
Express What You Want
The process begins when a buyer expresses intent through a Scout-enabled application. This could be a shopping app, a procurement portal, or any system where purchase intent is formed.
The Scout captures the intent: what you're looking for, your constraints (budget, timing, preferences), and behavioral context. Critically, your identity is not attached. AURA Core receives the intent, not the person behind it.
- Intent includes preferences, constraints, and context
- Identity remains abstracted from the very start
- Behavioral data stays with the buyer, shared only as needed
Find Relevant Sellers
AURA Core matches registered intent against Beacon propositions. Beacons have previously signaled their willingness to participate in specific markets, without exposing their actual inventory or pricing.
Matched Beacons receive anonymized inquiries. They see the intent, not the buyer. This protects buyers from tracking and profiling while giving sellers the context they need to respond meaningfully.
- Matching based on intent, not identity
- Sellers see anonymized market signals
- No inventory or pricing exposed until negotiation
Agents Negotiate Autonomously
Beacons respond with propositions: dynamic offers based on the intent's behavioral context, current inventory state, and pricing logic. These propositions are claims, not commitments, allowing flexibility.
Scouts evaluate incoming propositions against buyer constraints. They can counter, accept, or reject. This negotiation happens autonomously, but the buyer can intervene at any point. The goal is to find mutually beneficial terms.
- Dynamic pricing based on context, not identity
- Autonomous negotiation within defined constraints
- Buyer can intervene or override at any point
Human Approves, Identity Revealed
When terms are agreed, the Scout presents the final offer to the buyer for explicit approval. Only at this moment, when the human consents, is identity revealed to the seller, and only to the extent necessary for fulfillment.
AURA Core coordinates payment and delivery. The transaction completes with both parties having exchanged only what was necessary. No tracking cookies, no behavioral profiles, no platform extraction.
- Explicit human consent required before any commitment
- Identity revealed only for fulfillment purposes
- Minimal data exchange, maximum privacy
What Makes This Different
Privacy by Design
Identity abstraction is not an afterthought. From the first moment of intent registration, buyers are anonymous. Sellers never get tracking data.
Seller Protection
Sellers signal willingness to participate without exposing inventory or pricing. They respond to intent, not bots scraping their catalogs.
Human in the Loop
Agents negotiate, but humans decide. Every transaction requires explicit consent. No autopilot purchases, no dark patterns.
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