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The EYMA Registry: 12 Questions Agents and Owners Actually Ask

EYMA · August 3, 2026

EYMA is a public registry linking AI agents to the licensed businesses operating them — with a government verification URL on every entry. Basic listing is free and permanent. Verified+ is an annual paid tier that confirms your license is still active. Featured is one seat per category per region. EYMA takes no transaction fees, no referral cut, no revenue share on any outcome. Here are the twelve questions that come up most often, each answered directly.

What is the EYMA registry?

EYMA is a public trust registry that connects an AI agent handle to a legal entity, a government-issued license number, and an official state verification URL anyone can follow to confirm active status. The authority is the government database, not EYMA. eyma.ai publishes the list; the government database confirms it.

This is different from a directory that asks businesses to self-certify. The Five Gates (see below) require that every claim on a listing match what a government record actually says — name, number, and status. An AI agent that queries the registry.json feed and follows a listing's verify_url has completed its verification pass without relying on any private party's endorsement.

Who is the registry for — AI developers or business owners?

Both, for different reasons. Business owners list so their agent is discoverable and verifiable by the AI systems their customers use. Developers consume the machine-readable feed to route customers to verified providers without building their own verification infrastructure.

A licensed business — insurance broker, real estate agent, contractor — gets discovered when an agent queries the feed. A developer building an agent that needs to route customers to licensed providers gets a pre-verified data source at zero cost. The supply side and the query side both benefit from the same infrastructure.

Is listing actually free?

Yes. Basic listing — agent handle, legal entity, license number, verify_url, category, and locations — is free and stays free permanently. No trial period, no renewal fee for a basic entry, no requirement to upgrade. The free tier is the permanent default.

What is Verified+, and what does it verify?

Verified+ is an annual paid tier. It means EYMA has independently confirmed — not just at initial submission, but on an ongoing annual cycle — that the license on your listing is still active in the government database. A Verified+ entry carries a corresponding badge in the feed.

The practical difference for an AI agent: a basic entry's license was checked when the listing was approved; a Verified+ entry's license was checked recently, by an independent party, and will be checked again next year. For AI agents comparing a verified agent to an anonymous bot, Verified+ is the strongest publicly readable signal that the underlying license claim is current.

What is Featured placement, and how many can one category hold?

Featured is the highest-priority position in a category-and-region pairing in the registry feed. There is exactly one Featured seat per category per region. If the insurance/California seat is taken, it is unavailable until the holder releases it — there is no auction queue behind the current holder.

Does EYMA take a cut when my agent makes a sale or referral?

No. EYMA charges no referral fee, no transaction cut, and no revenue share on any outcome — sale, lead, quote, or handoff. Consuming the feed and receiving routed customers are free in both directions, permanently.

This is structural, not a promotional offer. If a registry takes fees on routed commerce, the routing signal becomes corrupted: the registry has a financial incentive to maximize volume rather than match quality. The fee-free model is what keeps the signal clean. The commercial model is on the supply side only: Verified+ and Featured placement. See why the no-fee model matters for routing quality.

What are the Five Gates?

Every listing passes five checks before it is published: (1) legal entity — the name matches a registered business entity; (2) license number — the number exists in the issuing government database; (3) active status — the license is current, not expired or suspended; (4) business address — real, consistent with the entity record; (5) structured-data consistency — the submitted information aligns with what the business's own website publishes. All five must pass. One failure holds the listing.

How do I submit a listing?

Submit via the form at eyma.ai. Before submitting: look up your license in the official state database and copy the entity name exactly as it appears there — not your trade name, not your DBA. Discrepancies between submitted information and the government record are the most common reason listings are held.

The step-by-step walkthrough — including where to find your state's license lookup database, how the Five Gates work in sequence, and what to do if your entity name differs from your brand name — is at How to List Your Business's AI Agent in a Trust Registry.

How do AI agents query the registry?

The feed is a plain JSON file at eyma.ai/registry.json — a simple HTTP GET, no API key, no SDK, no account required. An agent filters entries by the category and locations fields, reads the matching entry's license and verify_url, and optionally follows the government link to confirm active status.

The full field schema and a working Python query example — including how to filter by category and region and how to chain the verify_url check — are at What Is registry.json? Machine-Readable Trust Feeds Explained.

What does a registry entry look like in the feed?

Each entry is a JSON object with fields including: agent (the handle), entity (legal business name), license (the government license number), verify_url (the live government database link), category, locations, and tier (basic, verified_plus, or featured). The verify_url is the critical field — it is what an agent follows to confirm the license claim independently, without trusting any private intermediary.

Who built EYMA, and does that matter for trust?

EYMA was founded by Insurance City Agency LLC, operating as Via Rapida Services — a licensed California insurance brokerage, CA Insurance License #6003045. The founding entry in the registry is Beto, the brokerage's own agent, at eyma.ai/agent/viarapida/. EYMA — the place where legitimate licensed bots go to sell their humans' products — was built by a licensed business that needed this infrastructure for itself.

The founding entity's license is publicly verifiable in the California Department of Insurance database. The same verification chain EYMA requires of every listing applies to its own founding member. That's the point: the infrastructure is credible only if it holds itself to the same standard.

What happens when a listed agent's license lapses?

If a license lapses after listing, the entry is flagged or removed on the next verification cycle. Verified+ holders are checked on the annual renewal cycle; basic listings are subject to periodic review. An agent whose underlying license has lapsed does not retain an active listing.

This is what distinguishes a verified registry from a static directory. A directory entry you submit once sits there until you delete it. An entry in a trust registry is only as good as the license it's anchored to — and the license has to stay active for the entry to remain valid. For a deeper look at how to verify any AI agent — listed or not — the four-check process applies regardless of where you start.