Company: Nuggets
Co-founder and CCO: Seema Khinda Johnson
Website: https://www.nuggets.life/
About Nuggets
Nuggets is the trust layer for autonomous AI. We govern AI at the point of execution.
The primary AI risk in 2026 is not hallucination. It is unauthorised execution. AI agents act continuously across clouds and organisational boundaries, on behalf of multiple people and systems at once, without persistent user sessions. Traditional IAM governs who reaches a system. It cannot answer whether a specific action, by a specific agent, under a specific authority, is one the organisation has authorised right now.
That is why 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable return (MIT Media Lab, GenAI Divide). The governance to verify identity, confirm authority and produce tamper-proof audit evidence is missing.
Nuggets answers that by binding every autonomous action to a verifiable chain: a verified human (KYC), bound to a verified business (KYB), through a verified employment relationship (KYE), on a verified device (KYM), operating a verified agent (KYA). The chain compounds. Each layer is cryptographically bound to the next.
Before any action 3x3cut3s, Nuggets evaluates four primitives: Identity, Authority, Intent and Action. If any are missing, the action will not proceed. Every action produces tamper-proof cryptographic evidence that travels with it across clouds and systems. Compliance becomes a byproduct of enforcement.
Nuggets sits above identity and across clouds. It works with AWS, Azure, GCP and existing IAM, and supports W3C DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, OIDC, MCP and A2A. One trust fabric across SaaS, IoT, cross-cloud and on-premise. No other trust layer covers physical and digital in one fabric.
The regulatory window is now defined. The European Commission published its draft high-risk AI classification guidelines on 19 May 2026, making it much harder for organisations to argue their AI systems sit outside scope. DORA is live. The FCA Senior Managers Regime puts personal accountability on senior individuals for decisions delegated to AI agents. The US GSA Schedule already lists Nuggets’ Zero Trust for AI solution for federal agencies.
Recognised by Gartner in 2023, 2024 and 2025 as a global leader in decentralised identity wallets and verifiable credentials, alongside Apple, Google and Microsoft. Nuggets has worked with the Bank of England, the Bank for International Settlements, the European Commission and EBSI. ISO 27001 certified, with granted patents in the UK, US and China. Live in 150+ countries. Available via GSA MAS (Carahsoft), NASA SEWP V, US Army ITES-SW2, UK G-Cloud and AWS Marketplace.
The category Nuggets stands for is transaction authority for autonomous AI. No authority, no transaction.
Want to find out what TechRound can do for your business?
