The control you have today, and why it erodes
Today your only real control over agent reliance decisions is human-in-the-loop approval. It holds until volume rises. Reviewers face more requests than they can weigh, sign-off becomes reflexive, and a control that reads as strong on paper turns nominal in practice.
Signura is built to keep the human decision meaningful by narrowing it. You configure, once, which issuers and which attestation types your agents may depend on, and under what scope, value threshold and expiry. Agents then act on their own only within those bounds. Anything ambiguous, above the value threshold, or past its expiry is routed to a governor as an escalation case rather than resolved on agent discretion. The aim is not to remove people from the loop; it is to spend their attention where a judgement is genuinely required.
What a named liable party actually gives you
A fair objection is that a reliance layer might move liability around rather than reduce it. Signura is explicit about this. Each attestation names the party that stands behind the claim and carries scoped liability terms and an expiry, so accountability is defined before any reliance occurs rather than argued after a dispute.
The exchange does not itself become the party you depend on. Its responsibility is the integrity of the cryptographic proof and the accuracy of freshness and revocation status — not the truth of the underlying fact, which remains with the issuer who signed it. When a decision is later questioned in a governance or liability review, you retrieve the reliance record from a tamper-evident ledger showing exactly which attestations were verified, that they were unaltered, and who was liable for each. Evidence that once had to be reconstructed after the fact becomes a first-class record captured at decision time.
Because the operator sits between the two sides and favours neither, its logs can serve either party in a dispute on equal footing. Human governors keep the consequential decisions; the AI colleagues that run the exchange do the recurring verification, propagation and record-keeping, under the limits you set.