Enterprise Trust Gateway

A trust layer for work that crosses company boundaries.

ClearContracts helps enterprises verify and authorize vendors, contractors, partners, customers, and digital systems across organizational boundaries.

Connect existing identity and enterprise systems through shared trust infrastructure — without creating another centralized repository of sensitive data.

The problem

Enterprise identity stops at the edge of the organization.

Internal identity systems work well for employees. They become much less effective when a business needs to coordinate with external organizations and users.

Every new relationship can require

01

Repeated identity and credential checks

02

Manual onboarding and document collection

03

Separate accounts across multiple systems

04

Custom integrations between organizations

05

Ongoing certification and eligibility reviews

06

Duplicated compliance records

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Limited visibility into external access and authorization

These processes are expensive because every enterprise is independently rebuilding the same trust.

The solution

Reusable, verifiable trust between enterprises.

ClearContracts creates a shared framework for verifying external parties and controlling what they can do.

An organization can confirm that a person or business has been approved by a trusted issuer, satisfies a required policy, and remains eligible — without receiving every underlying record.

The result is faster onboarding, less duplicated verification, stronger privacy, and a consistent audit trail across participating organizations.

Enterprise capabilities

The shared controls required to establish external trust.

Organizational and external-user identity

Vendor and contractor onboarding

Professional credential verification

Policy-based access and authorization

Reusable compliance attestations

Privacy-preserving eligibility checks

Credential expiration and revocation

Multi-organization approvals

System and AI-agent authorization

Cross-enterprise audit evidence

How it fits

Connect the systems you already operate.

Each enterprise retains its own systems, policies, and data. The shared trust layer communicates only the proofs and permissions needed to complete the transaction.

Identity and access management platforms

Okta
Auth0
Microsoft Entra

HR and contractor management systems

SAP SuccessFactors
Oracle HCM

ERP and procurement platforms

SAP
Oracle
DocuSign

Compliance and risk systems

Microsoft
Google Cloud
Atlassian

Customer and partner portals

Salesforce
Auth0
Microsoft

Industry credential registries

Credly
Microsoft
Adobe

Internal applications and APIs

Google Cloud
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
Atlassian

Example workflow

External workforce onboarding

  1. 01

    A contractor is verified by an approved employer or credential issuer.

  2. 02

    Required certifications and eligibility information are issued as verifiable credentials.

  3. 03

    A participating enterprise checks those credentials against its own access policy.

  4. 04

    Access is granted only to the required systems and resources.

  5. 05

    Expired, suspended, or revoked credentials automatically affect authorization.

  6. 06

    Each organization retains evidence of the decision without duplicating all underlying personal data.

Business value

Reduce the cost of establishing trust.

Faster onboarding

Verify existing credentials instead of restarting the process for every relationship.

Less sensitive data exposure

Request proof of eligibility rather than collecting unnecessary personal records.

Consistent policy enforcement

Apply enterprise rules across partners, vendors, and external systems.

Stronger auditability

Maintain verifiable evidence of who was authorized, why access was granted, and which policy applied.

Lower integration burden

Use a common trust layer instead of maintaining separate point-to-point integrations with every partner.

Illustrative cost model

What can manual onboarding cost a Fortune 500?

Estimate the annual labor behind identity checks, document collection, approvals, and access provisioning. Adjust the assumptions to reflect your workforce and operating model.

25,000

Each case represents an employee, contractor, vendor, partner, or other person requiring identity and access onboarding.

2 hours

Manual time spent verifying evidence, granting access, and recording the required approvals.

$100

Blended billable or fully loaded cost across HR, IT, security, compliance, and operations teams.

Illustrative annual onboarding labor cost$5M

25,000 cases × 2 hours per case × $100 per hour

Annual labor time
50,000 hours
Cost per onboarding case
$200

Illustrative estimate only. Scenario bounds are not benchmarks. The model excludes software, rework, recurring reviews, and the business cost of delays.

Initial use cases

Start where manual trust is repeated.

The strongest use cases involve multiple organizations, repeated verification, and expensive manual trust processes.

Start with one workflow

Stop rebuilding trust for every new relationship.

ClearContracts can help identify the first high-value workflow, define the trust model, and integrate it with your existing infrastructure.

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