Who is authorized to act?
European Business Wallets connect legal-person identity, agent identity, bounded mandates, current status, policy decisions, and action receipts.
Read the control-plane paperSpherity Research
Evidence-led work on Digital Product Passports (DPPs), organizational identity, verifiable credentials, European Business Wallets (EBW), trusted AI, and the cryptographic infrastructure behind the real economy.
Research scope
Spherity Research examines how organizations and products can establish identity, authority, provenance, and trustworthy evidence across regulated digital systems. The research agenda includes Digital Product Passports (DPPs), Digital Battery Passports (DBPs), trusted data sharing across Data Spaces and Digital Data Sharing Corridors, European Business Wallet (EBW) policy, Trusted AI, AI-agent authorization, AI Service Passports (AISP), Industrial AI evidence graphs, Physical AI, post-quantum organizational-identity corridors, and operational resilience.
Market position
Gartner® published the Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport — Established Vendors on 6 July 2026. Spherity is positioned as the sole vendor in the Pioneers quadrant. [1]
At Spherity, we see our identity-first strategy as the foundation for a wider trust architecture that extends from physical-product DPPs to AI Service Passports for AI systems and services. This extension reflects our own strategic outlook and was not part of Gartner's DPP evaluation.
Spherity treats the Gartner placement as one independent market perspective. Spherity's own view is that its technology leadership in identity-first and cyber-secure DPP infrastructure rests on its architecture, regulated production experience and partner ecosystem. The strategic objective is to make product data trustworthy, usable across company boundaries and suitable for automated decisions.
[1] Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport — Established Vendors, 6 July 2026, Gartner document 8098797.
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Trusted Industrial AI
Regulated AI needs separate, interoperable evidence for legal authority and for the facts supporting a decision.
European Business Wallets connect legal-person identity, agent identity, bounded mandates, current status, policy decisions, and action receipts.
Read the control-plane paperEvidence graphs connect provenance, validation, freshness, transformations, conflicts, uncertainty, issuer status, and auditable evidence paths.
Read the data-plane paperA valid mandate does not prove that an AI output is factually supported. Reliable evidence does not prove that an AI agent was legally authorized to act. Regulated AI systems require both layers.
Quantum-resilient trust
B2B, B2G, G2G, machine, and AI-agent ecosystems depend on proving which organization is acting, under which authority, and whether the complete trust chain remains valid as cryptography changes.
Bind legal existence, representation rights, roles, licenses, delegated authority, purpose, and validity periods into reusable organizational credentials.
Cover issuers, wallets, verifiers, trust anchors, status, revocation, registries, qVDR functions, DNSSEC, WebPKI, semantics, vendors, and long-term evidence.
Align actors, assurance, evidence horizons, trust boundaries, hybrid or post-quantum profiles, downgrade rules, lifecycle controls, and reusable conformance evidence.
Algorithm replacement alone cannot preserve legal reliance when counterparties, trust anchors, status services, lifecycle controls, and evidence do not migrate coherently.
Read the PQC Corridor paperResearch library
Long-form papers, roadmaps, and visual explainers for decision-makers building trustworthy digital ecosystems.
HTML + PDF A management brief and full research paper on CRA-capable DPPs for SBOM, VEX, evidence graphs, cyber assurance, and product lifecycle evidence.
HTML + PDF An energy data-X case study showing how European Business Wallets, governed market roles, and policy engines enable controlled DPP, DBP, and BESS data access.
HTML + PDF Spherity's identity-first DPP and DBP strategy, Gartner® Pioneers position, EBW convergence, cyber-secure product data, and Trusted AI outlook.
HTML + PDF An evidence-led 2026 outlook on ten German companies spanning Industrial AI, Physical AI, agentic commerce, and cross-company trust infrastructure.
HTML + PDF A two-plane architecture for authorized DPP and DBP transactions, decentralized product evidence, BESS, and European Business Wallets.
HTML + PDF A data-plane architecture for Industrial AI that links provenance, validation, freshness, and issuer-bound claims into auditable evidence paths.
HTML + PDF The control-plane architecture for proving who an AI agent represents, which mandate applies, and whether each cross-company action is permitted.
HTML + PDF A governance and systems architecture for organizational identity, quantum-safe trust infrastructure, business wallets, and repeatable PQC Corridors.
HTML An attack taxonomy, macro-economic risk model, and migration strategy for post-quantum identity corridors.
HTML Milestones, dependencies, standards, and adoption gates for the European Business Wallet under eIDAS 2.0.
A cross-domain escalation and operational-readiness model for German and European decision-makers.
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Research agenda
The agenda connects product data, identity, data sharing, technology, law, policy, and operations instead of treating them as separate systems.
Trust architectures for DPPs and Digital Battery Passports (DBPs), including identifiers, provenance, lifecycle claims, access rights, and compliance evidence.
Verifiable legal existence, representation, mandates, and accountability for companies, machines, and autonomous agents.
Legal and operational infrastructure for trusted cross-border processes, interoperable Data Spaces, and Digital Data Sharing Corridors.
PQC Corridors and crypto-agile migration paths for identity, trust anchors, registries, and long-lived evidence.
Legal authorization, evidence provenance, and accountable action receipts for governed Industrial AI, Physical AI, and agentic commerce.
Open research
The publication source is maintained openly on GitHub for stable linking, transparent revision, and long-term discoverability.
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