Two layers that should not be confused
National corporate registries (Companies House, state Divisions of Corporations / Sunbiz-class systems, CIPC, and peers) record legal incorporation and related statutory facts inside a jurisdiction.
AI Verified publishes selective public identity passports for commercial resolvability by search engines and answer engines — Type A eligibility, forensic hashes, structured data, and optional domain attestation.
A company number does not automatically produce AI-ready packaging. An AI Verified passport does not replace a company number where the law requires one.
Why an international identity layer still helps
- Answer engines resolve businesses across borders with inconsistent local directory quality
- SMEs outside encyclopaedic notability need a commercial identity node in every market
- Service-area, ecommerce, and SaaS tracks do not map cleanly to a single shopfront registry row
- Operators want one badge/passport pattern rather than twenty directory widgets
How AI Verified stays jurisdiction-honest
- Country and region fields on passports
- Association to real country/place concepts when validated
- No claim that Bronze equals “in good standing” at a government registry
- Gold is an optional fuller identity, not domain attestation and not a substitute filing
- Geo doctrine spokes (US, UK, South Africa, and others) explain local context without merging legal systems
Read local spokes for depth
Country- and regime-specific articles in the AI Verified wiki cover Companies House, CIPC, US state identity patterns, and related topics. This page is the rollup: one identity product, many legal backdrops.