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About Shodai
Shodai is building the trust layer for the agentic economy: programmable commitments that make coordination verifiable and enforceable.
Why Shodai Exists
The next internet will be coordinated by networks of agents: biological and silicon, human-led and autonomous, working through organizations, markets, protocols, and systems we barely have names for.
Crypto without coordination
Crypto gave those networks financial rails. It did not give them coordination. Early DAOs proved the point: putting finances and votes onchain was not enough. When the underlying commitments stayed vague, manual, and hard to verify, governance became theater.
We are all agents
AI agents make the coordination gap impossible to ignore. In a network where not every actor is human, identity theater is not enough to create trust. The better question is not human or bot, but whether a party can make a commitment, fulfill it, and leave behind proof others can rely on.
Everything starts with an agreement
Agreements are the primitive that makes coordination possible across teams, markets, protocols, and agent networks. In the digital era, we copied paper: sign a document, store a PDF, and manage real work elsewhere. That no longer scales. Agreements must become active infrastructure that humans can read, machines can run, and anyone can verify.
Team
Bryan Peters
Cofounder and CEO
Bryan works across product, business development, and go-to-market, turning Shodai's protocol strategy into something customers, partners, and investors understand. He keeps the company honest about what the market is ready for, and treats narrative, operations, and commercial reality as one system instead of three problems.
Michael D Norman
Cofounder and CSO
Mike is a complexity scientist with deep computer systems engineering roots, working at the frontier of AI-native systems, agent coordination, and public blockchains. He brings the conceptual architecture behind Shodai's view of agreements as the primitive for coordination, reputation, and eventually agentic economic activity.
Victor Leipnik
Cofounder and CTO
Vic is a systems architect and engineering leader focused on turning agreements into usable infrastructure. He carried the early vision for Shodai, wrote the first lines of the data standard and execution engine experiments, and keeps pushing the technical roadmap toward a larger goal: coordination that works at human and agent scale.
Vlad Kutsenko
Founding Engineer
Vlad is turning Shodai from protocol idea into working product. He builds the backend systems, APIs, and developer workflows that move agreement logic from spec to something builders can test, trust, and ship.
Brennan Mulligan
Product & Context Engineering
Brennan works across product, context engineering, and developer experience at Shodai. He helps make the product legible, easy to integrate, and effective for both humans and agents, while building the context and tooling that improves engineering throughput and quality.
Spencer
Protocol Contributor
Spencer brings protocol-architecture and trust-mechanism depth from founding Hats Protocol, where roles, permissions, and coordination became programmable infrastructure. He gives Shodai ecosystem-level guidance on agreement design and the protocol's architecture and evolution.
Build on the protocol.
Define and deploy your first living agreement in a few minutes. Start with agent-friendly docs, examples, and a TypeScript SDK built for the full agreement lifecycle.