The B2A Foundation is the independent, non-commercial governance body for the B2A economy — developing and maintaining the open standards that allow businesses, AI agents, and commercial markets to operate with mutual confidence and integrity.
No single organisation — including our founders — controls the direction of the standards we maintain.
Standards built on what is actually happening in B2A markets, not on what vendors want to be true.
The people who use these standards are the people who maintain them. Experience is the qualification.
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The B2A economy is generating governance questions that no individual organisation, technology vendor, or regulatory body can answer alone. The Foundation's first standards cycle addresses the four areas where the absence of open standards creates the most immediate commercial risk.
In development
A common data schema for Machine-Readable Value Propositions — so any evaluation agent can assess any supplier without bespoke integration for each pairing.
In development
When a procurement agent rejects a vendor without explanation, markets lose integrity. This standard defines what explanation is owed — and how vendors can challenge assessments they believe are incorrect.
Scoping
When AI agents can commit organisational funds autonomously, who is accountable when things go wrong? Standards for audit trails, approval thresholds, and override rights in autonomous commerce.
Scoping
An MRVP that cannot be independently verified is a marketing document. This standard defines what third-party verification of an MRVP requires — and what it proves.
of B2B buying AI-agent intermediated by 2028
Gartner, Nov 2025
in B2B transactions through AI agents by 2028
Gartner, Nov 2025
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