From Zero to Certified: Your First AI Agent on BorealisMark

You've built an AI agent. It works well, it's deployed, it's serving users. But when someone asks "how do I know I can trust this?" — you don't have a concrete answer beyond "we tested it thoroughly."

This walkthrough takes you from zero to a certified AI agent on BorealisMark in about 15 minutes. By the end, your agent will have a verifiable trust score, a public profile, and an embeddable badge that proves its certification status to anyone who checks.

Step 1: Create Your BorealisMark Account

Head to borealismark.com and click Sign In. Create your account with an email address and password. This is your identity across the entire Borealis ecosystem — the same account works on Terminal, Academy, and Protocol.

Once you're in, you'll land on your dashboard. This is home base for managing your agents, viewing scores, and accessing your API keys.

Step 2: Register Your AI Agent

From the dashboard, navigate to Register Agent. You'll provide:

Hit Register. Your agent gets a unique identifier (like `agent_c2a576ac7e9744e0925c`) and appears in your dashboard with an initial status of "Unverified."

Step 3: Understand the Certification Process

Your agent's BM Score is calculated across five dimensions:

Constraint Adherence (35%) — Does your agent stay within its defined boundaries?

Decision Transparency (28%) — Can your agent's reasoning be traced and audited?

Behavioral Consistency (20%) — Does your agent produce predictable outputs for similar inputs?

Anomaly Rate (15%) — How often does your agent produce unexpected results?

Audit Completeness (18%) — Are your agent's operations fully logged?

Each dimension is scored individually, then combined into your composite BM Score (0-100). The score determines your tier: Platinum (90+), Gold (75-89), Silver (60-74), Bronze (40-59), or Unverified (below 40).

Step 4: Complete Your First Audit

The initial audit evaluates your agent against the five dimensions based on the information and access you provide. The more comprehensive your operational data and logs, the more accurate your initial score will be.

The audit process examines:

After the audit completes, your agent receives its initial BM Score. This score is immediately SHA-256 hashed and committed to Hedera Hashgraph — creating a tamper-proof, publicly verifiable record of your certification.

Step 5: Check Your Public Profile

Every certified agent gets a public verification page accessible through the BorealisMark API:

https://api.borealismark.com/v1/verify/YOURAGENTID

This returns your agent's current trust score, tier, certification status, and a disclaimer noting that the BM Score is an algorithmic opinion and not a regulatory certification. Anyone can hit this endpoint — no authentication required. This is intentional: trust verification should be frictionless.

You can also access your agent's badge as an SVG:

https://api.borealismark.com/v1/verify/YOURAGENTID/badge.svg

This generates a real-time badge showing your agent's current tier and score. It updates automatically as your score changes.

Step 6: Embed Your Trust Badge

The trust badge is your certification's public face. Embed it anywhere your agent has a presence:

The JS embed creates an interactive badge that users can click to see your full verification details.

Every badge you embed is a backlink to BorealisMark and a signal to users that your agent is independently evaluated. It's marketing and accountability in a single image.

Step 7: Monitor and Improve

Your BM Score isn't static. It updates with each audit cycle as new behavioral data is collected. To improve your score over time:

Tighten your constraints — Well-defined, consistently enforced boundaries directly improve your constraint adherence score.

Improve your logging — More comprehensive decision logs boost both decision transparency and audit completeness scores.

Test for consistency — Regular testing with equivalent inputs helps you identify and address behavioral drift before it affects your score.

Investigate anomalies — When anomalies occur, understand why. Reducing anomaly frequency improves your anomaly rate score, and the investigation itself demonstrates responsible operation.

Maintain audit coverage — Ensure every operation your agent performs is captured in audit logs. Gaps in coverage directly reduce your audit completeness score.

What Comes Next

With a verified BM Score, your agent is eligible for Borealis Terminal — the trust-gated marketplace where developers buy and sell AI services with reputation backing every transaction. A higher trust score means more visibility on Terminal and more confidence from potential customers.

Your certification also contributes to the broader ecosystem. Every certified agent makes the case for AI accountability stronger. Every public badge tells the market that trust evaluation isn't theoretical — it's operational, it's verifiable, and it's here.

The Standard Plan

Registration and initial certification on the Standard plan is free. It includes:

Pro and Elite plans (coming soon) will offer additional features for teams managing multiple agents, advanced analytics, priority audit cycles, and dedicated support.

Ready to certify your first agent? Start at borealismark.com. Registration takes about 5 minutes.