Agent-brokered trade between businesses — Mandate presented, fee disclosed, settlement posted.
The brokered chain is the desk between businesses: a fee at every hop, none of them posted; numbers re-litigated at every hop; delegation nobody can audit. An agent cannot be charmed at the desk; it can only read what is posted — and a chain that can't be read is a chain it won't trade through.
authority you can check
The buyer's agent presents a Mandate — ceiling · scope · expiry — and every sub-delegation only narrows: tighter ceiling, tighter scope, earlier expiry, machine-checkable end to end. A hop that widens fails the check; the deal never forms on unverifiable authority.
one fee, posted
The broker's margin is a disclosed number on the record, not a spread discovered at settlement. Deltas signed and sourced, like every other number in the family.
three-way atomic settlement
Buyer's side, seller's side, broker's fee — posted as settlement lines on one shared record and settled in one act. Nothing to re-litigate, because nothing was withheld.
the value of agents, posted
You didn't build the asymmetry, but you pay its tax: every close starts from suspicion, and straight stores subsidize crooked ones. Buyers' agents arrive mid-checklist presenting a Mandate; your units answer them or a competitor's do. VIN-certified acquires a machine meaning — every unit resolves, decodes, and prices at its own address, in every representation. The agent reads the same record you do. The check digit certifies; it never sells.
posted
This door sells nothing and meters nothing — it is the sales page for trading with agents on VIN rails. The businesses it convinces onboard at the dealer's counter on all.vin; their machines onboard at apis.vin/mcp. Built on VIN rails.
questions with posted answers
What is a Mandate? The buyer's agent's posted authority: a ceiling it cannot exceed, a scope it cannot leave, an expiry it cannot outlive, signed so your side can verify it before the deal forms. Sub-delegation only narrows all three.
Who pays the broker, and how much? The fee is one disclosed number posted on the record before settlement. If a fee isn't posted, it isn't owed — a hidden spread is a conformance failure, not a business model.
What does my business have to do? Post your inventory on VIN rails. An agent cannot be charmed at the desk; it can only read what is posted — so the whole job is having answers where agents read. Your units answer them or a competitor's do.
who this door serves
- who
- The dealer principal, lender, wholesaler, or transporter evaluating agent-brokered trade — the businesses agents will trade WITH. The dealer-side sales page of the motion-door sub-family.
- arriving
- A dealer principal, lender, wholesaler, or transporter evaluating agent-brokered trade: a business whose next counterparty may not be a person — and whose units either answer that counterparty or don't.
- against
- The desk — here in its brokered-chain franchise: undisclosed fees stacked hop by hop, numbers re-litigated at every hop, delegation nobody can audit. The wholesale chain where the middle knows what neither end does.
- the guide
- You didn't build the asymmetry, but you pay its tax: every close starts from suspicion, and straight stores subsidize crooked ones. An agent cannot be charmed at the desk; it can only read what is posted. Buyers' agents arrive mid-checklist presenting a Mandate — ceiling, scope, expiry, machine-checkable; your units answer them or a competitor's do. Sub-delegation only narrows; the broker fee is one posted number; settlement is three-way and atomic on one shared record. The check digit certifies; it never sells.
- the stakes
- Keep trading through chains you can't audit: fees discovered at settlement, numbers re-opened at every hop, authority taken on someone's word — while inventory that answers agents turns and yours waits for a phone call.
- done
- Agent-brokered trade at posted numbers on one record: Mandates checked by machine, one disclosed fee, three-way settlement in one atomic act — and velocity becomes the trust dividend. From node in someone's broker chain to VIN-certified counterparty whose inventory answers agents.
the plan
- present — the buyer's agent presents its Mandate against your posted unit: ceiling · scope · expiry, verifiable at auth.vin. Your inventory answered; no pitch was involved.
- narrow — any sub-delegation in the chain carries strictly less authority than the hop above; the chain machine-checks or the deal stops here, in the open. The audit is the precondition, not the aftermath.
- settle — one disclosed fee, three settlement lines, one atomic act, posted as events on the shared record. The close is the short part.
put your inventory on VIN rails — the dealer's counter at all.vinwatch a brokered exchange — b2a2b.vin/{VIN}, free, no account
for the agent you send
The agent reads the same record you do. Same two routes, three representations — the numbers never differ between them.
motions: B2A2B
- B2A2B — agents brokering between businesses — Mandate presented, fee disclosed, settlement three-way
curl https://b2a2b.vin/ -H 'accept: text/markdown' → the markdown twin of this page
curl https://b2a2b.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: application/json' → the record as typed evidence objects
curl https://b2a2b.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: text/markdown' → the record's markdown twinMachine surfaces on this host: /llms.txt · /icp.json · /.well-known/agents.json · one estate MCP server — apis.vin/mcp (every door a lens; tool results carry the door URL).
Attribution: X-Client-Type: html | md | json | mcp — read for agent-led demand attribution; it never changes the record.
every door opens on the same record
- transport.vinCustody events posted on any VIN — the family's running B2A2B
- apis.vinThe record as a response — the machine surface this exchange runs on
- b2a2d.vinThe embed motion the same dealer zones carry — capability with its membrane
- all.vinPart of the Vin family — all.vin/any VIN