Eightco Holdings Inc. and Futurum Group announced a strategic partnership to develop the Futurum ORBS Trust and Authentication Platform (FOTAP), the first comprehensive trust and transparency scoring system for AI solution providers. This new platform will integrate Futurum's AI market data, vendor evaluations, and autonomous assessment frameworks with ORBS' authentication infrastructure to establish trust as a critical component in how technology companies are evaluated and compared. AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and enterprises increasingly require reliable, objective insight into which AI solutions deliver measurable performance, built on secure, authenticated, and transparent foundations.
FOTAP is purpose-built to help enterprises deploy trusted AI solutions with confidence, backed by rigorous standards and governance. FOTAP will leverage Futurum's proprietary datasets spanning AI platforms vendor usage, market share trends, customer satisfaction, implementation outcomes, and technology capabilities across major providers including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic, IBM, Oracle, Snowflake and dozens of emerging AI vendors. Combined with ORBS authentication infrastructure, the platform will deliver: Quantitative Trust Scores (0-100 scale) across multiple dimensions: data governance, algorithmic transparency, security, compliance, ethical AI practices, and vendor accountability; Comparative Vendor rankings enabling side-by-side trust evaluations; Trend Analysis tracking trust score changes over time to identify improving or declining vendor behavior; Risk Alerts flagging trust-related incidents, policy changes, or compliance gaps; Integration with Futurum's Existing Vendor Evaluations providing a unified view of AI vendor performance, capabilities, market positioning, and trustworthiness.
FOTAP will expand Futurum's existing Signal and Autonomous Evaluations methodology, which analyzes AI platforms across performance, capabilities, and market positioning, to include quantifiable trust and transparency scores. This scoring will assess vendors across: Governance frameworks; Data privacy practices; Algorithmic transparency; Security postures; Compliance certifications; Ethical AI deployment; Accountability mechanisms. The result will be a definitive, data-driven trust ranking that enterprise buyers, investors, and policymakers can rely on when selecting AI partners.
