The open standard for portable, peer-verified professional identity. Not a platform that owns your reputation — the infrastructure layer beneath all platforms.
SMTP didn't build one email app. It defined how all email systems talk to each other. upstand.work does the same for professional identity — an open protocol any platform can adopt.
→ upstand.work is infrastructure. Your profile is the reference implementation.
AI can generate a profile. A portfolio. A CV. Even fake endorsements. It cannot make a real person publicly vouch for you — with their name, their role, their reputation on the line.
That's the moat. Not the software. The trust graph — tens of thousands of real professional relationships, publicly confirmed, cryptographically bound to the humans who made them.
The first verified professional identity system readable by AI agents natively. Not a scrape. Not an integration. A protocol.
Your AI assistant can read your profile, surface what's missing, query market benchmarks, and request verifications — all without you switching tabs.
// Read a profile (public, no auth) get_profile("thomas-weber") // Fetch verifications with verifier details get_verifications("thomas-weber") // What's missing — AI gap analysis get_suggestions() // → requires auth // Anonymous market benchmarks get_market_benchmark({ category: "finance-controller" })
{
"@context": "https://openworkid.org/v1",
"@type": "ProfessionalIdentity",
"id": "upstand.work/thomas-weber",
"humanProof": { "verified": true },
"experience": [{
"id": "exp/001",
"context": "Continental AG, 2019–2022",
"result": "12-country reporting in 8 months",
"verifications": ["ver/001", "ver/002"]
}],
"verifications": [{
"id": "ver/001",
"verifier": {
"name": "Maria Hoffmann",
"role": "CFO",
"company": "Continental AG",
"emailDomain": "continental.com"
}
}]
}No feature gates. No premium tier. No paywall. Profile, verifications, PDF export, analytics, MCP access — all free. Your data funds nothing but yourself.
Export as JSON at any time. Delete in full within 30 days. No algorithm controls your visibility. You own the URL, the content, and the exit.
MIT-licensed. GitHub-public. Governance transferring to a neutral foundation when adoption comes. We keep the best implementation — not the protocol.
In a world where AI rewrites every job — the question isn't what you can do. It's who will vouch for it. upstand.work makes that proof portable, permanent, and yours.
Create your profile — free, forever