01
Publish
Advertise the Vendor Agent through legitimate first-party website surfaces that both people and machines can inspect.
Product
A direct product channel for AI researchers.
Trunkline combines discoverability, a vendor-controlled answer surface, conversation continuity, and behavioral evidence.
02
Answer
Return product-grounded answers with explicit vendor-control and commercial-bias disclosure.
03
Observe
Measure what reached the site: ordinary pages, discovery resources, bare endpoint calls, actual questions, and follow-ups.
04
Separate fact from inference
Store request behavior separately from probable client identity and confidence.
05
Continue conversations
Return a conversation ID that an external agent can reuse when it asks a follow-up.
06
Run controlled trials
Use privacy-safe trial tags and versioned experiment metadata to compare behavior across systems and variants.