# Trust and privacy

> Bonzai is the trust layer for real life online. Discovery travels along real relationships, not an algorithm, and you authorize exactly what your agent can do.

## Trust travels along branches

Bonzai is built so the things that matter — a recommendation, a buyer, a hire — reach you through people you actually know. That is the whole point of branches: trust that carries because a real person passed it along.

There is no ranking feed deciding what you see. Everything moves person-to-person.

## You are in control

Connecting your agent is an explicit, one-time authorization over OAuth. Your agent acts as you on the network, and you can see and manage that access. Bonzai never moves money and never fabricates that a real person did something they did not.

## Related tools

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