---
type: Article
name: "What is a Curator?"
id: "https://selfe.ai/insights/glossary/what-is-a-curator"
url: "https://selfe.ai/insights/glossary/what-is-a-curator"
publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai"
description: "The part of Selfe that checks a business's facts against real evidence before they're trusted, weighing a claim differently depending on whether it comes from a verified system or an unverified source."
datePublished: "2026-09-15T16:25:20.643Z"
author: The Selfe team
---

# What is a Curator?

> The part of Selfe that checks a business's facts against real evidence before they're trusted, weighing a claim differently depending on whether it comes from a verified system or an unverified source.

## In short

- A Curator checks a business's facts against real evidence rather than accepting every claim equally.
- It's why a fact from a verified system counts for more than the same fact typed into a form.

Good for: Weighing a claim by where it came from. Not good for: Guaranteeing a fact is true, only that it's been checked against real evidence.

Not every fact arrives with the same confidence. A Curator is what applies that judgement: a number pulled from a business's own booking system is treated differently to the same number typed into a form, and a claim repeated across several independent sources counts for more than one unverified mention. It's the layer that stops an Echo from being only as reliable as whoever last edited a webpage, and it's why an AI agent checking a business's facts is checking something graded, not a flat list of unweighted claims.

## Good for

Weighing a claim by where it came from.

## Not good for

Guaranteeing a fact is true, only that it's been checked against real evidence.

## Act on this

- [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan.
- [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry.
- [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size.
- [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`.
- [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.