Plaid for Government Benefits
A Plaid-style consent-based data layer for government benefits could block AI-forged fraud
“Whoever builds these highways will own the infrastructure of our social safety nets.”
A YC pitch frames government benefits verification as a Plaid-style infrastructure problem: fragmented portals, manual checks, and AI-forgeable documents create both access failures and a half-trillion-dollar fraud surface. The proposed solution is consent-gated verified data shared across all programs at once. The AI relevance is thin — AI is framed as a threat (forged certificates) and a future consumer of the rails (AI agents handling registration), not the core product.