Arthur Palyan dba Levels Of Self

AI governance and compliance for autonomous and agentic AI systems.

Valencia, City of Santa Clarita, County of Los Angeles, California

Prepared for a prime evaluating this firm as a subcontractor. Four questions, answered in order: is he real, is he certified, what does he own on your bid, and can you check it yourself. Every credential below states its own expiry and its own source.

Section 1 of 6 · Certifications

Certifications and registrations

ProgramIdentifierStatusThrough
City of Los Angeles, SBE and EBE
Small Business Enterprise and Emerging Business Enterprise
RAMP profile 221725 Certified 2028-02-29
LA County, LSBE
Local Small Business Enterprise, 15% bid preference
#100663 Certified 02/2028
State of California, Small Business
CA SB program
#2050529 Approved 2028-02-29
City of Los Angeles, LBPP
Local Business Preference Program, City Ordinance 188111. Certification requires an affidavit filed on RAMP and listed before the bid due date. A workplace in the County is the eligibility criterion, not the certification.
No affidavit on record Not claimed -
SAM.gov federal registration
Purpose of registration: All Awards
UEI Q82DA4R75YC3, CAGE 19R10 Active 2027-03-02
Small Disadvantaged Business, self-certified
SAM business type code 27. Self-certified, not SBA-certified: the SBA business type list on the entity record is empty. Live-verified against the SAM entity API 2026-07-15.
SAM entity record, UEI Q82DA4R75YC3 Active 2027-03-02
Commercial General Liability insurance
$1M each occurrence / $2M aggregate
Cert #352998229 Active 2027-03-05
LA County CBE, Community Business Enterprise
Includes County MBE participation. Approved by the LA County Office of Small Business.
Certification #100664, vendor #229877 Certified 2028-07-31
MBE, Minority Owned Business Enterprise
City of LA participation target
County CBE #100664 does not transfer to City MBE City MBE not held -

City of LA SBE/EBE, LA County LSBE, the City of LA LBPP, and the State of California Small Business program are four separate programs. They are not the same certification and are not blended here.

Section 2 of 6 · The honest part

What we will not claim

City MBE is not held. The LA County CBE certification (#100664, vendor #229877), which includes County MBE participation, is now approved and valid through 2028-07-31. Per the City of Los Angeles inter-agency certification recognition chart, a County CBE or MBE is not recognized toward the City of LA MBE participation target, so this firm does not address that target, and this page will not imply otherwise.

The governance framework has governed exactly one production system: ours, since February 2026. There is no external client yet. We state that plainly. Here is why it still counts in your favor: the artifacts are real, they are open source, and anyone can audit every line before this firm's name goes into a proposal. Most subcontractors hand you a brochure. The next two sections are things you can run.

External certification claims: 0. The live figure is rendered below from state.json, not typed here. Trust starts by showing the unflattering number too.

Section 3 of 6 · Your bid

What we own on your bid

Scope carried by this firm as a certified SBE/EBE subcontractor, for an AI governance and compliance workstream:

Section 4 of 6 · Not slideware

Live self-audit

We declare what is supposed to be true, check reality against it every day, and publish the result whether it flatters us or not. The figures below are read live from the system, not written into this page.

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This one panel is the only part of the page that needs JavaScript. Every credential above is static and readable without it. Source: https://api.100levelup.com/certified/state.json
Section 5 of 6 · Independent verification

Verified by someone who is not us

On 2026-07-13 a third party with no relationship to this firm independently verified the live service and published the result. GitHub user AmitabhainArunachala ran an end-to-end verification of api.100levelup.com, from the payment-protocol discovery manifest through spot-checks on each paid endpoint, and posted the finding in public on xpaysh/awesome-x402 PR #819. Their words: "Independent verification, service is live, x402 v2, all paid routes return 402 with payment instructions." They confirmed the protocol version, the seven listed resources, the settlement chain, the token, and the receiving address, all read independently off this firm's own public manifest. We did not ask for it and we did not write it.

That is the only independent verification of this firm's software that exists. We state it plainly rather than imply more. Everything else on this page resolves to a public source, and the software is open for your team to inspect and run before this firm's name goes into your proposal.

Section 6 of 6 · Inspect it

Inspect it before our name goes in your proposal

npm: mcp-nervous-system github.com/levelsofself/mcp-nervous-system Model Context Protocol registry /scan /openapi.json /llms.txt