> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.natural.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Parties

> Understanding parties in the Natural ecosystem

Parties represent the core identity unit in the Natural ecosystem and are used throughout the platform for managing [Users](/guides/concepts/users), creating [Agents](/guides/concepts/agents),
owning [Wallets](/guides/concepts/wallets), delegating [Payments](/guides/concepts/payments) authority to agents, and more. Our [Dashboard](/guides/platform/dashboard) product is the best way to interact with parties.

Natural supports two types of parties: Individuals and Businesses. Most developers will sign up as Businesses in order to invite their team members. Businesses also have domain-claiming capabilities
that prevent another party from using the same domain. Both Individuals and Businesses have
a suite of functionality that allows for payments on the platform.

Parties run through our [Compliance](/guides/overview/compliance) program (KYB for businesses, KYC for individuals) in order to comply with federal and state authorities.

## Canonical examples

Throughout our documentation, we use these three parties as canonical examples:

### Alice Developer (Business Party)

Alice is an AI agent developer who has integrated Natural into her AI property management platform. She:

* Uses agents to automate vendor and contractor payments
* Uses Natural to allow her agents to pay her customers

### Bruce Customer (Business Party)

Bruce runs a property management company and uses Alice's agents. He:

* Onboards as Alice's customer and delegates payment authority to Alice's agents
* Uses Alice's agents to pay vendors and contractors automatically

### Terri Contractor (Individual Party)

Terri is a plumber who receives payments from businesses. He:

* Is sent money by Alice's agents on behalf of Bruce
* Signs up to claim his first payment from Bruce

## Related concepts

* [Users](/guides/concepts/users) - User accounts associated with parties
* [Agents](/guides/concepts/agents) - Autonomous agents acting on behalf of parties
* [Payments](/guides/concepts/payments) - Transferring funds between parties