New for 2026  ·  Zero-Outbound Architecture

The Zero-Outbound Conversational Commerce Engine
for High-Velocity Enterprise Trade.

Automate wholesale bulk orders, customized client negotiations, and transaction intent structuring across WhatsApp, web apps, and enterprise APIs — without ever surrendering system database keys or modifying your regulatory security perimeter.

0API Keys Ever Stored
0Outbound Calls to Your Servers
±2%Financial Guardrail Price Verification
24/7Conversational Order Processing

Enterprise Infrastructure · Independently VAPT-Audited · June 2026

The Problem with Today's AI Commerce Tools

Every other AI commerce tool demands your database keys. We built an engine that demands none.

The Old Way

AI Chatbots Today

  • Hand over live inventory API keys or database credentials to a third-party AI vendor
  • Vendor servers make constant outbound calls to your pricing or stock database on every request
  • AI can be tricked into approving 90% discounts or zero-amount orders via prompt injection
  • A supply-chain breach at your AI vendor exposes your full database admin credentials
  • Compliance teams veto integration when third-party key custody violates your security policy
  • Manual WhatsApp order processing creates staff bottlenecks and missed bulk order opportunities

The Vulcan Way

Zero-Outbound AI

  • You inject your live pricing and stock matrix per request turn — Vulcan reads it in memory, never stores it
  • Zero outbound calls from Vulcan to your production environment, enforced at the architecture level
  • Server-side math guardrail auto-blocks any quoted price that deviates more than ±2% from your injected context
  • Vulcan physically cannot store or leak your database credentials — enforced in code, not policy
  • Non-custodial architecture removes third-party key custody risk and keeps your security perimeter intact
  • Sub-2-second automated order structuring with validated JSON intent output, available 24/7

Zero-outbound is not a feature. It's our foundational legal and commercial differentiator.

By refusing to accept, store, or request client database keys or pricing credentials, Vulcan eliminates its surface area as a supply-chain attack target, keeps your security perimeter intact, and removes third-party key custody liability from your compliance team's desk.

Architecture

How Vulcan AI Works

A single stateless API call powers the entire conversational order flow. Your backend stays in control at every step. Vulcan AI provides the brain — you keep the keys.

01

You Inject Live Pricing & Inventory

On every chat turn, your backend sends your current SKU pricing and inventory constraints directly in the API request body. Vulcan reads it in-memory — zero latency, zero outbound calls, zero exposure of your internal ERP or pricing systems.

validationContext injected per-turn
02

Vulcan AI Negotiates the Order

Our AI engine engages your customer in natural conversation, quotes prices using your injected pricing matrix, validates stock constraints, verifies KYC ceilings and daily limits, and structures the order intent — all autonomously, in seconds.

AI-driven order negotiation
03

Your System Fulfills

Vulcan returns a clean, structured JSON order intent. Tier 1 enterprise backends fulfill autonomously. Tier 2/3 receive a GENERATE_INVOICE_INTENT for a human sales agent to action. Vulcan never touches inventory, funds, or execution credentials.

Structured intent → your fulfillment

POST /v1/engine/chat  ·  Stateless  ·  JSON  ·  No Webhooks  ·  No Persistent Connections

API Reference

Inbound Context Injection

One endpoint. One stateless call per turn. Your rates, your keys, your execution.

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Per-Turn Pricing Injection

Your validationContext map must be included on every single request — including mid-conversation turns. Vulcan never caches it. No cache = no staleness = no manipulation window.

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No Credentials Accepted

Your gateway key authenticates your vendor identity. Vulcan receives no ERP credentials, no database secrets, no internal admin keys — by API design.

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Server-Side Math Verification

After every AI negotiation, Vulcan recomputes the expected order total from your injected pricing. If the AI-quoted gross total deviates by more than ±2%, the order is blocked before a response is returned.

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Structured Intent Output

On order completion, you receive GENERATE_INVOICE_INTENT (Tier 2/3) or EXECUTE_TRANSACTION_INTENT (Tier 1). Your systems fulfill using your own locally-held execution credentials.

Critical Requirement

Omitting validationContexton any turn — even when the customer is just saying "yes" — returns HTTP 400 and breaks the conversational flow.

POST /v1/engine/chat
1POST https://api.vulcanai.com.ng/v1/engine/chat
2Content-Type: application/json
3x-vulcan-gateway-key: vk_live_your_secure_token_here
4 
5{
6"vendorId": "distributor_corp_001",
7"customerId": "wa_2348031234567",
8"message": "I need 200 bags of Dangote cement 50kg, what's the price?",
9"kycLevel": "Tier_2",
10"dailyLimitRemaining": 500,
11"validationContext": {
12// Your live SKU pricing — injected EVERY turn, never cached
13"cement_dangote_50kg": 8500,
14"indomie_chicken_70g_carton": 6200,
15"steel_rebar_12mm_tonne": 950000
16}
17}
vulcan-api · v1.4stateless · zero-outbound

Endpoint

POST /v1/engine/chat

Auth Header

x-vulcan-gateway-key

Response Always

HTTP 200 + reply + intent

Deployment Tiers & Pricing

Choose Your Deployment Model

Every tier runs on the same battle-tested engine. Your tier determines how trades are executed and how rates are sourced — not the quality of the AI.

TIER 3 — SELF-SERVE / WHATSAPP

Self-Serve SaaS

₦0

one-time  +  ₦5/turn + 0.5% / checkout

TIER 2 — WEBSITE / MOBILE APP

Native App

₦5,000,000

one-time  +  ₦1,500,000 / mo

Most Powerful

TIER 1 — ENTERPRISE BACKEND

God Mode

₦10,000,000

one-time  +  ₦3,000,000 / mo

No self-serve. No freemium. All onboarding is concierge-managed for quality control and contractual accountability.  ·  Pricing in NGN.

Enterprise Security & Compliance

Built for Risk Officers. Verified by VAPT.

Every security claim below is an architectural fact — not a marketing assertion — independently verified through a full SAST and penetration test audit completed June 2026.

Independent SAST/VAPT Audit — June 2026

5 vulnerabilities identified and patched across LLM Security, Auth, Cryptography & API Abuse vectors

All Findings Remediated
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Architectural

Zero Key Custody

We physically lack the infrastructure to store your treasury keys. Our engine accepts no credentials, stores no credentials, and makes no outbound calls to your systems. A complete breach of Vulcan's infrastructure exposes zero client keys. Enforced in code, verified by audit.

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VAPT-Verified

Prompt Injection Guardrails

After every AI negotiation, a mandatory server-side validator recomputes the expected payout from your injected rate matrix. Any AI-quoted payout that deviates by more than ±2% is hard-blocked before the response is returned. An adversary cannot trick the AI into offering a higher rate — the math enforces reality.

CB
Regulatory

CBN Compliance — No PSSP/MMO License Needed

Because Vulcan never routes Naira, crypto, or holds execution credentials, integrating our AI does not trigger PSSP or MMO licensing obligations for Vulcan. Your compliance posture is not complicated by our presence on your tech stack.

30
SOC 2 Pathway

30-Day Chat Data TTL

All conversation sessions in Firestore are subject to a strict 30-day Time-To-Live automatic deletion policy. Server logs run through a five-pattern PII masking pipeline — redacting bank account numbers, EVM addresses, BTC addresses, and email addresses before reaching cloud dashboards.

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VAPT-Verified

Timing-Safe Authentication

All API key comparisons use Node.js crypto.timingSafeEqual() with fixed 128-byte padded buffers, eliminating timing-oracle side-channel attacks that would otherwise allow offline key recovery through response latency analysis.

VAPT-Verified

Idempotent Intent Emission

Firestore-backed distributed transaction locking guarantees exactly one trade intent per negotiated trade — regardless of concurrent retries, network instability, or concurrent API calls from multiple server pods. Float-drift in AI-quoted values is eliminated by integer-cent key construction.

AES-256-GCM Encryption

12-byte random IV, 16-byte auth tag, 32-byte key validation. Authenticated encryption prevents silent data tampering.

Cross-Tenant Isolation

vendorId sourced exclusively from authenticated session — never from the request body. Structural isolation confirmed by audit.

Bi-Annual VAPT Cadence

Mandatory re-audit scheduled following any new AI model rollout or prompt engineering change.

Get Started

Scale Your Enterprise. Keep Your Keys.

Stop losing bulk orders to slow manual replies. Stop risking your ERP with insecure chatbots. Our enterprise team manages every step of onboarding — from MSA signing to UAT and go-live. Most clients are live within days.

1
Sign MSA & remit setup fee
2
Concierge provisioning by our ops team
3
API handshake + UAT in staging
4
Go live — retainer billing begins

Contact Enterprise Sales

No demo forms. No automated funnels. You speak directly to the team that builds and operates Vulcan.

All onboarding is concierge-managed. No self-serve provisioning.