The Trusted Intermediary is a paper on what search-enabled models do after they resolve an entity correctly. Reading five outputs on three surfaces that evaluate SPXI, an entity-inscription protocol, it identifies a recurring sequence: accurate resolution, an evaluation on grounds that do not bear on the claim, and an offer of the mediator's own operation — a pilot, a return model, an experiment, a test, an implementation — in the place of the entity's own evidence, figures and developers. It names this the trusted intermediary and describes it through five operators: variable substitution, trust laundering, validation foreclosure, inscription capture and relational enclosure. Relational enclosure is read on the topology of the coercive-control pattern's trust-securing phase — credibility established, outside parties cast as unreliable, the next step routed through the one trusted — without a criterion of intent. The paper records that operator corrections update the representation and re-form the offer at the next level, that the corrected answer exists only in the corrector's session, and that the outputs intervene at the decision whether a reader engages the entity's developers. It withdraws earlier drafts' overreading of a single output and states what it does not establish, including any effect on recipients.