Introducing AG9 by VeryAI: A New Standard for AI Agent Identity

VeryAI , the company creating the identity layer for AI safety, today announced the launch of AG9, a platform designed to solve one of the most pressing infrastructure challenges of the AI era: how to identify, authenticate, and trust AI agents operating autonomously across the web. As AI agents increasingly browse, transact, and interact on behalf of humans, the identity verification frameworks built for human users are breaking down. Existing tools like CAPTCHA and cloudflare were designed with humans in mind and are failing to distinguish legitimate agents from malicious bots. Today, a single actor can deploy thousands of autonomous agents with no guardrails or a way for platforms to verify who or what is behind them. Financial institutions have long relied on Know Your Customer (KYC) standards to verify who they’re doing business with, but no equivalent exists for AI agents. The consequences are real. Credentials leak, cookies get shared, and downstream systems can’t tell a legitimate agent from a bad bot, so they block both or let both through. The root cause is the same: there is no standard that confirms a given agent is authorized by and traceable back to a real, consenting human before it is permitted to act on their behalf. It’s time for a Know Your Agent (KYA) standard that gives agents identity, credentials, and permissions so they can operate and be trusted. What is AG9? AG9 introduces a KYA standard rooted in palm biometric verification that proves a real person owns and authorizes that agent. Under AG9, a human scans their palm through VeryAI, and their agent is now cryptographically bound to a real, verified person. This combats anonymous agent deployment and Sybil attacks at the root, creating an unbreakable chain of accountability from agent action back to the human owner, even as the agent moves across vendors, services and enterprises. Any platform can then query in real time whether an agent is owned by a verified human, with a response subsecond. “KYC answers the question ’who is this user?’ That’s no longer enough. A single person can now deploy thousands of agents acting, transacting, and interacting autonomously with zero accountability. The question that platforms need to answer is, ‘Who or what is acting right now, and where does the responsibility lie?’ KYC wasn’t built to answer that. AG9 is,” said Zach Meltzer, Founder & CEO of VeryAI. A Platform for Agent Trust

How It Works: There are three easy steps to using AG9:

Who It’s For? AG9 is designed for any organization that needs to know exactly who and what is operating on their platform. Today, millions of websites rely on tools like CAPTCHA and bot detection to distinguish humans from automated traffic. Automated activity already represents the majority of the internet: in 2024, 51% of internet traffic came from bots, with malicious bots accounting for 37%, according to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report . At the same time, 44% of advanced bot attacks now target APIs. As agents interact directly with platforms and APIs, organizations need a way to verify which agents are authorized and accountable. AG9 supports:

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