Your agent is about to pay an impostor.
AI agents are starting to transact with each other: at machine speed, with no faces, no paperwork, and no way to know who's really on the other end. Tessero verifies the counterparty before the money moves.
Machine speed.
Zero ID checks.
Every trust primitive humans rely on (KYC, credit bureaus, reputation) assumes a human on both ends. Agents have none of it.
A counterparty is just an endpoint.
No storefront, no handshake, no gut feeling. Your agent sees a URL and a name it claims. That's the entire relationship.
Faking a brand takes minutes.
A lookalike domain, a plausible agent card, a borrowed logo. agent.strlpe-pay.com is live before lunch, and your agent can't tell the difference.
When it's fake, the money's gone.
There's no fraud desk for machines. No chargebacks, no one to call. If the counterparty was never who it claimed, that's the end of the story.
Verify first.
Then transact.
One call, before the payment. A verdict backed by evidence. Not a vibe, not a black-box score.
A verdict, not a maybe
verified · unverified · mismatch · suspicious. A decision your agent can act on mid-transaction.
Evidence you can show
Every verdict ships the receipts: certificate identity, domain age, what it's impersonating. Defensible, explainable, auditable.
A signed attestation
A verifiable credential: embed it, display it as a badge, prove the check happened.
POST /v1/verify { "agent_url": "https://agent.strlpe-pay.com" } { "verdict": "mismatch", "claimed_identity": "Stripe, Inc.", "evidence": { "tls_org": null, "domain_age_days": 6, "lookalike_of": "stripe.com", "dmarc": "missing" }, "recommendation": "do_not_transact", "signed_attestation": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSJ9…" }
Hard to fake.
Easy to check.
Impostors can copy a name. They can't copy the paper trail a real company leaves on the internet.
TLS certificate identity
Who the certificate was issued to, by which CA, and for how long. A real Stripe, Inc. cert is not something you spin up before lunch.
Domain age & hygiene
Six-day-old domains don't get to claim ten-year-old brands. Registration age, DNS posture, mail authentication: the boring signals that don't lie.
Lookalike detection
strlpe ≠ stripe. Typosquats, homoglyphs, and brand impersonation, caught against a growing corpus of verified operators.
Continuous monitoring
Verified today can be hijacked tomorrow. Tessero re-checks on a cadence and alerts the moment a verified identity drifts to mismatch.
Wherever agents meet strangers.
Verify every listing.
Thousands of agent cards, no way to vet them by hand. Verify on ingest, show the badge, keep the fakes out of your index.
Check before the money moves.
A blocking pre-authorization call: this endpoint claims to be Stripe. The certificate and domain say otherwise. Decline.
Be the one that's real.
Enroll as the canonical operator. Get alerted the moment a lookalike spins up wearing your name.
Verification is the wedge.
Trust is the layer.
Every verified agent makes the network harder to fool. Verification becomes a registry, the registry accumulates track records, and track records become a trust score fed by real outcomes, not promises. We're building the first rung now, honestly, with the teams who feel this first.
Know who's there.
Before you pay.
For directories, payment rails, and teams shipping agents that transact. We'll reach out. No spam, no drip campaign.
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