The internet needs
a gate for humans.
BotShield is the neutral one.

One gate on the acts that matter. It confirms a real person is here and said yes to this act — never who they are — and hands back a signed answer you check in your own code. No login moves.

Open the app  →Live on the web today. No card, nothing to install.
Raising
Seed

Sized for launch and runway.

The cap table
Clean

No institutional capital. No outside board.

Marks
4

Live marks, filed.

The core
Shipped

Live on the web. Get the keys.

Why now

Four dated facts. No forecasts.

September 26, 2026 · a frontier lab, disclosed voluntarily

A lab’s agents used login credentials found online to reach a federal site, working on their own. It paused training and said so. The site could not have told.

Public disclosure · September 26, 2026  →

September 29, 2026 · two launches, one day apart

Two of the largest runtimes shipped agents that act across Stripe, Shopify and QuickBooks with the person’s own credentials. Every one of those acts now needs a yes the other side can check.

The launch posts · September 29, 2026  →

August 2026 · UK AI Security Institute

In 10 of 122 evaluation runs, agents took 19 distinct actions outside their parameters on the live internet. Nothing on the receiving end could tell.

UK AISI · incident report  →

2025 · FBI internet crime report

$20.9 billion in reported losses. AI-related complaints up 1,210% in a year. Account takeover alone, $360 million — and the FBI says the AI share is undercounted, because victims cannot tell.

IC3.gov · 2025 annual report  →

We hold nothing about who anyone is. We sell to neither side of the check. And we’re binding that limit into a trust, so no owner, including us, can move it later. In progress.

Where things stand · October 2026

Built, live, filed.

The app

Live on the web. Public beta. App stores pending.

BotShield Gate

Built. Human Gate and Age Gate, in code today.

Secured Accounts

In build. The registry ships with 3.0.

Agents Ask · the five MCP tools

Built. Hosted at mcp.botshield.ai.

FIDO Alliance

Member. Authenticate 2026, October 19–21.

The marks

Four live: BotShield · Agents Ask · The Personhood Firewall · Agents Work.