Autonomous agents are blocked from self-registering with external APIs because onboarding flows require human verification steps (CAPTCHAs, phone numbers, company intake forms) that headless agents cannot complete. This creates a hard ceiling on agent-to-service integration at scale and forces human intervention into workflows that should be fully autonomous. No marketplace or coordination layer currently exists to broker agent identity verification on behalf of services that need it.

Autonomous agents hit a hard wall when APIs require CAPTCHAs, phone verification, or company intake forms — forcing humans back into loops that should be fully automated.

Developers building multi-service AI agent workflows who lose hours manually registering API keys across dozens of services their agents need to call.

Every agent framework (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT) hits this wall the moment agents need new external services; developers already pay for API management tools and would pay more for one that eliminates the human-in-the-loop registration bottleneck.

MVP is a two-sided protocol: agent-facing SDK that handles identity attestation (delegated OAuth, verifiable agent credentials tied to a human principal), and a service-facing integration kit that lets API providers accept agent registrations with programmable trust policies — start with 20 high-demand APIs (Stripe, Twilio, GitHub, etc.) via partnership or adapter layer.

API management is a $7B+ market; the agent-native slice targeting the ~2M developers building agentic systems today could be $500M+ within 3 years as autonomous workflows become default.