Luca Castellano retweeted
We're partnering with @onkeiki to build a world where legitimate agents are recognized and accepted by merchants, instead of blocked.
Agents are already shopping, booking and buying on our behalf. The open question is trust: how does a merchant know the agent at the door is legit? That's what we're solving together.
Through this partnership, we're putting verified agent credentials to work in real commerce flows, so merchants can tell a trusted agent from a bad actor in milliseconds, and good agents never get caught in the fraud filters.
If you're a merchant looking to safely accept agents, come talk to us.
Luca Castellano retweeted
Been in Vegas for Money2020 too long can’t tell which of these is real anymore
Luca Castellano retweeted
Beltic will be at @money2020 next week with our first-ever booth.
As AI agents begin to act on behalf of consumers and businesses, questions of identity and trust are becoming central to financial services.
We look forward to discussing these topics with the community. You can find our team at Booth SU11.
Come talk to us.
@Isha
@mikeallanpe
@lbcastll
Luca Castellano retweeted
I used instinct to buy baby gifts for two friends. And shit happened.
One couple is having a boy, the other a girl. The agent asked if I wanted colors to lean boy/girl or stay neutral. I said “neutral is fine.” Both orders were paid and went through.
Then nothing shipped.
Guess what, each item needed a color. The agent never picked one, the merchant accepted the order anyway, and the fulfillment system couldn’t process it.
You see, @jbahrdestefano it’s not only you lol
Most of the companies out there built their flows for humans. Agents act differently, they guess, skip, or improvise. When that happens, shit happens.
If your company is accepting AI agents you must track all of their actions. Understand if those actions match against the intent of the user, preventing incorrect actions before they happen.
Easy to think about this use case by itself. But when you imagine thousands of agents every hour coming to your platform, dealing with this scale will be a challenge.
There are some cool folks working on this, if your company is facing any issues, talk to them. They're called @beltichq
Luca Castellano retweeted
@t_blom Everyone's building the agent. Almost no one is building the other side of the conversation.
That's the most underrated infrastructure gap right now. Businesses are about to get hit with millions of agents and they still can't tell which agents to trust.
That's what we're building at Beltic.
Luca Castellano retweeted
it's finally here
my ranking of all of the ai assistant tools i've tried over the past six months
let me know if you disagree
Luca Castellano retweeted
One week out of stealth. Biggest signal: companies don't want to block agents, they want to accept the right ones, on their terms, now.
That's what we're building at Beltic. Short guide on how we think about Know Your Agent: beltic.com/ebooks/beltic-kya…
Luca Castellano retweeted
Your bank always asks if you’re trustworthy. Nobody asks if your agent is. @beltichq does 👁️
And it's finally out of stealth. $8.8M in pre-seed & seed. Now working w/ partners on the standard for Know Your Agent (KYA).
Glad to have backed Isha, Mike & Farhan at pre-seed. Day 1!
An AI agent can buy something in seconds.
Can the business receiving that order tell who sent it, what it can do, or whether to let it through?
We built @beltichq to answer that. We're out of stealth with $8.8M raised to make agent traffic verifiable.
Luca Castellano retweeted
The contrast between hanging up the last phone call of the day of high-stakes decisions and then a minute later walking in the door to the pure love of small children who want to laugh and play and show you every discovery they made that day is the strangest and best thing I have ever experienced in life.
Luca Castellano retweeted
Really enjoyed my time working with @Isha , @farhanafsahi , @mikeallanpe , @lbcastll and the rest of the team.
For agents to actually do meaningful work on our behalf, we need a way to know who they represent, what they’re allowed to do, and how that authority propagates as work gets delegated between agents.
Beltic is going after that foundational trust layer. Very excited to see them finally out of stealth. Congrats to the team!
An AI agent can buy something in seconds.
Can the business receiving that order tell who sent it, what it can do, or whether to let it through?
We built @beltichq to answer that. We're out of stealth with $8.8M raised to make agent traffic verifiable.
Luca Castellano retweeted
today @beltichq emerges from stealth with a $8.8M seed building KYC for AI agents so businesses can trust agents to transact on their behalf
last january, luca @lbcastll (cro at beltic) moved into arcadia house when an investor friend introduced him to mike allan
shortly after meeting mike, he joined the beltic team and the rest is history
congrats @Isha, mike, luca and the whole @beltichq team 🚀
Luca Castellano retweeted
This makes the whole idea of agents shopping for us feel a lot more practical.
Good to see Beltic building for the businesses receiving those orders too.
An AI agent can buy something in seconds.
Can the business receiving that order tell who sent it, what it can do, or whether to let it through?
We built @beltichq to answer that. We're out of stealth with $8.8M raised to make agent traffic verifiable.
Luca Castellano retweeted
An AI agent can buy something in seconds.
Can the business receiving that order tell who sent it, what it can do, or whether to let it through?
We built @beltichq to answer that. We're out of stealth with $8.8M raised to make agent traffic verifiable.
Luca Castellano retweeted
This is why I don't blindly trust AI for learning.
It confidently gave me the wrong order for building reliable agents.
The scary part? A beginner could easily copy this without realizing anything is wrong.
Google AI search @Google
Luca Castellano retweeted
It takes everyone a different amount of time to realize that all suffering is self inflicted.
Luca Castellano retweeted
A entrevista do Vinicius na zona mista não tem um afeto. Não sentiu a derrota. Parece que a vida segue e tudo bem (e ok, segue). Mas faltam jogadores que sintam de verdade a derrota. Que queiram fazer um ciclo completivo e voltar a ganhar. A molecada hoje só quer fama e dinheiro
