Web Bot Auth: Cryptographically Signed AI Agents
Web Bot Auth lets AI agents cryptographically sign HTTP requests, so you verify a crawler instead of trusting its user-agent string. Today it needs a CDN.
Web Bot Auth lets AI agents cryptographically sign HTTP requests, so you verify a crawler instead of trusting its user-agent string. Today it needs a CDN.
The Agentic Commerce Protocol is an OpenAI and Stripe standard for exposing catalogue data to AI agents. For B2B SaaS, agent-completable forms matter more.
Australia’s Telemarketing and Research Calls Industry Standard 2017 is recorded for repeal on 1 April 2027. What AI calling teams should prepare for now.
Most AI answers cite nobody. Similarweb data shows citations in roughly 1.6% of US ChatGPT prompts in June 2025, rising to about 6.8% by May 2026. What changed.
A user-agent string is a claim, not proof. Verify AI crawlers two ways: forward-confirmed reverse DNS, and the IP-range files vendors publish themselves.
No major AI engine documents how language shapes which pages it cites. Research shows models prefer sources in the prompt’s language, falling back to English.
Goodie’s panel study puts ChatGPT at 62.6% of measurable B2B AI referrals, down from 89.1%, as Claude, Gemini and Perplexity grow. Optimise for every engine.
Cloudflare’s pay-per-crawl charges AI crawlers per request via HTTP 402. For a SaaS brand that wins pipeline through AI citations, charging is self-defeating.
Google’s generative AI performance report shows how often your pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode. Impressions only: no clicks, no queries, no API access.
In G2’s March 2026 survey of 1,076 B2B decision makers, 33% bought from a vendor they had never heard of before. Here is how unknown vendors get discovered.