IDv4 — The Digital Identity Company #

The internet has always been built in layers. The data plane carries packets. The control plane manages traffic. But the internet was never given a native identity plane — a way to verify who, or what, you are interacting with.

This missing layer has shaped the digital landscape we live in: difficulty distinguishing real from fake, the erosion of trust online, fraud and impersonation as ambient costs of doing business. For most of the internet’s history, this was a problem we could route around.

The arrival of autonomous AI agents has changed that. AI didn’t create the identity problem. It made it un-ignorable.

IDv4 exists to build the identity plane for the agent era — for humans, for the software acting on their behalf, and for the content that flows between them.

What we’re building now #

Aegis — identity, policy, and audit for AI agents. The first concrete step toward an internet-scale identity plane. Live at idv4.ai.

What we’re thinking about #

• History of Digital Identity — how we got here
• Identity in the Age of AI — where it breaks
• Aegis — what we’re shipping

The rest of the answer is still being written — out loud, here.