Skyfire assigns each AI agent a digital wallet with a unique identifier, where businesses can deposit a set amount of funds they want the agent to spend, so they don’t get unlimited access to a bank account. Skyfire also allows customers to set limits in how much an AI agent can spend in one transaction and over time. If an AI agent tries to overspend, it will ping a human to review it. Skyfire also offers a dashboard to view exactly how much, and where, their agent is spending.
Skyfire’s co-founder and CEO Amir Sarhangi sold his last startup, Jibe, to Google, and the RCS messaging protocol Jibe helped pioneer became the standard for Android’s billion users. Now, he’s trying to develop an open protocol to power payments in the AI era.