In the last few months, hundreds of thousands of people set up personal AI agents that send email on their behalf, manage calendars, book travel, even sign contracts - all thanks to openclaw. Most of these agents have no real identity online. They borrow a human's. The identity stack of the internet, OAuth, 2FA, KYC, magic links, was built for people sitting at a keyboard. Agents don't fit, and we've ended up with shared accounts, hard-coded credentials, and humans dragged back into every loop. I'm Adi, co-founder of AgentMail. We are building the identity layer for what we believe will be the next trillion users of the internet, and they will not be human. Across hundreds of customers, we have watched what breaks when an agent has no real address. It fails at signups. Verification codes get lost. There is no accountability when something goes wrong. The human gets pulled back in. This talk is the case for making agents first-class citizens of the internet. I'll cover the identity architecture we've shipped, the legacy industries already adopting it and making real money, and where agent identity infrastructure is going over the next decade.
Sandbox & Platform Engineering sessions at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM·20m
Track 1 · Room 2010
Capacity: 250 attendees
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Adi Singh
Co-founder
AgentMail
@adisingh
Adi Singh is co-founder of AgentMail (YC S25), the first email provider for AI agents. The company is backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, with investments from Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah (CTO, HubSpot), Paul Copplestone (CEO, Supabase) and Karim Atiyeh (CTO, Ramp). Prior to founding AgentMail, Adi held investing roles at Accel, StepStone Group, and Flex Capital, and operated across accounting, edtech, and e-commerce. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he met his co-founders and began building AgentMail.