AI shopping agents have no standard way to verify merchants — so we built one (MCP + verification API) AI agents are beginning to make purchasing and recommendation decisions on behalf of users. But there's a quiet infrastructure problem nobody's solved yet. The gap Most ecommerce trust systems were built for humans. Branding, visual design, reviews, SEO, reputation signals — all of it assumes a person is evaluating the store and making a judgment call. Agents don't do that. When an AI agent is tasked with finding and buying something, it's parsing structured data, operational signals, machine-readable policy indicators. It's not "feeling" trust. It's looking for signals it can interpret deterministically. Here's the problem: there's currently no standard verification layer for this.…