Known Agents

Our founder Gavin King sat down with Joe Marchese of Human Ventures and Yik Yak CEO (and Known Agents customer) Kyle Venn to talk about how bots are changing the internet, media, and advertising. Check out the conversation from iConnections Global Alts Miami: https://lnkd.in/g3wCqtRS

Thank you Leah Becerra and team for including Known Agents in Reynolds Journalism Institute's News Media Help Desk Tools Scorecard. If you’re a local news organization, please DM us for a demo so we can help you navigate the new world of AI bot traffic. https://lnkd.in/gDXkZt6a

Great to see Stripe recommending Known Agents as a go-to resource for understanding which AI agents are accessing your website: https://lnkd.in/gu5gduiz (Known Agents was still called Dark Visitors when this video was recorded.)

Known Agents is on Product Hunt today! Please support us there: https://lnkd.in/eMU-n-Cp Here's what we said: Half of your website's traffic isn't human anymore. It's bots and AI agents. Bots aren't new, but AI just made their activity a lot more meaningful. AI agents are now doing things like: • 🛍️ Buying your products and booking reservations • 💻 Reading your docs to implement your tools and code • 📖 Scraping your content to train models • 🔬 Researching your business for competitors The problem is that they're completely hidden from you right now. You're blind to half of your visitors if you're only using a human analytics platform, and you can't optimize what you can't see. Known Agents is "Google Analytics for bots". It lets you see exactly what they're doing on your pages, and how they're referring real humans from AI chat and search platforms. This is a new type of user that's only going to get more important. It's free for the vast majority of websites, and takes 5 minutes to set up. Let me know what you see in your realtime feed. Which bots are visiting, and what surprised you? Feedback is appreciated!

Join the News/Media Alliance for the next presentation in our educational webinar series showcasing various companies that make up the artificial intelligence (“AI”) vendor landscape. Our next webinar, "AI Agent & Bot Analytics with Known Agents" is Thursday, April 30 at 12 PM EDT. Hear from Founder Gavin King to learn how Known Agents empowers publishers with deeper visibility into AI-driven traffic, enabling you to identify, track, control, and understand how bots and AI agents interact with your content. Register now! *Member login required https://lnkd.in/epH3iZrs

🎧 Next Friday April 10, our special guest on #AIPublisherResponse Live is none other than Gavin King (Known Agents). As Gavin will explain, we need to face up to the fact that more bots than real people might be visiting our sites. Together, Rob and Gavin will dig into what these bots are doing, what they are looking for, and what you should do next. Sign up today to be part of the conversation👇  #AIPublisherResponseLive: What the Bots are Telling You https://lnkd.in/dTyj2TtX #bots #publisher #revenue #AIpublisherresponse #complexityovercommunity Beeler.Tech

How should you navigate the shift to an internet where AI agents outnumber humans? This isn't theoretical. Bots already make up half of your traffic, and they're impacting your business in ways you might not realize. Join us on April 10 to find out ⬇️

Want to know when Cloudflare's new crawler visits your website? Agent Analytics has you covered: https://lnkd.in/eGq8hbTu

We worked with WIRED to dig into an ongoing wave of mysterious bot traffic. More here:

Dark Visitors is now Known Agents - An evolved name for a new era of the internet. Dark Visitors started as a side project: a single web page listing the user agents of the eight AI bots that existed at the time. The goal was to give website owners visibility into the oncoming wave of unseen artificial traffic that was headed their way. Today, we serve thousands of websites and maintain the largest and most accurate list of agents on the internet, considered a gold standard knowledge base across the industry. But with AI bots now in the spotlight, people stopped hearing "dark" as "hidden" the way we intended (like "dark matter"). Instead, they heard "bad." We're not an anti-bot company. We believe the internet is entering a new era where bots use the web as much as humans do, and transparency will replace the endless detection arms race. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Browserbase are already adopting identification protocols and structured agentic workflows. We're helping businesses navigate this reality in a way that creates value for everyone. Same mission, same features. A name that finally fits where we're headed. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/ex5pAkZt