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Anti-bot security, measured in money
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What does it cost to attack your defence?

Intruso answers with a price in dollars, not with a block rate. If attacking comes cheap, someone is already doing it — and the percentage will not tell you.

What do you need Intruso for today?

measured exists today, with numbers you can check service work done with you running, no customer yet built and running, still nobody in production

Intruso runs exclusively against mechanisms that are yours, or recreated in a lab from your description. Never against third-party services: this is an audit, not an attack.

One number, without a single formula

On an ordinary text CAPTCHA, attacking returns 769 times what it costs

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Each attempt to beat it costs the attacker $0.000026. Each time one gets through, it is worth $0.02. The arithmetic is that division, and anyone can redo it.

Blocking 99.4% of attempts makes the attack 167 times dearer — and it still pays off 4.6 times over. That is why the block rate, on its own, does not tell you whether you are protected.

See how this number was measured

Proposal

The question “is this a human?” has lost its answer

An AI agent buying on behalf of one of your customers is automated traffic and revenue. Blocking it costs you money. Letting it in with no rule at all costs you again.

The question that still has an answer is a different one: who answers for this, and how much do they pay? A signed mandate — who they are, what they may do, at what rate, until when, and at what tariff. Not blocking agents: charging them.

The question “is this a human?” has lost its answer.
The question “who answers for this, and how much do they pay?” has one.

And there is a measured reason why this is not a fashion. Every defence built on a puzzle has an expiry date, because the compute that attacks it gets cheaper every year. Forging accountable identity does not ride Moore's law. The Horizon dates that expiry — and shows that the passport is the only defence outside the clock.

This has stopped being a sketch. The protocol is implemented and runs entirely in your browser: the key is born there, the mandate is signed with real Ed25519 and the verifier walks all nine points. The same logic exists in Python, in the engine, and the two are compared case by case by a harness anyone can run.

What is still missing is not code: it is the first production site serving requests with this. That is why the card says no customer yet and not product — and it will go on saying so until there is one.

Issue a passport now I want to be the first to put it into service

Where to start

The cheapest way to start is without talking to us

The ceiling instrument runs entirely in your browser and makes not a single network request. If the result bothers you, then we talk.

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