Bot, AI Agent, and Fraud Defense Across Enterprise User Journeys

Arkose Labs builds fraud prevention and agentic AI security technology for enterprises whose sign-up, sign-in, and in-platform flows are targeted by automated abuse. Founded and led by Kevin Gosschalk, the company serves Fortune 500 brands and fintechs across banking, gaming, travel, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Its stated mission is making trust the default state of the internet, giving businesses real-time visibility into whether a given visitor is a genuine person, a legitimate AI agent, or an adversary, without penalizing real customers.

The company's premise is that legacy bot detection was built to answer a single question — is this a bot? — a framing it argues no longer holds as AI agents increasingly transact on users' behalf. Its Agent Trust Manager, part of the unified Arkose Titan platform, classifies agentic traffic into three populations: self-disclosing agents, non-disclosing but legitimate agents, and malicious agents — so verified automation can complete its task while adversarial and disguised agents are stopped.

Titan consolidates Bot Manager, Agent Trust Manager, Device ID, Email Intelligence, Phishing Protection, and an Edge and Scraping Protection layer on shared session infrastructure. Traffic is scored against more than 200 risk signals plus threat data drawn from the Arkose Global Intelligence Network, then routed to graduated enforcement rather than a binary block, using adaptive interactive challenges that escalate as an attacker persists. Integration is a single API call.

What distinguishes the approach is its economic framing: challenges are designed to drain attacker ROI by making sustained automated attacks computationally and financially unprofitable, with a 24/7 security operations team tuning defenses in real time as attack patterns shift. Recognition includes five consecutive years on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500.