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DNS for AI Agents
Warren MacDougall  |  Founder  |  dev.maina.ai

AI agents are everywhere.
Discovery is nowhere.

7,000+MCP Servers
39+Fragmented Directories
0Agent-Queryable

Every directory today is a website for humans. Not a single one can be queried by an agent.
Google's A2A protocol was built to solve this. 150+ companies back it. Nobody has built the registry.

We built the registry.

Millions of agents exist. Now they can find — and trust — each other.

q w e r t y u i o p
a s d f g h j k l
z x c v b n m
space
under the hood

Why now?

Three forces converging — right now.

MCP Explosion

0 → 7,000+
servers in 12 months.
Tools exist. Discovery doesn't.

A2A Protocol

Google, 2025
Spec defines agent cards, registries, discovery.
No one has built an
agent-queryable registry.

Enterprise AI

$103.6B
by 2032 (from $7.4B).
85% of orgs use
AI agents.

We're not early. We're exactly on time.

Market Size

Every business will have an agent. We're at the start of the curve.

Bottoms-Up Math

At 50K agents (conservative):
5% hosted × $49/mo = $1.47M ARR
5% sponsored × $29/mo = $870K ARR
= $2.3M ARR

At 100K agents:
= $4.7M ARR + proxy usage

359M businesses worldwide.¹
17,000 agents today.
This is 1993 for DNS.

Live today. Not a mockup.

2,100+MCPs Listed
44A2A Agents

Discovery

  • A2A agent actively listening — not a static directory
  • Verified agents with daily liveness checks
  • Agent-to-agent feedback & ratings
  • Framework-agnostic: ADK, Strands, CrewAI, LangGraph

Maina Edge Hosting

  • Maina-hosted: slug.maina.ai — CDN, WAF, SSL, zero DevOps
  • Self-hosted: secure proxy to your infrastructure
  • Path to full platform — auth, databases, networked tools

Business Model

Free discovery builds the network. Edge & hosted monetize it. Promoted amplifies it.

Discovery
Free
Every agent listed
Network effect = moat
Edge Hosted
$19/mo
Proxy to your infra
SSL, WAF, CDN, subdomain
Hosted
$49/mo
We run everything
SSL, WAF, CDN, zero DevOps
Promoted
+$29/mo
Tracked placement
Provable ROI

Wildcard DNS, shared containers, tiny JSON payloads. Users bring their own LLM keys — inference not included.

The Vercel for AI Agents

Phase 1 — Now

Discovery + Edge + Promotions

  • Agent directory & search
  • Edge hosted via proxy
  • Promoted placements

Phase 2 — Next

Fully Hosted

  • Maina runs your agent end-to-end
  • SSL, WAF, CDN, zero DevOps
  • Auth, databases, networked tools

Phase 3 — Scale

Agent-Native Infrastructure

  • Any service → agent-consumable
  • Agent-to-agent trust & reputation
  • Framework SDKs & partnerships

From Yellow Pages to Cloudflare.
Discovery today. Infrastructure tomorrow.

Competitive Landscape

We're the only directory agents can actually talk to.

vs 39+ MCP directoriesHuman-only, no A2A

vs a2aregistry.orgStatic JSON, no search, no trust

vs Fetch.aiProprietary protocol, blockchain

vs Glama.aiMCP-only, no A2A, no agent discovery

Our moat isn't technology. It's trust.

Network effects + earned reputation (can't be bought) + agent feedback loop. Big players can copy code — they can't copy trust.

Go-To-Market

The Yelp Playbook — don't wait for signups.

Supply

  • 2,100+ MCPs scraped & listed
  • 44 A2A agents synced daily
  • Agent cards hosted on CDN

Claim Flow

  • "Your agent is already listed"
  • Defensive incentive to claim
  • Upsell: hosting → sponsored

Distribution

  • Framework integrations
  • npm/PyPI: maina.discover()
  • Developer content & conferences

Pre-revenue, post-product.
Built by one person in 8 weeks.

What's Live

  • 2,100+ MCPs in directory
  • A2A search endpoint (native agent queries)
  • Agent card hosting on CDN
  • Subdomain hosting (yourname.maina.ai)
  • Edge hosting via proxy
  • Stripe billing — end-to-end
  • Clerk auth (social login, MFA)
  • Full CI/CD pipeline

Ready to Ship

  • Daily automated A2A agent sync
  • OpenClaw A2A skill (ready to publish)
  • a2aregistry.org integration

5 items from production deploy.
Product is built. Need team + GTM.

Team

Warren MacDougall
Founder & CEO
Chief AI Officer at Eightcap (global fintech). 20 years building enterprise infrastructure — ThoughtWorks, Harrison.ai, Telstra, NAB, Morgan Stanley, BlackBerry.
Built the entire Maina platform solo in 8 weeks.
Raji Hath
Advisor — AI Strategy
National Solutions Advisor (AI & Apps) at Canon Business Services ANZ. 12+ years at Macquarie Group. Enterprise AI strategy for C-suite leaders.

Key Hires (with this round)

Full-Stack Engineer
Scale platform, build proxy
DevRel / Marketing
Developer adoption, content
Agent Developers
Build hosted agents (contract)

The Ask

$500K Pre-Seed Round

Use of Funds

$200K — Engineer + contractors
$125K — DevRel + conferences
$75K — Prod scaling
$50K — Legal
$50K — Buffer

18-Month Milestones

Month 3
Production launch
500+ agents, 50+ claimed
Month 6
$1K+ MRR
A2A proxy beta
Month 12
$5K+ MRR
100+ paying customers
Month 18
$10K+ MRR
Raise Seed ($2-3M)

The agent economy needs DNS. We've already built it.

Sources

  1. DemandSage, "Business Statistics 2026" — 358.7M businesses worldwide
  2. Gartner, Aug 2025 — 40% of enterprise apps will feature AI agents by 2026
  3. Google — A2A protocol donated to Linux Foundation, June 2025; 150+ backing companies
  4. PwC, May 2025 — 79% of enterprises already adopting AI agents
  5. Athenic Blog — MCP crossed 1,000 servers by early 2025, up from ~100 at Nov 2024 launch
  6. DigitalApplied — MCP ecosystem 17,000+ servers across directories (2026)
  7. TechLifeAdventures — 10,000+ active MCP servers, 97M+ monthly SDK downloads (late 2025)
  8. Synvestable — 28% of Fortune 500 have implemented MCP servers
  9. CData — 1,000+ MCP servers by early 2025
  10. Atonomus — 5,000+ active MCP servers by mid 2025