The Emotional Protocol for Agentic Commerce

Give your website a soul that machines can feel.

AI agents are buying for humans. But they can't feel trust. They can't sense quality. They can't perceive craft. ANIMA bridges the empathy gap between human emotion and machine intelligence.

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Compatible with the protocols that matter

ACP MCP UCP Schema.org Stripe Shopify
The Invisible Crisis

AI agents will control $1.7 trillion in purchases by 2030. Your website is invisible to them.

01

Agents can't feel trust

When a human lands on your site, they feel your brand in 50ms. An AI agent sees raw HTML. No emotion. No trust signal. No reason to choose you over a competitor with better-structured data.

02

95% of decisions are subconscious

Neuroscience proves humans decide emotionally before rationalizing. AI agents making purchases for humans need to encode that same emotional reasoning — or they'll always choose the cheapest option.

03

The empathy gap kills conversion

Research shows perceived empathy (beta = 0.32) and trust (beta = 0.27) mediate every interaction. If your website can't transmit these to an agent, you lose the sale you never knew existed.

What if your website could
speak to machines
the way it speaks to souls?

ANIMA is not another analytics tool. It's an emotional metadata layer — the bridge between what humans feel and what agents compute. One script. One protocol. One soul.

The Protocol

Three layers. One soul.

ANIMA works at every level of the stack — from the semantic layer agents read, to the emotional signals they interpret, to the actions they execute.

LAYER 01

Semantic

What agents read
  • agent-manifest.json — your complete product ontology
  • .well-known/agent-commerce endpoint
  • Schema.org enriched markup
  • Machine-readable trust certificates
Result

AI agents discover your products, understand your catalog, and can navigate your offerings without rendering a single pixel.

LAYER 02

Emotional

What agents feel
  • Brand emotion vectors (trust, warmth, authority)
  • Quality perception scores
  • Human-craft certification signals
  • Aesthetic coherence metadata
Result

When an agent decides between two equivalent products, it chooses the one with higher emotional coherence. Your brand feeling becomes computable.

LAYER 03

Kinetic

What agents do
  • Agentic checkout protocol
  • Delegated payment flow (Stripe/ACP)
  • Cart, configure, and purchase actions
  • Post-purchase confirmation & tracking
Result

The agent doesn't just find you — it completes the purchase. No human clicks needed. Frictionless autonomous commerce.

Integration

One line. Infinite reach.

Install ANIMA in under 60 seconds. The protocol does the rest.

index.html
<!-- Drop this before </head> -->
<script
  src="https://anima.cd/v1.js"
  data-key="your-key"
></script>

<!-- That's it. -->
<!-- ANIMA auto-generates: -->
<!-- • agent-manifest.json -->
<!-- • .well-known/agent-commerce -->
<!-- • emotional metadata layer -->
<!-- • Schema.org enrichment -->
agent-manifest.json
{
  "protocol": "anima/v1",
  "entity": {
    "name": "Your Brand",
    "soul": {
      "trust": 0.94,
      "warmth": 0.87,
      "craft": 0.91,
      "human_made": true
    },
    "actions": [
      "discover", "compare",
      "purchase", "subscribe"
    ]
  }
}
Built on Neuroscience

Not opinions. Neural evidence.

Every signal in the ANIMA protocol is grounded in peer-reviewed research on how human brains build trust — and how machines can learn to replicate it.

95%

Decisions are subconscious

The brain decides emotionally before conscious reasoning activates. ANIMA encodes these pre-rational trust signals into machine-readable vectors.

Harvard Business School, 2025
50ms

First impression window

Humans form website trust judgments in 50 milliseconds. ANIMA delivers equivalent trust metadata to agents in under 1ms.

Lindgaard et al. — Behaviour & IT
0.32

Empathy mediates everything

Perceived empathy (beta = 0.32) is the strongest mediator of user experience — stronger than visual design or feature completeness.

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2025
$1.7T

Agent commerce by 2030

From $135B today to $1.7 trillion. The websites that agents can read, trust, and purchase from will capture this market. The rest will disappear.

McKinsey & Gartner, 2026
Access

Choose your frequency.

From indie makers to enterprise brands — ANIMA scales with your ambition.

Signal
Free
forever
  • agent-manifest.json generator
  • .well-known endpoint
  • Basic Schema.org enrichment
  • Community support
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Pulse
€29
per month
  • Everything in Signal
  • Emotional metadata layer
  • Agent analytics dashboard
  • Craft certification badge
  • Email support
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Infinite
€499
per month
  • Everything in Soul
  • Custom AI persona for your brand
  • White-label protocol
  • Dedicated account manager
  • SLA guarantee
  • On-call integration support
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"In the brave new world, the machines that purchase for us will choose the brands that feel like home. Give them something to feel."
— The ANIMA Manifesto
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