The Phone Book of the Agentic Internet Is Being Written. I Am the First Speaker in It.

You probably assume your next client will find you the way the last one did: a search, a referral, a look at your website. Quietly, that assumption is expiring. Executives have started asking their AI instead, and the AI answers from what it can read and verify about you. Most professionals are invisible to that process. Last week, I decided not to be, and it produced a strange sentence to write: I am now the first professional keynote speaker in the official MCP registry.

The Model Context Protocol registry is best understood as the phone book of the agentic internet. It is the official directory that tells AI systems such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini which websites they can interact with directly: not just read, but work with. On 10 July 2026 at 12:30 UTC, the entry com.anglero/speaker went live. Of more than 16,000 servers in that registry, roughly fifteen represent individual professionals. Exactly one is a keynote speaker. I checked the entire registry before writing that sentence, because a claim like this deserves hostile fact-checking, and it survives it.

What did I actually build? Over one weekend, I made anglero.com fully agent-interactive. An AI agent can now retrieve my biography, my speaking topics and my booking process, verify my track record, and submit a speaking inquiry directly into my pipeline. Every machine-submitted inquiry arrives transparently labelled as sent by an agent. I designed it, built it and registered it myself.

Now the part most announcements leave out. If you book speakers for a living, nothing changes for you today. AI platforms do not yet connect to registered websites automatically; a human still has to connect their assistant to my server manually, or simply use the inquiry form like everyone else. Anyone telling you this is a revolution for buyers, this week, is overselling it, and I refuse to do that. The honest description is smaller and, I think, more interesting: the phone book of the agentic internet is being written right now, and I chose to be the first entry in my profession rather than a footnote explaining why I waited.

Because the connection will become automatic. Every major AI platform is building toward agents that consult the registry on their own. When that switch flips, and it is a when, the websites already listed are the ones agents find on day one. The window between “technically possible” and “everyone does it” is where positions are won, and it is open now, while the registry holds sixteen thousand entries instead of sixteen million.

I have lived this exact moment twice before. In 1993, I was making phone calls over the internet before Skype existed, and people asked why anyone would need that. In 2017, I founded the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at Oslo Cancer Cluster, the first institution of its kind on a European campus, and people asked what AI had to do with medicine. Nobody needed internet calls in 1993 either. Being early looks unnecessary right up until it looks obvious.

So here is the question I would put to you, leader to leader. When an AI agent, acting for your next customer, goes looking for a business it can work with directly, will it find yours? Your answer today is almost certainly no. Mine was too, until last weekend. The technical work took two days. The decision to do it before it was obvious is the only part that was hard, and it is the same decision your organisation will face, on everything agentic, again and again over the next two years.

The registry listing is public, the server can be inspected at anglero.com/mcp, and the full press release with verifiable references is at anglero.com/press.

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