AigencyID Launches: A New Standard for Ethical Governance of Human Likeness in the AI Era

Vancouver, December 9th, 2025 - Today marks the official launch of AigencyID, a groundbreaking platform designed to protect artists, performers, and public figures as AI-generated likeness becomes an unavoidable force across entertainment and digital media.

AigencyID was founded by Monika Dalman (Casting Director, Executive Producer) and Alicia Read (Executive Producer, Actor) after extensive consultation with legal professionals and industry experts. Both founders had grown increasingly concerned by the rapid acceleration of AI technologies and the absence of any central, reliable, ethical mechanism to safeguard the rights, agency, and economic participation of real people whose likenesses are at risk of being replicated without consent.

“We all recognize that AI’s growth cannot be slowed or reversed,” says Dalman, Co-Founder. “But what can, and must, be built is a governance layer that protects the individuals whose identities fuel these systems. AigencyID is the first platform to provide that protection at scale.”

AigencyID establishes an enterprise-grade framework for human identity governance:

• A Verified Digital Likeness Registry ensuring artists and public personas can authenticate and own their digital likeness rights.

• Consent-Based Licensing Infrastructure giving creators and studios a transparent, auditable path to request and license likeness usage.

• Usage Tracking & Compensation Intelligence offering full oversight of where, when, and how a likeness appears, and automatic pathways for royalties and approvals.

Dalman and Read launched AigencyID not from a technological vantage point, but from decades spent advocating for clients - individuals as businesses, and the people behind businesses - and from a deep understanding that without protective structures, AI will evolve faster than the rights meant to safeguard the people behind the images.

“In our work with actors, performers, and public figures, we saw firsthand the anxiety rising around AI,” said Alicia Read and Monika Dalman in a joint statement. “We acknowledge that the advancement of AI is inevitable. What isn’t inevitable is a future where artists have no agency. By consulting legal experts and industry leaders, we recognized an opportunity, and a responsibility, to build a platform that protects not just individual careers, but the creative ecosystem at large.”

AigencyID is now accepting early-access waitlist registrations ahead of its 2026 full platform release.

For press inquiries, contact:
Kelli D. McLeod, Chief Communications and Growth Officer
typeehmedia@gmail.com

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