BLUE BELL, PA — REGO Payment Architectures Inc. (OTCQB: RPMT) is expanding its digital identity and parental consent platform to help technology companies verify authorization for minors without collecting their personal information, while developing artificial intelligence tools intended to block potentially harmful interactions before they reach children.
The Blue Bell-based company said its REGO Guardian Global Solution now includes an application programming interface, or API, that allows participating digital platforms to obtain verified parental consent and age-assurance information through a single integration.
The expansion builds on REGO’s October 15 global software-as-a-service licensing initiative and targets digital platforms that need to distinguish between adult and minor users while enforcing parental restrictions.
Under the system, a parent verifies their relationship with a child once. When the child attempts to access a participating service, the parent can approve, restrict or deny access.
The platform then receives a digitally signed response containing the child’s age range, authorized permissions, a platform-specific pseudonym and an expiration date.
REGO said the process does not disclose the child’s name, date of birth, photograph or other identifying information to the participating platform.
The architecture is designed to allow companies to verify parental authorization without maintaining the underlying personal information used to establish that relationship.
Beyond consent verification, REGO is developing AI-based classification technology intended to identify potentially dangerous communications involving minors.
The proposed capabilities would analyze interactions for signs of sexual grooming, exploitation, coercion, financial fraud, sextortion and attempts to obtain sensitive information.
The company also plans safeguards addressing harmful AI-generated conversations, including interactions involving encouragement of self-harm, manipulation and inappropriate emotional dependency.
Depending on a platform’s technical capabilities and integration, the system could allow, restrict, withhold or escalate flagged communications for review before they reach a child.
Those preventive AI functions remain under development. REGO did not identify a commercial availability date or provide performance data establishing their effectiveness.
Lisa Strohman, REGO Guardian’s head of product, said the expansion is intended to address risks arising from increasingly personalized AI systems that can maintain conversations and retain information about individual users.
“We cannot continue asking parents to protect their children with tools that only alert them after the damage is done,” Strohman said.
The proposed system would also allow guardians to establish restrictions governing access to behavioral information, location data, biometric identifiers and other sensitive information.
REGO is positioning the technology for use across gaming, social media, financial services and other digital platforms incorporating autonomous AI agents.
The company’s approach separates parental authorization from the applications enforcing those permissions. Participating services would receive verified access instructions rather than independently collecting and storing children’s identifying information.
That distinction could become increasingly relevant as technology companies deploy AI agents capable of accessing applications, processing user information and communicating directly with consumers.
Peter S. Pelullo, REGO’s chief executive officer, said the company sees a commercial opportunity in connecting age verification, parental authorization and automated policy enforcement across different platforms.
“Companies are investing billions in autonomous technologies, yet age verification, parental authority, and child-specific policy enforcement remain fragmented,” Pelullo said.
The expansion moves REGO Guardian beyond parental consent verification toward a broader system for governing minors’ interactions with digital services.
Its commercial reach will depend on platform adoption and the development of the proposed AI safeguards, which would need to operate within participating companies’ existing technology and communication systems.
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