Building a listed tool
Rao Surapaneni
VP/GM, Business Applications Platform, Google Cloud; co-author of the AP2 launch post, named behind the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Rao builds
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) C · Agent checkout protocols
Google's protocol for authorising agent payments, now governed by the FIDO Alliance.
VP/GM, Business Applications Platform, Google Cloud; co-author of the AP2 launch post, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Larry Page Co-founder, Google
- Sergey Brin Co-founder, Google
- Stavan Parikh VP/GM, Payments, Google; co-author of the AP2 launch and FIDO donation posts
Questions
Who is Rao Surapaneni?
Rao Surapaneni is VP/GM, Business Applications Platform at Google Cloud; co-author of the AP2 launch post.
What does Google (AP2 donated to the FIDO Alliance) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) from Google (AP2 donated to the FIDO Alliance). Google's protocol for authorising agent payments, now governed by the FIDO Alliance.
How are Rao's tools graded?
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is graded C, 55.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (5)
- https://ap2-protocol.org
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol
- https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/google-pay/agent-payments-protocol-fido-alliance/
- https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/
- https://about.google/intl/ALL_en/our-story/
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