Usercentrics has acquired MCP Manager, a governance platform for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), marking a strategic move to extend privacy and consent management from websites and apps into AI-driven workflows. The acquisition aims to provide businesses with oversight and control over how AI models access and use data, addressing critical compliance needs as regulations like the EU AI Act come into force.
Usercentrics acquires MCP Manager, a governance platform for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
The move extends privacy and consent controls from websites/apps into AI agent workflows.
It addresses compliance challenges as AI agents access CRM and customer data.
MCP serves as the enforcement point for consent checks and data governance in AI systems.
The unified platform aims to turn compliance into a strategic competitive advantage.
Usercentrics processes 8.8 billion consents monthly across 2.4+ million sites and apps.
The acquisition allows Usercentrics to expand its Privacy-Led Marketing suite into the rapidly growing domain of AI. As AI agents increasingly interact with customer data for personalization and engagement, ensuring these interactions respect user consent and privacy regulations becomes paramount. By integrating MCP Manager's capabilities, Usercentrics can apply the same rigorous governance applied at data collection to real-time, model-driven interactions.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a standard for connecting AI models to organizational data systems. MCP Manager provides a policy-enforcement layer that acts as a control plane, enabling companies to monitor and enforce how AI systems access data. This solves key problems like AI agents accessing CRM data without proper consent checks or lacking audit trails for regulatory explanations, which are critical as the EU AI Act moves into enforcement.
The combined platform is designed to help organizations innovate with AI faster while maintaining compliance and user trust. By providing governance at the infrastructure level, businesses can scale AI responsibly, turning what is often seen as a compliance burden into a strategic differentiator. This positions Usercentrics at the forefront of defining governed AI infrastructure as a new standard in the market.
This strategic acquisition underscores the evolving intersection of data privacy and artificial intelligence, where technical protocols like MCP become essential for implementing ethical and legal guardrails in enterprise AI deployments.
About MCP Manager
MCP Manager launched out of New York City in 2025, quickly building the only production-grade MCP gateway on the market with observability, security, consent enforcement, and effortless deployment. Their team includes contributors to the official MCP specification and experts at AI security, governance, and productivity.
About Usercentrics
Usercentrics is a global leader in data privacy technology, pioneering Privacy-Led Marketing for the digital economy. We help businesses turn trust into a competitive advantage. Supporting over 2.4 million websites and apps in 195 countries, Usercentrics processes 8.8 billion user consents every month.
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