Blog
No hype metrics, no invented forecasts — what's actually happening as shopping moves into AI assistants, and what a merchant should do about it.
Latest essay Agentic commerce
The store that blocks its best customer
Every e-commerce checkout is built to stop automated buyers. That made sense — until the automated buyer arrived holding a customer's money.
25 June 2026 · 5 min read
Standards
ACP, AP2, MCP: the protocol race, in plain English
Three acronyms decide how AI agents will buy things. Here's what each one actually does — and what a merchant genuinely needs to know.
28 May 2026 · 6 min read
Market
The window: what US agent checkout means for merchants in Europe and Asia
Agentic checkout is live in America and absent everywhere else. That asymmetry is temporary — and it's the entire opportunity.
30 April 2026 · 4 min read