Analysis
Periodic, dated breakdowns of where agentic commerce is actually moving. Every claim links to a primary source, the same standard we hold the rest of the site to. For the raw timeline see the changelog, and for the numbers see the statistics.
llms.txt for agentic commerce: what it is, whether it works, and how to ship one
The curated Markdown file that hands AI assistants a map of your best pages. Origin, the honest supply-vs-demand status in 2026, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and how to write a good one. Dated and sourced.
Read the analysis →How AI shopping agents find and read your products
The protocols settle how an agent pays; they do nothing to guarantee an agent finds and correctly reads your catalogue. What an agent reads on a product page, what the GEO research proves, and a checklist to be agent-ready. Dated and sourced.
Read the analysis →Agentic commerce in June 2026: the month the payment networks went all in
Visa Intelligent Commerce and the OpenAI deal, Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines, Shopify’s open agentic layer, Coinbase x402 on AWS, and Europe’s first live agentic payments. Dated and sourced.
Read the analysis →Card networks vs open protocols: who controls agentic commerce
The open protocols define how agents transact; Visa and Mastercard are claiming the acceptance and trust layer on top. What June 2026 made explicit.
Read the analysis →Agentic commerce goes live in Europe
Worldline, ING, Nordea and Getnet ran the first production agentic payments, PayPal launched UK in-app checkout, and the FCA began talking about know your agent.
Read the analysis →Stay current on the standards
A note when a standard moves (ACP, UCP, AP2, MCP, x402). No spam.