E-Commerce in the Age of LLMs
Learn how LLMs, agent protocols, payment infrastructure, product data, and platform strategy are changing digital commerce.
The Shift to Agentic Commerce
Understand the move from human-driven search to agent-driven fulfillment.
The Evolution of Digital Commerce
The inflection points that moved commerce from catalogs to search to AI-assisted buying.
Defining Agentic Commerce
What agentic commerce means and how autonomous buying differs from ordinary automation.
The User Experience of Tomorrow
How users delegate discovery, evaluation, purchase, and support to agents.
The New Protocols
ACP and MCP as infrastructure for commerce agents.
Intro to Model Context Protocol (MCP)
How MCP standardizes tool, context, and resource access for AI systems.
The Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)
The commerce-specific standard for agent negotiation and transactions.
How MCP and ACP Work Together
How context, tools, identity, and transactions combine into one workflow.
Financial Infrastructure
Payments, identity, trust, and liability for non-human actors.
The Payment Problem
Why agent-initiated payment creates new questions around authorization and risk.
Stripe's Agentic Future
How payment infrastructure may adapt APIs and controls for AI agents.
PayPal and Trust Identity
Identity, trust, and reputation in agent-led payments.
Platforms and Supply Side
How merchants and platforms expose useful data to buying agents.
Shopify: Storefront to API
Why storefront platforms become structured data providers for agents.
The End-to-End Agentic Workflow
Intent, discovery, negotiation, payment, fulfillment, and support in one flow.
Optimizing Product Data for Agents
How to structure product data so agents can evaluate and compare it accurately.
Strategy and Future Landscape
Security, governance, brand strategy, and practical preparation.
Security and Governance
Controls, permissions, and policy decisions for agentic commerce systems.
The Brand-Agent Relationship
How brands must communicate value when agents mediate the customer journey.
Preparing Your Business
A readiness plan for product data, protocols, payments, and agent strategy.