Agentic Commerce

Merchants have seen this pitch before. In 2014 it was CurrentC. Now it's Instant Checkout. Here's how agentic commerce is following the mobile curve, and the three questions that separate a durable bet from a flop.

October 2, 2026

AI agents handling real money need structural guardrails. Mandates limit how much agents can spend, at which merchants, and for how long. They're not rules agents follow, they're boundaries the infrastructure enforces.

September 24, 2026

Visa is routing four agentic commerce protocols through one integration rather than picking a winner. Here's what that says about ACP, UCP, and the credential decision buried inside a protocol sign-off.

August 24, 2026

A plain breakdown of what agentic commerce and agentic payments mean, with a simple test for figuring out which one is your problem to solve.

September 8, 2026

AI agents can't retry a declined card the way a human shopper does. If a processor owns your network tokens, you can't reroute that sale, and 93% of companies are in exactly that position.

August 13, 2026

AI agents are already showing up at checkout, and most fraud stacks weren't built to handle them. Here's what readiness actually looks like before the category scales.

September 11, 2026