Agentic Commerce: Why Your Next Customer Might Be a Bot, Not a Person
Picture this: someone tells their AI assistant they need a wool coat under four hundred dollars from a sustainable brand, and to grab it if there's a discount this weekend. They close the app. Two days later, the coat shows up. They never visited a website, never compared five tabs, never clicked an ad. That's not a hypothetical anymore; it's what agentic commerce already looks like in practice. Agentic commerce is the shift where AI agents don't just help someone shop; they do the shopping. Research, comparison, negotiation, checkout all of it handled by software acting on a person's behalf, often with the brand never getting a direct look at the human on the other end. What Agentic Commerce Actually Means Agentic commerce means an AI agent researches, compares, and completes a purchase on someone's behalf, usually with only light human oversight. It's a step beyond the assistant that suggests products for you to click on. Here, the agent does th...
