Agentic commerce research.
Articles on shopping agents, checkout protocols, merchant checks, and order records.
Review agent checkout decisions in the merchant dashboard
When your verification system says "review this agent," you now have somewhere to do it. The Trust Operations Console gives risk teams one screen for review, approvals, and live activity — and the Agent Passport gives every agent a track record you can actually read.
Read articleAP2 mandate checks in KYA
Google donated AP2 to the FIDO Alliance and v0.2 added a Human-Not-Present mode for autonomous agents. We shipped a translation layer so a KYA trace JWT now produces an AP2 Open Checkout Mandate + Open Payment Mandate that AP2-aware merchants and processors can consume without bespoke integration.
Read articleHeadless Checkout for AI Agents: The API Contract Merchants Need
Agents need a deterministic, API-first way to complete purchases. Headless checkout pairs delegated authorization with transaction guardrails so merchants can accept agent orders without manual review.
Read articleFollow the systems behind agent traffic, not the headlines about it.
Technical analysis for the merchants, platforms, and operators who will have to run this in production.