AI Commerce
Designing Checkout for Agents, Not Humans
The product patterns that emerge when the buyer is an LLM, not a person.
By Marcus Thorne · May 22, 2025 · 9 min read
Checkout designed for human conversion is built around persuasion and trust. Checkout designed for autonomous agents is built around machine-readable price discovery, structured authorization, and predictable error semantics.
The shift requires merchants to expose richer product, price, and policy data to API surfaces - and to think carefully about the authorization scopes they accept from agent-bearing tokens.
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