Agentic Commerce 2026: AI Shoppers Do the Shopping

About this episode

This episode explores the evolution of AI agents in shopping, focusing on their transition from answering questions to making purchases autonomously.

A deep dive into how AI agents move from answering questions to taking real buying actions on your behalf. We break down the surge of agentic commerce, the infrastructure that makes it possible (and the ‘invisibility’ problem), real-world wins from Klarna to IKEA, and a practical playbook to launch a simple agent in 10 days. If you want to know how data readiness and plug‑and‑play models are reshaping shopping, this episode is for you. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes...

People in this episode

Host: Mike Breault

Topics covered

• AI agents
• agentic commerce
• shopping technology
• data readiness
• plug-and-play models

Keywords

• AI shoppers
• agentic commerce
• buying actions
• infrastructure
• real-world applications

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Klarna, IKEA

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