Author: Will Tygart
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I Spent a Morning Breaking Google Flow’s Image AI — The Burn-In Problem Is Real (But Not How You Think)
I ran experiments on Google Flow to find out if AI image generators develop ‘memory’ that locks in elements you…
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What Commerce Looks Like in 2028: A Scenario Planning Exercise
Three plausible 2028 scenarios for how agentic commerce infrastructure develops — and what decisions made in 2026 determine which scenario…
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The Invisible Middlemen Getting Disrupted First by Agentic Commerce
The businesses that extract value by controlling information asymmetry are the first to be disrupted by AI agents that eliminate…
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Training Data and Agent Commerce: What Data Scientists Need to Know About UCP Transaction Logs
How UCP transaction log data can and cannot be used for training AI systems, and the governance framework that governs…
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UCP Subscription Commerce: Agents & Recurring Buys
How UCP’s recurring authorization model lets agents manage subscriptions, renewal decisions, and cancellations on behalf of human subscribers.
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The Trust Problem Is Not Technical. It Is Institutional.
AI agent commerce trust is institutional, not technical: who issues credentials, who audits behavior, who enforces consequences. UCP’s answer.
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UCP Rate Limiting: Build Agents That Respect Limits
Build well-behaved UCP agents that read merchant rate-limit headers, back off correctly, and avoid throttling under high-concurrency loads.
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UCP for Healthcare Procurement: Compliance Architecture for Agent Purchasing in Regulated Environments
How UCP’s compliance architecture addresses the specific requirements of healthcare procurement including HIPAA, GPO compliance, and audit trail mandates.
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UCP 1.2 Release: What Changed for Agent Commerce
UCP 1.2 ships multi-agent coordination, granular spend controls, and new fulfillment event types enterprises require for production rollouts.
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When the Agent Is Wrong: Dispute Resolution in Agentic Commerce
What happens when an AI agent makes a purchase the human did not intend, and how UCP’s dispute architecture handles…