Author: Will Tygart
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CTO Guide to UCP: Architecture Decisions You Need to Make Before You Deploy
The architecture choices that determine how well a UCP deployment scales, handles failure, and integrates with existing systems — before…
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Will’s Take: The Agent Economy Doesn’t Need More Protocols. It Needs Merchants to Actually Use One.
We have plenty of protocol proposals and not enough adoption. The bottleneck in agentic commerce right now is merchant implementation,…
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UCP Product Catalog API: How to Expose Your Inventory to AI Agents
How merchants structure and serve product catalog data through the UCP catalog API so AI agents can discover, evaluate, and…
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What CFOs Need to Know About Agentic Commerce Spend Controls
How finance teams should think about authorizing, auditing, and reclaining control over AI agent purchasing across the enterprise.
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Cloudflare’s EmDash: What an AI-Native CMS Means for the Future of Commerce Infrastructure
Cloudflare launched EmDash, an open-source CMS that sandboxes plugins, scales to zero, and ships with a built-in MCP server. Here’s…
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UCP Webhooks for Agent Commerce: Real-Time Fulfillment Without Polling
How UCP webhook architecture keeps agents informed of fulfillment status in real time without constant polling that drains API quotas…
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Agentic Commerce Decision Framework: Should Your Business Build, Buy, or Wait?
A structured decision framework for ecommerce leaders weighing when and how to adopt agentic commerce — with clear criteria for…
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What Happens When an AI Agent Buys From Your Store (And You’re Not Ready)
A real-world walkthrough of what breaks when AI shopping agents hit an unprepared merchant — and the revenue you’re silently…
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The 90-Day Agentic Commerce Implementation Playbook: From Zero to Production
A week-by-week implementation guide for merchants deploying agentic commerce with UCP — from technical discovery through production launch and optimization.
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Visa vs Mastercard Agentic Commerce Scorecard: Who’s Winning the Compliance Race?
An independent, interactive comparison of how Visa and Mastercard are preparing for AI agent transactions across 7 critical dimensions.