Tag: agent payments

  • Checkout Gets Completely Reinvented

    Checkout Gets Completely Reinvented

    Stripe’s new agentic payment infrastructure removes the final friction point in ecommerce. When AI agents handle checkout instead of humans, conversion rates jump 4x and cart abandonment drops 15-30%. A $3-5 trillion market opportunity by 2030 is being built right now.

  • The Payment Network Nobody’s Talking About

    The Payment Network Nobody’s Talking About In 2023 I watched a $4,200 payment take six business days to clear between two domestic businesses. Both used major banks. Both used standard ACH. Nobody could explain why it took six days. It just did. That’s the payment infrastructure underlying most of American B2B commerce: slow, opaque, tolerant…

  • The Day My AI Agent Got Outbid by Another AI Agent

    The Day My AI Agent Got Outbid by Another AI Agent

    The Day My AI Agent Got Outbid by Another AI Agent I found out about it in a text message. Our procurement agent had been trying to lock in a bulk order of restoration supplies — the kind of purchase we make six or eight times a year, predictable as the calendar. Except this time…

  • Agentic Commerce Standards Gain Momentum

    Agentic Commerce Standards Gain Momentum

    Splitit backs UCP, Mastercard rolls out Verifiable Intent, Nexi partners with Google.