Resources
Long-form essays and working notes.
The place where conceptual arguments from the pillars are stress-tested against concrete scenarios. Working notes, not news. Each resource connects a topic to what a merchant can audit in its catalog, content, endpoints, checkout rules or proof data.
How to use these resources
Resources extend the pillar pages. They help test an assumption, prepare a roadmap, or turn an agentic commerce concept into an architecture, content or product-data decision.
Each note favors reusable scenarios: AI answer visibility, agent-readable catalogs, interoperability, agent-pay rails and merchant readiness.
Use this section as a prioritization workshop. When a topic affects discoverability, start with product fields, cited sources and proof pages. When it affects transactions, begin with operational constraints: availability, price, variants, delivery zones, returns and order state.
The notes do not replace official specifications. They translate their implications into concrete decisions for SEO, product and engineering teams preparing a commerce site to be read by agents.
- 10-note series
UCP implementation research
Versioned validation notes, protocol test matrices and reproducible implementation checklists based on primary specifications.
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- 9 min read
From SEO to agent visibility: a mental model
Why ranking for humans and being retrieved by agents are related but distinct practices, and how to sequence the two.
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- 12 min read
Anatomy of an agent purchase
A step-by-step decomposition of a shopping agent purchase, from intent formation to post-sale tracking.
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- 10 min read
Catalog as API
Treating the product catalog as a deliberate API surface, versioned, typed, documented. The mindset shift, the operational implications.
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