Marketplaces need vendors, payouts, catalogue, accounts and trust — the exact substrate VBWD ships (marketplace, shop, multi-tenant, payouts, subscriptions). You…
How to Build a Travel Aggregator You Own — Hotels and Flights on VBWD
You integrate supplier/GDS APIs for inventory; VBWD is the commerce, booking, payment and ownership layer around them — so you…
The Click Is Disappearing From Search — and Being the Source an AI Cites Is the New Visibility
Two-thirds of Google searches now end without a click, and up to 83% when AI Overviews appear. But AI-referred retail…
Intuit launches AI audit tools for mid-market finance
Intuit’s August 12 AI upgrades set a transparent audit benchmark; Xero and Microsoft counter as mid-market CFOs demand auditable automation.…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 5: Discoverability, Testing, and Going Live
Part 5 of 5, the wrap-up. How a business becomes discoverable to and chosen by AI assistants, how to test…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 4: Settling the Transaction
Part 4 of 5. Payment rails for agent-driven purchases: provider-agnostic adapters that let you swap providers without rewriting checkout, and…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 3: Authoritative Pricing and Scoped Actions
Part 3 of 5. Why the price an agent sees must come from the same engine as human checkout —…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 2: Exposing a Safe, Machine-Readable Catalogue
Part 2 of 5. How to make catalogue and availability readable by AI agents while a core search seam refuses…
How Next’s international online sales surged 36.9% while UK stalls
Next’s Q2 2026 results reveal a 9.2% sales surge, driven by overseas online growth, while UK e-commerce matures and heatwaves…
How Yamada Denki’s AI voice agent earned 4.8/5 rating from 50,000 shoppers
Yamada Denki’s AI voice agent handles 50k interactions with 4.8/5 rating, while 500+ retailers adopt GPT-Realtime in a month. Consumer…