Research

We started studying this before we sold it.

Why we call ourselves agentic commerce experts

At ReKnew, our engineers began researching agentic commerce the moment the first protocols appeared, and did all of the work below before Reknew Commerce launched. This page is where that work lives, and it grows as more of it is written up.

Who's behind itReKnew

Company: ReKnew, an enterprise data and AI transformation company.
Founded by: Practitioners who built and ran data, analytics and AI programs at some of the world's largest financial institutions.
The approach: The team that led and created Reknew Commerce read the specs, built the tools and mapped the space before offering the service.

The groundwork

The work that went into knowing this space.

Protocol research, tracking tools, platform studies and a map of the market. Each one is a piece of how we became, and stay, current on agentic commerce.

Spec study01

Protocol research

A weekly deep dive led by senior management into ACP, UCP, AP2 and the card-network rails as they ship: what each one asks of a merchant, where they overlap, and where they don't.

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Tooling02

Protocol tracking tools

The specs are young and change often. We built the tooling that watches every release and tells us what changed, so our connectors and our advice stay current.

Switchboardby ReknewTracks protocol drift and the data layer beneath it.

Internal toolRead more

Platform study03

Vendor transformation research

We took Apache OFBiz, an older open-source commerce platform, and made it agent-ready end to end: the catalog work, the checkout handoff, the dependencies, and where the platform helped or got in the way. The test store that came out of it is Reknew Marketplace.

Working buildRead more

Tooling04

Agentic commerce space mapping

Who is in the space and how the pieces connect: assistants, protocols, commerce platforms, payment rails, and the vendors between them. Built as a tool so the map stays current as the space changes.

SAGEby ReknewMaps the agentic commerce space as a knowledge graph.

Internal toolRead more

Experiment05

AEO study

An experiment in answer engine optimisation: what it takes to make our own test marketplace rank higher in agent conversations, with every change and its effect documented.

ExperimentRead more

Built by us06

Merchant hub

A directory of agent-ready merchants, built so agents can search it directly through MCP connectors and find stores they can buy from.

Merchant Hubby ReknewThe searchable directory of agent-ready merchants, open to agents over MCP.

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Agent demo07

UCP agent demo

A working agent that shops over UCP, Google's Universal Commerce Protocol: discovery, cart and checkout against an agent-ready store, end to end.

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Agent demo08

ACP agent demo

A working agent that shops over ACP, the Agentic Commerce Protocol from OpenAI and Stripe: product feed in, checkout handoff out, end to end.

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Integration09

Payment rails integration and simulation

Agent checkout wired to real payment rails in test: the Stripe sandbox and Fiserv's agentic commerce tools, integrated and run end to end so the payment leg is tested, not assumed.

Working buildRead more

Put it to work

This research informs every engagement. The audit is where it starts.

The readiness audit assesses your store against the protocol requirements, platform findings and market tracking documented on this page. It is delivered for a fixed fee, and the report remains yours.

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