The Registry is the neutral reference point for the emerging agentic commerce ecosystem — a place where standards, platforms, and merchants go to understand how ready they are for AI-native, agent-driven buying and selling.
As software agents begin to search, compare, negotiate, and transact on behalf of humans, the internet’s existing commerce stack needs a shared, independent source of truth. The Registry exists to make that reality practical, measurable, and interoperable.
Why The Registry Exists
Today, most commerce infrastructure was built for human-only workflows:
- Product data optimized for SEO and ad platforms, not agents.
- Fragmented standards and APIs across platforms and providers.
- Little visibility into how “agent-ready” a merchant or marketplace really is.
At the same time, AI agents are rapidly becoming capable of:
- Reading and acting on structured and semi-structured product data.
- Comparing options across multiple merchants and platforms.
- Executing end-to-end flows — from discovery to checkout to support.
Without a neutral reference, adoption will be slow, brittle, and uneven. The Registry’s purpose is to:
- Define what “agent-ready” means in practical, testable terms.
- Track which standards and protocols (ACP, ACK, AP2, etc.) are gaining adoption.
- Provide guidance and benchmarks so merchants, platforms, and infrastructure providers can move with confidence.
What The Registry Covers
The Registry is organized into a set of core pillars:
- Standards & Protocols
A live view of the agentic commerce standards landscape — formats, APIs, and protocols, and how they actually interoperate in practice. - Agentic Readiness & ACRI™
The Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (ACRI™) provides a structured way to benchmark how prepared a site or platform is to be understood and transacted by AI agents, not just human visitors. - Merchant & Platform Playbooks
Practical guides that help merchants, marketplaces, and platforms upgrade their feeds, flows, and policies to support agents — with concrete checklists instead of vague promises. - Platforms & Alliances
A view of the ecosystem: platforms, consortia, PSPs, and infrastructure providers, and how they participate in and support agentic commerce. - Data, Signals & Feeds
Focused on the raw material agents consume: product feeds, inventory, pricing, events, and telemetry. - Security, Trust & Governance
Identity, permissions, fraud controls, policy, and governance models that keep agentic commerce safe and trustworthy. - Case Studies & Field Notes
Evidence from the field: early pilots, production deployments, and honest analysis of what worked and what broke. - Perspectives & Futures
Forward-looking analysis and opinion pieces on where the agentic economy is heading and what it will demand of the underlying stack.
Who The Registry Is For
The Registry is designed for decision-makers and builders who need a clear view of what “agentic” actually requires:
- Merchants & brands
Looking to make their catalogs, policies, and experiences accessible to AI agents, not just human browsers. - Marketplaces & platforms
Coordinating multi-tenant ecosystems who need shared standards and readiness benchmarks. - Payments, logistics, and infrastructure providers
Enabling the underlying flows that agents will orchestrate on behalf of buyers and sellers. - Standards bodies, alliances, and consortia
Seeking a neutral place to document, compare, and align their work with the broader agentic commerce stack. - Policymakers and regulators
Who need a grounded understanding of how agentic commerce actually operates in practice.
Stewardship & Independence
The Registry is intended to function as an independent, neutral reference for the agentic commerce ecosystem.
It was initiated and is currently underwritten by AgenticCommerce.com, which serves as the founding steward. The Registry itself is hosted at agenticcommerce.org and is explicitly designed to support the broader community of merchants, platforms, and infrastructure providers — not just a single vendor.
Over time, the goal is to broaden stewardship to include additional ecosystem partners, standards bodies, and contributors, while maintaining:
- Neutrality in how technologies and platforms are evaluated.
- Transparency in how readiness and standards are defined.
- Practicality in the guidance we provide.
In short: The Registry should feel like infrastructure, not a marketing campaign.
How to Participate
We’re at the beginning of this transition, and The Registry is deliberately being built in partnership with early ecosystem leaders.
If you:
- Operate a platform, marketplace, or large merchant footprint,
- Maintain or implement agentic commerce standards or protocols,
- Provide critical infrastructure (payments, logistics, feeds, analytics),
- Or are a policymaker, alliance, or standards body working in this space,
…we’d like to hear from you.
Join as a founding member
We are currently inviting a small set of organizations to participate as founding members and early advisors to The Registry — helping to shape:
- The evolution of ACRI™ and readiness benchmarks.
- The initial standards & protocols matrix.
- The first wave of playbooks and case studies.
To express interest or request a briefing, please email:
with a short description of who you are, your role in the ecosystem, and how you see agentic commerce affecting your work over the next 12–24 months.
What’s Next
In the coming months, The Registry will publish:
- The first public draft of the Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (ACRI™).
- Initial reference mappings between major commerce platforms and agentic standards.
- Practical playbooks for key scenarios (e.g., “Preparing your marketplace for agentic buyers,” “Agent-ready product feeds,” etc.).
- A growing library of case studies and field notes from real implementations.
If you’d like to stay informed as these are released, you can subscribe via the homepage or contact us at info@agenticcommerce.com to request an executive briefing.