AI Commerceobserved without fanfare.
A quarterly assessment of what is genuinely in production at the intersection of AI and e-commerce, what is moving into credible deployment and where the gap between narrative and reality continues to sit.
Only initiatives whose technical substance is publicly verifiable and whose mechanics rest on genuine generative or agentic AI are included.
Reports published so far
AI Commerce Status Report Q2 2026: From Promise to Division of Labour
The second quarter of 2026 visibly separates the agentic discovery layer from the transaction layer and produces the first documented losers of that separation. The updated report joins the May stock-take with the decisive moves through late June and weighs the K5 conference theses against the evidence with quiet candour.
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AI Commerce Status Report Q1 2026: Reality, Readiness and the Gap Between Hype and Execution
A calm, fact-based reading of where AI Commerce actually stands at the start of 2026. What is genuinely in production, what is being built, and where the gap between confident narrative and operational reality continues to sit.
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Each report covers only initiatives publicly announced or rolled out in production within the relevant quarter. We include programmes whose technical architecture is verifiably described and whose AI component goes beyond rule-based automation or classical recommender systems.
Pure marketing announcements without recognisable technical substance are excluded. So are programmes marketed as "AI Commerce" that in practice rest on pre-trained decision trees or classical statistics.
Repetitions across reports are avoided. Earlier topics are revisited only where substantive new developments make a fresh assessment worthwhile.