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Essays on agentic AI, autonomous transactions, and what it takes to let software buy things on your behalf.
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Corporate travel is the most rule-bound purchase in business — which makes it the perfect job for an agent. Policy-faithful bookings, one tap to approve the corporate card, and about $53 saved every time a human doesn’t have to do it.
Founder & Head of Agents
AP2’s mandate machinery grew up in the world of recurring subscriptions and merchant-initiated charges. Stretch it over autonomous one-shot purchases and the seams show — in the merchant’s chargeback column.
By David Broderick
When software spends money while you sleep, promises aren’t enough. Independent certification is how every party in an agentic transaction knows it’s safe — and Orchard28 holds that bar today.
By David Broderick
Uber settled the question of who signs the receipt a decade ago. Agentic commerce inherits the same answer — and the lift to make it work today is smaller than it looks.
By David Broderick