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5 of 5Commerce · Published — available to readCommerce architecture25+ years designing and delivering commerce platforms across retail, B2B, grocery, and multi-brand businesses.Commerce · Live — available to use nowBC SubscriptionsA subscription engine demonstrated on a live BigCommerce store — billing, dunning recovery, and a self-serve subscriber portal, with the Kibble & Co demo storefront to walk through.Commerce · Live — available to use nowAislesA storefront that reads the intent behind each visit and generates the category page to fit — same URL, same products, four different layouts.Commerce · Live — available to use nowAsk BCAn AI assistant that answers questions about a live store's orders, products, and customers — and asks for explicit confirmation before it changes anything.Publishing · Live — available to use nowSignal DispatchEssays, fiction, tutorials, and research on architecture, commerce, and AI-assisted work.
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4 of 4SessionThe Agent That Asks TwiceAsk BC is a production agent with 29 tools against a live commerce store — 22 that read, 7 that can change it — deployed split across a Next.js app and a Cloudflare Worker with a Durable Object per store. Every mutation needs two turns: a preview, then an explicit confirm. Months later, a sibling platform copied the runtime wholesale for its own merchant copilot — same Durable Object, same codemode sandbox, same two-turn writes — and pointed it at a different API entirely.SessionKibble & Co. Doesn't Sell AnythingA pet-supply storefront went live on a real BigCommerce sandbox, moving real Stripe-sandbox money through real dunning logic — and it exists only so a subscription-billing platform could be built against a genuine store instead of a slide deck. Five deployed apps, 94 ADRs, and a generated file that answers 'what's shipped' so nobody has to narrate it. The method is the point; the pet food is the test fixture.SessionThe Harder Deliverable Wasn't the BuildA ten-document vendor bid package — the scoping and estimation kit a global systems integrator needs before it can bid on a BigCommerce-native subscriptions build — projected from a 28-epic, 218-story spec corpus in days, not weeks. A leakage lint hard-fails before a forbidden pattern ever reaches the export, and a bundling script freezes identical, name-stamped copies per vendor. Every document still carries status: draft-internal-review — the release checklist stayed a human's job.SessionThe Layout Was Inferred, Not DesignedAisles is a headless storefront that decides its own layout per shopper — 31 weighted rules feed a Bayesian inference engine that picks one of four personas, then an AI model generates the category page from a four-component vocabulary a Zod schema won't let it leave. Same URL, same catalog, four schema-valid layouts. On 2026-08-12 it was pointed at a real BigCommerce store for the first time — a brand-config entry, two environment variables, a harvested palette with file-line citations, and one honest bug: a client-side lookup that silently rendered furniture navigation over a pet-supply catalog.
Writing
12 of 22Essay · Commerce · 2025The Side of Agentic Commerce We're Not Talking AboutI just finished writing a whitepaper on agentic commerce. It's solid work. But something started bothering me. There's a version of this future that looks less like 'shopping gets easier' and more like 'retail becomes a trading floor.'(opens in a new tab)Whitepaper · · 2025The Fourth Channel: A Strategic Analysis of Agentic Commerce as the New Digital Wholesale(opens in a new tab)Whitepaper · · 2025The Algorithmic Consumer: Agentic Commerce, Merchandising Dynamics, and the Future of Retail Discovery(opens in a new tab)Essay · Commerce · 2025Measuring the Unowned Storefront: Observability for Agent CommerceEveryone is busy selling shovels. But the mine moved. Agents now sell on surfaces brands do not own. The win is not a better shovel. It is eyes and throttle on those agents: traces, attribution, consent, limits.(opens in a new tab)Essay · Commerce · 2025How Content and Commerce Actually Connect NowYour content is the storefront. If it’s not reducing friction or moving someone closer to a decision, it’s not connected to commerce at all.(opens in a new tab)Essay · Commerce · 2025Is Composable Just IKEA for Commerce?Composable promised freedom from the monolith. But in chasing modular flexibility, are we just assembling the same storefront with different colors and calling it strategy?(opens in a new tab)Essay · AI & Automation · 2026The Guardrail Removed the StorefrontA safe AI storefront cannot give the model a blank canvas. It also cannot remove the model and still claim that inference changes the shopping experience.(opens in a new tab)Essay · AI & Automation · 2026The Cart Is a Protocol NowEtsy and Wayfair are already processing agentic checkout through Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. OpenAI and Stripe shipped a competing one. Cart and checkout are becoming infrastructure services — and the standards war is already here.(opens in a new tab)Essay · AI & Automation · 2025Q1 2026: The Integration QuarterEveryone spent 2024-2025 experimenting with AI features. Q1 2026 is when the survivors figure out what actually works—and kill what doesn't.(opens in a new tab)Essay · AI & Automation · 2025The Storefront That Builds ItselfEvery e-commerce platform is racing to add AI features. But what if the real opportunity isn't AI features—it's AI architecture? What if the store itself could generate in real-time?(opens in a new tab)Essay · AI & Automation · 2025The Netflix Paradox: Why Shopping Isn't "Streaming" YetSpotify knows what song you want to hear next. Netflix queues up your next binge. But your favorite retailer? Still making you filter by Men > Shirts > Size L. After 15 years of personalization promises, why doesn't shopping work like streaming?(opens in a new tab)Essay · Commerce · 2025The Infinite Concierge: Why Agentic Shopping Is Just Old School Merchandising on New School RailsAgentic shopping doesn't change why we buy. It radically changes the cost of discovery and the precision of the pitch. The game is the same. The speed of the players has changed everything.(opens in a new tab)