INDEPENDENT MERCHANT INTELLIGENCEPUBLIC BETA / SEPTEMBER 2026 BASELINE
Merchant Agent Readiness OS / Public Beta

Can AI shoppers
buy from
your store?

Find the public-data gaps. Test safe retrieval tasks. Fix what you can verify, then recheck the evidence.

Public evidence and safe retrieval. Purchases are not tested.

The commerce stack5 connected layers

Can machines understand you?

Keep identities, variants, price and availability consistent from your catalog to every destination.

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01Scan02Explain03Prove04Fix05Recheck06Feedback
Merchant readiness / L0

See what’s visible.
Know what to fix.

A small, careful scan of your public storefront. Every finding comes with its evidence, why it matters and a practical next step.

No login. No purchase. No checkout submission.

How we describe evidence
The expected signal was observedVerified
A specific sampled gap was foundNeeds attention
The evidence is unavailable or privateCannot verify publicly
The check does not applyNot applicable

Evidence vocabulary shown here. These are not results from a merchant scan.

The evidence watch

What changed. Why it matters.

16 SEP
2026
Market changed

Google describes UCP hub updates and a gradual US rollout

Check current Merchant Center eligibility and enabled capabilities before commissioning another connector.

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09 SEP
2026
Market changed

Mastercard announces Agent Connect

A new connectivity option to investigate. Partners expecting to use it are not verified live merchant integrations.

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01 SEP
2026
Market changed

v1.0 draft framework released for comment

Track the consultation and final specification scope; do not treat a draft as a deployed merchant requirement.

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Open the change ledger
Decisions, not rankings

Find your place in the stack.

Protocol comparison
ACP vs UCP

Two commerce standards. Different implementation paths. Start with the surface and capabilities your business needs.

CompareRole & scope
VerifyActual eligibility
Compare the evidence
Stack Finder

You may already have
more than you think.

Map what your current platform covers before adding another tool.

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Platform & tool intelligence

The right capability. In the right layer.

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Our history starts here
September
2026.

A baseline you can
come back to.

Protocols evolve. Access changes. Evidence gets better. We preserve what was known, when it was checked and what changed next.

First observed 28 September 2026. Historical facts keep their original effective dates.

College / guided learning

Understand enough to make the next move.

Find your starting point

Short learning paths through the reference library and practical tools.

Evidence before certainty. Every material claim has a source and a checked date. Unknown stays Unknown. Commercial relationships never determine our comparisons.

Our methodology