Craig DeWitt, Author at Skyfire

Uncategorized 9 min read | Craig DeWitt

The Agentic Commerce Gauntlet: Why AI Agents Fail at Checkout

Why is an agentic commerce transaction still so difficult? Agentic commerce success rates are all over the map. In our own testing at Skyfire, we’ve seen merchants where AI agents successfully complete more than 90% of attempted transactions. At others, success rates hover between 30% and 40%. And at some merchants, agents fail 100% of […]

Uncategorized 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

What does Agentic Identity mean?

What the heck is Agentic Identity? Identity is a very overloaded term. The fundamental problem with how we’re discussing agentic identity is that we’re using the word “identity” to describe very different things. Web Bot Auth, OAuth, the newly announced Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and Know Your Agent (KYA) are all part of the conversation. […]

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What Is the Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and What Does It Mean for Businesses?

AI agents are increasingly interacting with businesses on behalf of consumers. They’re browsing websites, researching products, accessing accounts, and attempting to complete transactions. But most business digital interfaces weren’t designed for this. Most websites and business systems were built around two types of traffic: humans using browsers and applications accessing APIs. AI agents introduce a […]

Uncategorized 4 min read | Craig DeWitt

Your Customers’ AI Agents Are Already Trying to Shop With You

If you’re a large merchant, agentic commerce is no longer a future problem. Your customers’ AI agents are already showing up on your website. Over the last six months, we’ve spent a lot of time working with large merchants on what agentic commerce actually looks like in production. Across those conversations, we’re seeing the same […]

Uncategorized 3 min read | Craig DeWitt

Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy

Fireside Chat: Mr. 403 Meets the Agent Economy If you’ve ever tried to run an AI agent at scale across the open web, you’ve likely hit a wall of “403 Forbidden.” Behind many of those blocks is Akamai, the world’s largest edge security and bot management platform. At the Agentic Commerce event, Skyfire sat […]

Uncategorized 4 min read | Craig DeWitt

Auth0 x Skyfire: Agentic Commerce

Inside the Auth0 + Skyfire Demo: How Agents Can Act on Your Behalf Without Exposing Identity or Payment Credentials For years, Auth0 has been at the forefront of identity and access management, powering login, authentication, and API protection for thousands of applications and platforms. But at the Skyfire Agentic Commerce event, they showed something different: […]

Uncategorized 7 min read | Craig DeWitt

Agentic Commerce: The Rise of Tokenized Payments and Identity

The internet is changing again. After evolving from static web pages to dynamic applications and APIs, a new shift is underway. This time, it’s not just about users. It’s about agents. Software agents—powered by large language models, task automation frameworks, and decision engines—are beginning to act on behalf of people and organizations. They book meetings, […]

AI Trends 6 min read | Craig DeWitt

Skyfire Launches: Identity and Payments for Autonomous AI Agents

Today marks the public launch of Skyfire platform, the first infrastructure layer purpose-built to give AI agents identity and payment capabilities—turning them into real, verified customers. With Skyfire, agents can now sign up, authenticate, and pay for services programmatically—without breaking, needing human intervention, or leaving the platform. It’s the missing layer that unlocks frictionless agent-native […]

AI Trends 5 min read | Craig DeWitt

The Missing Business Layer of MCP

Turning Model Context Protocol into a True Commercial Interface for Agents. Model Context Protocol (MCP) has captured the imagination of the developer community. It’s elegant. It’s simple. It’s fast becoming the foundational layer for how AI agents interact with services, tools, and data on the internet. MCP allows AI agents to call tools via a […]