Insights into AI Payments and Identity

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

  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 […]