Research, guides & ecosystem updates
Original research on UCP adoption, monthly state-of-agentic-commerce reports, platform guides, and the latest spec changes — written for developers and platform teams building for agentic commerce.
What shopping agents do when the store misbehaves
We built a UCP flower shop that fails in six specific ways and ran 150 sessions across Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok, rec...
Which AI Models Can Actually Complete a Checkout? The Benchmark Just Refreshed to the Frontier
UCP Playground's agentic-checkout leaderboard now spans 20 models across 8 providers — Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.5, Kimi K3,...
UCP Playground at 1,000+ Agent Sessions: What 16 Models and 97 Real Stores Reveal About AI Shopping
Two and a half months after we shipped UCP Playground with 114 agent sessions, the dataset has crossed the 1,000-session...
Agentic Commerce Optimization: What 4,491 Merchants Reveal About UCP Readiness
Everyone's publishing guides on how to get UCP ready. We measured who actually is. Data from 4,491 merchants on capabili...
We Tested 5 AI Models on Expiring Travel Inventory — Here's How They Failed
We built a mock travel server with expiring offers and tested Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok against it. No model checks...
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