Agentic AI
Agentic AI is software that acts on its own to reach a goal, taking multiple steps and using tools, rather than only answering a single prompt. In commerce, an agentic system can search, compare, and complete a purchase without a person driving each step.
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What this means for your store
The word "agentic" is what separates today's AI shopping from a simple chatbot: the software takes actions on the shopper's behalf. For a store, that raises the bar from "be findable" to "be transactable," because the agent may try to complete an agentic checkout, not just describe you.