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The Agentic AI Advantage: Your Guide to Autonomous Commerce for Retail

In the near future, your next best customer might not even be human. Gartner predicts that by 2028, “machine customers” will account for 20% of all digital storefront interactions and completely reinvent the customer experience. The competitive battleground is no longer about the beauty of your website’s UI/UX, but about the fluency and performance of your APIs.

Are you prepared to win in this new era of commerce? This is your guide to navigating the shift to autonomous commerce. We will provide you with real-world use cases and a strategic blueprint to help you move beyond simple automation and unlock a new era of intelligent retail that caters to both human and machine customers.

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What You'll Learn

In this guide, we’ll explore real-world use cases where AI agents are transforming the core functions of retail—from customized shopper interactions to proactive back-office operations.

The Paradigm Shift: Understand why agentic AI, which acts for users, is a fundamental shift from generative AI, which merely assists them.

Architectural Traps: Learn why “bolt-on” AI solutions fail and discover the key to a successful agentic strategy.

The Blueprint for Agentic Success: See real-world use cases where AI agents are transforming core B2B functions—from enhancing buyer self-service to automating back-office operations.

The Agentic Readiness Checklist: Evaluate your platform’s capabilities and identify if your business is truly prepared for the transition to an autonomous commerce ecosystem.

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Framework vs. Finished Solution: Stop building science projects. Learn why deploying a pre-trained, managed solution is the key to generating revenue in months, not years.

About KIBO

Kibo Commerce is a cloud-based, composable commerce platform that helps businesses create order management, eCommerce, and subscription experiences. It’s designed with microservices, APIs, cloud-native solutions, and Headless architecture (MACH) principles. Kibo is the only modular commerce platform that supports these experiences.

KIBO is trusted by leading brands worldwide

KIBO supports composable commerce and order management experiences for B2C, B2B, and D2C companies across verticals.

KIBO customers see serious ROI:

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Bill Kiss

Bill Kiss

SVP, CMO & Head of Omnichannel at Ace Hardware

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We wouldn’t be where we are today

We wouldn’t be where we are today in this growing, strategically important business – digital at Ace – without our partners. I look at Kibo; It’s important to where we’ve been and where we’re going.

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Customer Story: Dann Garner from Fortis Life Sciences

Dann Gardner, Director of Technology Product Management at Fortis Life Sciences, shares why the B2B company chose Kibo for its API-first approach, B2B capabilities, and quick implementation.