kevinfee

How do you think AI will change society?

try having an agent buy you something. That fear is not the reality.

That is a fair critique. If you don't spend much time buying things and/or enjoy shopping, then there isn't any need/pain point there.

I think there are a group of consumers out there that do have a pain point in that there are things they want/need to buy and hate the shopping part of it. I know I fall into that category. The issue with the regular/recurring purchases is it needs to be exactly the same thing/amount on a regular time interval. For me at least, I either end up stacking up more than what I need or run out before it gets there.

I think the business demand is a completely other beast in an of itself. Ranging from solopreneurs/small companies who have agents running a all or part of their business to big business wanting to replace the people in the accounts payable department.

For consumers like me, I don't want to have to put the same 25 things I buy every week in my grocery order. It is always a hassle. If there is a group of 10 people ordering food it is a pain in the ass to put everyones order in.

For businesses, AI agents cost less than people. Companies all have people working in accounts payable. Also, at businesses when a employee needs a new piece of software, they often have to request the seat. If the company needs to buy more seats, someone has to do that. Buying one more seat is a simple activity yet someone is being paid $70K plus to do taht from the IT department.

This is probably one of the least promotional blog posts on this website. This gives many people valuable information about the state of agentic commerce and offers a solution to many of the problems.

Would love to know if any of you all have used an agent to make a purchase, and if so, how it went?

If you haven't I would love to know why not and if I missed any reasons why people aren't using it yet.

Thanks!

Founder of Authoryze here (my co-founder Reagan wrote this piece). We build payment controls for AI agents so we are not neutral on this topic. However, we are interested in the use cases for AI agents buying things. Would be awesome if you all could let me know what you have had your agents buy or considered having your agents buy.

Thank you!

my email is [email protected] in case anyone wants to contact me

Hey Everyone-

I created Authoryze because I was playing around with my agent to see if it could make me money while I chill.

However, I realized that I didn't want to just give my agent my credit card information because I worried it would buy the same thing over and over, buy something I didn't want or wouldn't make money, or a bad actor would trick my agent to giving them my card info.

That is why I created Authoryze- the authorization and control layer for AI agent spending. Essentially we sit in between your agent and your payment methods. The agent must request to make a purchase, and if its approved (by you or pre-set rules), then the agent is given a scoped, single use credential using Mastercard AgentPay, Visa Intelligent Commerce, or Privacy.com.

I would love for you all to check it out and let me know if there is anything I can do to improve it/make it more valuable to you. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!