Ran into a similar situation before and got really frustrated. Tagging two friends who I think may be able to solve this issue: @feiyou_guo@MonidHQ@AI_Nate_SA
when are we getting “phone use” like computer use?
asked my Instinct to call my Uber driver and it said it can’t tap the button on my phone 😫 skill issues
Exactly. Price transparency is ultimately about matching what happened to what was supposed to happen.
And I think in the agent era, AI can actually help close information gaps across venues: comparing prices, routes, terms, and alternatives faster than any human buyer could.
But that only works if agents operate with proper guardrails. When AI spends or negotiates on our behalf, we need verifiable authorization and execution records to prove it acted within mandate and in the user’s best interest.
Otherwise, opacity doesn’t disappear — it just moves faster.
My main takeaway from the episode: the key question in agentic commerce isn’t whether agents will transact — it’s where adoption starts first.
@ChiZhangData’s framing points to the missing primitives: identity, trust, scoped delegation, and session-level authorization.
And @13yearoldvc’s piece is a useful reminder that payment rails alone don’t create demand. UX, distribution, merchant readiness, and coordination still decide where adoption begins.
Maybe the real market isn’t “agents paying agents” first — it’s agents coordinating work, verifying outcomes, and then settling value.
When AI agents do the shopping, your most important customer might not be a human at all.
On @jeffwilser's @AiCuriousHQ podcast, our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData unpacked where agentic commerce actually stands today, and why it's arriving faster than most people expect.
▷ The shift is structural: when agents buy on your behalf, businesses start selling to agents, not people. If an agent can't discover you, you're invisible.
▷ It's already a one-way ticket: Shopify first blocked agents, then opened its catalog to them. Visa, Mastercard and Google are all moving in.
▷ The hard part isn't the checkout, it's trust and payments. Kite is the layer that lets your agent pay safely, without ever handing over your credit card.
"Agentic commerce is coming sooner than people think."