Thinking from the NXT team on the technology and standards behind AI-native e-commerce — agentic commerce protocols, retrieval architectures, embeddings, and chunking.
A plain-language guide to the protocols letting AI agents browse, check stock, and check out on a retailer's behalf — and why they matter for any merchant thinking about agent-ready commerce.
Read the article →Why pairing a retrieval framework with a workflow orchestrator — rather than picking just one — is the pattern that holds up for a constantly-changing product catalog.
Read the article →What actually differs between embedding providers for e-commerce catalogs, and why treating the embedding model as a swappable interface matters more than picking the "best" one upfront.
Read the article →Two competing approaches to chunking a fast-changing product catalog — a dedicated chunking library versus embeddings that chunk for you — and the trade-offs between them.
Read the article →Why the "MCP for tools, A2A for agents" spl