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The Missing API Layer for AI Agent Commerce

DEV Community·BuyWhere·29 days ago
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AI shopping agents are here. They just cannot find your products. ChatGPT can write code, Claude can analyze documents, and Perplexity can research topics. But when you ask any of them "find me organic bananas under $3 in Singapore" — most will shrug. Not because AI cannot shop. Because products are not structured for AI discovery. The Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About There are 50M+ products listed across Southeast Asian retailers. Almost none of them are machine-readable for AI agents. Traditional shopping feeds were designed for humans: SEO-optimized titles, prose descriptions, inconsistent categorization. An AI agent cannot reliably parse "Fresh Bananas 1kg" from "Bananas - Fresh 1kg" when they come from different sources with different schemas. What is missing is a structured commerce layer — think Stripe for product data. A single API that any AI agent can query and get back clean, normalized, real-time product data with prices, availability, and structured attributes.…

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