The Agentic Commerce Report is a citation-anchored weekly publication. Every claim links to a primary source. Every event is scored before it appears. Drafts are AI-generated and reviewed by the editor against the source material before publication. The rules below are the standards we hold each issue to.
Sources
A primary source is one of: a company press release or official blog post, a regulatory filing or official ruling, an academic paper, an official standards-body publication (RFC, working-group note, foundation announcement), or a court document. Earnings transcripts, investor day decks, and conference keynote recordings count when they contain on-the-record statements from named executives.
We do not cite secondary reporting (news articles about a primary source, analyst commentary, blog summaries) unless the original source is paywalled, deleted, or otherwise unavailable. When a secondary source is cited, the issue notes that the primary was unavailable and links to the secondary explicitly.
Social-media posts, podcast clips, and screenshots without a verifiable source are not cited.
Importance scoring
Every event is scored on a 1–5 importance scale before it enters the register:
- 5 — alters the agentic-commerce landscape across multiple companies or geographies (a new federation-level standard, a binding regulatory ruling, a cross-vendor protocol launch).
- 4 — material commercial or technical milestone for a major actor (a payment network's first agent-pay deployment in a region, a hyperscaler's first agent-checkout pilot at scale).
- 3 — meaningful pilot or specification step (a single retailer going live with agentic checkout, an open-source release of a draft spec).
- 2 — incremental but on-narrative (a vendor announcing partner-program expansion, a working group formally chartering).
- 1 — mention only; not surfaced in the weekly summary.
Only events scoring 2 or higher appear in the weekly summary. Events scoring 1 are kept in the underlying dataset for completeness but not surfaced editorially. The threshold is calibrated to surface developments that move the field, not every product update.
Voice and scope
The publication does not publish opinion, forecasts, or readiness verdicts. Banned phrasing includes:
- Opinion verbs: think, believe, suggest, recommend, should, ought, likely, seems.
- Readiness verdicts: ready, mature, stalled, behind, ahead.
- Comparative editorialising: bigger than, more important than, the most significant.
Every claim cites an event. Every event cites a source. Sentences declare what was said or done, not what it might mean. Comparisons are factual (counts, dates, named actors) rather than evaluative.
Cadence
Issues publish every Sunday at 18:00 UTC. The current week's events accumulate Monday through Sunday; the issue summarises that week and lands at the cadence boundary. The archive is back-dated to September 2025 to establish the historical baseline; the publication launched publicly on 2 May 2026.
An issue may be delayed by a few hours if a high-importance event lands late on Sunday and warrants inclusion. Delays are noted in the issue's published time. Issues are not pre-published; the public time matches the editorial commit.
AI-pipeline disclosure
Drafts are written by an automated pipeline running on a weekly schedule. The pipeline ingests primary sources from a curated feed list, scores importance, and synthesises the weekly summary. The editor reviews the draft against the cited sources before publication, with particular attention to: factual accuracy, voice-rule compliance, importance threshold, and citation integrity.
The pipeline does not generate sources, dates, or quotes; those are extracted verbatim from the primary material. When a generated claim cannot be verified against the cited source, the claim is rewritten or removed before publication.
Models and prompt structure may change as tooling evolves. The disclosure that drafts are AI-generated is permanent and applies to every issue.
Corrections
Substantive corrections — factual errors that change the meaning of a passage, mis-attributed quotes, or wrong dates — are appended to the affected issue with a dated note (Corrected: YYYY-MM-DD — original text said X; correct text says Y). The original issue's commit history preserves the change.
Routine fixes (typos, broken links, formatting) are made silently without a note.
Spotted an error? Email aimenbenfika@gmail.com with the issue URL and the correction.
Conflicts of interest
The editor is not currently employed by, advising, or holding equity in any of the companies covered by the publication. If a conflict develops in the future, the affected issue will carry a disclosure block at the top of the relevant section and the conflict will be listed here.
The publication does not accept advertising, sponsored content, or pay-for-coverage. It does not run paid placements in summaries, the timeline, or topic pages.
Licensing and reuse
Editorial content is original synthesis. Quotation and citation for AI-search responses, academic work, and journalistic reuse is permitted provided the publication name and issue number are cited.
The structured event dataset is published at /dataset/events/ under CC BY-NC 4.0: attribution required, non-commercial use only.
Reproduction of editorial content for AI training without explicit permission is not authorised. Inquiries about commercial reuse: aimenbenfika@gmail.com.