How AI Shopping Agents Are Changing the Future of ecommerce 

Jacqueline Vail

Jacqueline Vail

Marketing Manager

The age of agentic commerce is here and it’s transforming how shoppers discover and buy products. Our latest sponsored report with Digital Commerce 360 reveals how quickly AI agents are reshaping ecommerce, soon becoming the primary shoppers of the future. 

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Top 10 Report Insights on Agentic Commerce: 

  1. Traffic from GenAI tools to US retail sites grew 3,300% year over year 
  2. 49% of respondents use AI tools at least once per month, and the same percentage are open to letting AI search for products and make purchases for them 
  3. Longer, natural language searches are replacing keyword-based searches 
  4. Agentic Commerce shortens shopper’s path from initial research to final purchase 
  5. AI agents are also optimizing B2B commerce by automating operations and freeing teams up for high-value work 
  6. Personalization at scale is an expectation in both B2B and B2C markets 
  7. Customers are expecting more digital and self-service tools 
  8. 27% of consumers trust AI-powered recommendations more than influencers (24%) 
  9. The buyer of the future won’t be the consumer, but their algorithm. 
  10. Platforms that optimize backend infrastructures for AI agents will be the ones that win. 

How can you start future-proofing your ecommerce business? 

Consumers are frustrated that traditional search fails to understand the intention behind their queries. Agentic commerce uses the power of conversational AI to meet these growing expectations. But future-proofing your business means optimizing both the customer-facing experience and backend systems to be agent-friendly. In this new era, companies need to consider the human and agent experience equally as AI agent will also begin to interact with ecommerce sites. 

How does Cimulate enable agentic commerce? 

Cimulate is built for an agentic commerce future by helping our customers remove their data disadvantage. CommerceGPT is an AI-native engine, not just an add on to existing workflows. By combining product, customer behavior, and simulated shopping behavior data, we power conversational co-pilots that provide contextually relevant search results and immersive experiences. Our MCP server is built for agent-to-agent commerce and gives agents responses to prompts in their language. We understand the importance of enabling conversational, intent driven search experiences to give shoppers what they truly want. 

Curious how Cimulate can help your business thrive in the agentic commerce era? Talk to us today.