Announcement·October 1, 2026
BOGNER is one of the first design customers of ShopAgentic, working with our first team of agents - Catalog Intelligence. BOGNER keeps the shop its team already runs: the Catalog Intelligence squad comes in alongside it ('Add agent power') and takes over the work around product data, getting it to a state where AI agents like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Instinct and Muse can understand it, describe it correctly and recommend it, with GEO handled in one workflow. Each agent in the squad owns one clearly defined job - what goes live is BOGNER's call. On October 8, Benjamin Messner, Director E-Commerce at BOGNER, joins us on stage during our session at 5 pm to share what the first months looked like: how quickly the squad was up and running, what we learned along the way, and what's next. Agentic Commerce is the shift that changes who buys - and A!-Day in Munich on October 8 is the place to see what preparing for it looks like in practice.
CV Summit 2026 Panel·September 30, 2026
Alexander Ringsdorff joined the 'Agents That Transact: Agentic Payments' panel on the Anchor Stage at CV Summit 2026, moderated by Stefan Grasmann (Stefan Grasmann Advisory), alongside Luis Schaubhut (AllUnity), Shyam Duraiswami (Provably) and Benjamin J. Richter (Nexi Group). The panel explored a shift the panelists called genuinely new: it is not how people shop that is changing, it is who is shopping. Product catalogs are being enriched a hundredfold with facts agents actually need, and agents want a shop's payment capabilities laid out as structured data they can act on. A recurring theme was verifiable proof - infrastructure that lets agents show what actually happened in a dispute, an email, a log or a billing record. One guardrail already in use: agents are not handed open wallets; they are authorized for a single transaction at a time, often via one-time virtual cards, with a human still accountable for what they are allowed to spend.
Keynote·September 23, 2026
ShopAgentic co-founder Kai-Thomas Krause delivered the opening keynote on the DMEXCO 2026 Commerce Stage in Cologne. He unpacks the 14 days after Meta launched Muse - the personal AI agent that Amazon blocked while Shopify, PayPal and others opened their doors within days - why in-chat checkout stalled while AI-driven discovery exploded, and why the bot you are blocking may be your best-converting customer. The talk closes with five moves for Monday morning that decide whether your customer's agent can buy from you or from someone else. The full recording is now available on YouTube and LinkedIn.
Announcement·September 1, 2026
Germany's former Federal Minister of Finance and 2022 chair of the G7 finance ministers, Christian Lindner, is joining ShopAgentic as a business angel. The company also announced it is working with AllUnity - the BaFin-licensed joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy - on agent payments via the x402 standard, settled in euro. Lindner's investment underlines the structural shift from human-driven commerce to agentic commerce, where buying decisions are made by AI agents rather than people.
Video (English)·July 14, 2026
By popular request, the full K5 Future Retail NEXT_AI Stage talk is now available dubbed in English. Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause break down what happens when the buyer is no longer a human but an agent, why AI-assisted visitors convert better than classic traffic, and the three measures merchants need to implement now so agents can find them at all.
K5 · Video (in German)·July 1, 2026
Recording of Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause on stage at the K5 Future Retail Conference in Berlin. The talk (in German) outlines the three concrete actions merchants need to take now to stay visible as AI agents take over discovery, comparison and purchase in commerce.
Retailgentic · Podcast·June 11, 2026
Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause join Retailgentic to unpack why agentic commerce changes who buys, not just how — and what their €1.9M pre-seed round means for merchants getting ready for an agent-first world.
Press Release·June 11, 2026
Every major shift in commerce changed how consumers buy. Agentic commerce is the first to change who buys, and ShopAgentic is building the infrastructure for an agentic-first experience.
Announcement·June 2, 2026
Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause will speak at K5 Future Retail in Berlin on Tuesday, June 23, 5:30 PM in the AI Auditorium. The full founding team will be on site June 22–24 for conversations about Agentic Commerce, ACP, UCP, and merchant-owned AI experiences.
Interview · AI:D 59·May 12, 2026
Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause have built one of Europe's leading Magento agencies, founded CouchCommerce, and scaled NewStore to the US. Now they're starting from scratch again with ShopAgentic, a native agentic commerce system. In this interview they explain why - and why replatforming is dead, what HTTP 402 has to do with the future of commerce, and which three steps merchants should take now.
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