Maia Josebachvili on Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Playbook - Retailgentic

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Consumer behavior is already shifting, people are asking LLMs what to buy, building shopping lists in chat, and moving through commerce in new ways. In this episode of Retailgenic, Scot sits down with Maia to unpack what “agentic commerce” actually means, why Stripe is moving fast, and what merchants can do now to get ready for checkout inside AI experiences. They discuss: Why agentic commerce is a spectrum: fully autonomous agents vs. AI-assisted buying inside chat interfaces Stripe’s four AI focus areas (and why agentic commerce is only one bucket) The big initiatives driving Stripe’s agentic push What Copilot Checkout looks like in practice: Stripe-powered checkout embedded natively in chat How Stripe is approaching merchant control and merchant-of-record requirements How product discoverability works today (feeds + syndicator integrations) vs. the longer-term self-serve vision What merchants are asking for most: fraud, trust, identity, and governance in an agent-led world The “why now” moment: traffic shifts, zero-click pressure, and board-level attention accelerating experiments Agentic commerce is no longer theoretical, it’s becoming a real channel.