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Strategic guides for the agentic-commerce buyer

Vendor-agnostic, technically specific, written for operators who are tired of vendor-supplied PDFs that exist to sell a vendor.

10-page strategic guide10p

The Agentic Commerce 2026 Buyer's Guide

Decode the agentic-commerce vendor landscape. Real protocols, real dates, real questions to ask before you sign anything.

For: VP Ecommerce, Head of Digital, CTO at $10M+ online retailers
What's inside
  • Executive summary: the agent layer is becoming the storefront
  • What is agentic commerce? Concrete examples (not buzzwords)
  • Why now: the 2024-2026 timeline (ACP, AP2, MCP, ChatGPT Shopping, Operator, Claude commerce, Google AI Mode, Stripe Agent Toolkit)
  • What does an agent-ready store look like? The 6-piece checklist
  • The vendor landscape: platform-native, enterprise AI commerce, widget cluster, agent-native
  • Buyer's checklist: 12 questions designed to disqualify black-box vendors
  • Migration path: 4 steps from widget-led to agent-led recommendations
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8-page technical deep-dive8p

MBA vs Bloomreach: a technical buyer's deep-dive

A technical, vendor-agnostic comparison for buyers who've been quoted by Bloomreach and need to defend the decision either way.

For: VP Ecommerce / Head of Personalization at a mid-market brand who has been quoted $40K-$250K/yr by Bloomreach
What's inside
  • TL;DR: when Bloomreach is the right fit and when MBA is
  • Both companies in 200 words each (history, scale, primary buyer)
  • Per-feature comparison table (25 rows: CDP, MCP, substitution, B2B, billing model, more)
  • Pricing math at $1M / $10M / $50M / $100M / $500M GMV
  • Data sovereignty: Loomi training cohorts vs per-merchant mining
  • Decision tree: when to pick each
  • Sample integration code: MCP/REST vs Bloomreach SDK
  • RFP question list if you're evaluating both
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8-page technical deep-dive8p

MBA vs Constructor.com: a technical buyer's deep-dive

A technical, vendor-agnostic comparison for buyers who've been quoted by Constructor.io and need to defend the decision either way.

For: VP eCom / Head of Discovery at a $50M-$500M GMV brand quoted $150K-$300K/yr by Constructor.io
What's inside
  • TL;DR: when Constructor is the right fit and when MBA is
  • Both companies in 200 words each (history, scale, primary buyer)
  • Per-feature comparison table (25 rows: reasoning, MIA, MCP, B2B, billing model, more)
  • The reasoning-vs-rules framing decoded
  • Pricing math at $10M / $50M / $100M / $250M / $500M GMV
  • Decision tree: when to pick each
  • Sample integration code: MCP vs Constructor SDK
  • RFP question list if you're evaluating both
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8-page technical deep-dive8p

MBA vs Algolia Recommend: a technical buyer's deep-dive

Algolia is search-first; MBA is recommendations-first. A technical breakdown of where they overlap, where they don't, and how to run them together.

For: Developer-led mid-market brand using Algolia for search, evaluating Algolia Recommend or considering replacing it
What's inside
  • TL;DR: search-first vs recommendations-first
  • Both products in 200 words each
  • Per-feature comparison table (25 rows: search, MCP, recs, B2B, billing model, more)
  • Algolia's MCP server vs MBA's MCP server, surface by surface
  • Pricing math at five monthly-API-call tiers
  • Decision tree: when to pick each
  • The coexistence pattern: Algolia + MBA in the same stack
  • RFP question list if you're evaluating both
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4-page pricing math4p

MBA vs the widget cluster: pricing math

Run your own numbers against six widget vendors. A worked example with concrete impression-volume math, not vendor-supplied case studies.

For: Shopify Plus operators at mid-market consumer brands getting eaten by per-impression billing
What's inside
  • The impression tax: how widget vendors actually bill
  • A worked example: 500k visits/mo, 120k widget impressions
  • Annualized cost comparison across vendors (Year 1 totals)
  • The ROI argument: per-dollar-of-conversion math + a calculator
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Why these are gated

Each resource is the work of a real strategy engagement, condensed into something you can read in a sitting. The email gate is the only way we find out who's evaluating the agentic-commerce space, which lets us prioritize integrations, pricing, and roadmap. In exchange, we promise no drip campaigns, no resale, and a one-click unsubscribe.

Prefer not to share an email? Most of the same material lives across our public docs, comparison pages, and product overview. You'll have to work harder to assemble it.