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AI Agents at Checkout: Automation, Authenticity, and the Next Wave of Payments
What happens when AI agents start shopping and paying on our behalf—while merchants still have to trust the identity behind every transaction? In this special deep dive with Kevin Woodward of Digital Transactions (https://www.digitaltransactions.net/), hosted by Christopher Dryden, Esq., and Jeremy Stock, we unpack the fast-arriving tension between automation and authenticity: from AI-written copy and agentic commerce to the real-world controls that keep risk, compliance, and customer experience aligned.
Why this matters now
Agentic commerce is moving from demo to deployment. Real-time rails are scaling. State regulators are experimenting. And card-brand oversight, fraud, and chargebacks haven’t taken a day off. If you build, sell, underwrite, or operate in payments, this episode is a field guide to what’s changing—and what you can do about it.
What we cover (and what you’ll take back to your team)
AI voice vs. original signal: Where AI helps (summarization, QA, triage) and where it corrodes credibility—and how to keep content independent and useful.
Underwriting is still human: Faster KYC/KYB and onboarding at the edges—but real risk decisions hinge on verifying real people and real businesses.
VAMP, real-time, and instant payout rails: What FedNow, RTP, Visa Direct, and Mastercard Send mean for settlement, refunds, and dispute windows—and where the operational debt hides.
Agentic commerce trust stack: If a bot buys, who is liable? We dig into identity, consent, and verification, and discuss early moves that could make bot-to-merchant transactions acceptable at scale.
Checkout friction vs. choice overload: How to remove clicks without losing safeguards; practical patterns to reduce false declines while maintaining SCA/2FA integrity.
Regulation by patchwork: State-by-state experiments on interchange and pricing; why chargebacks still drain margins; where crypto and stablecoins are inching toward compliant, useful flows.
Differentiating in a commoditized market: Vertical expertise, better UX, richer data, and trustworthy support as the new moat when processing looks the same from the outside.
Modernizing the stack: Consolidating legacy platforms into API-first architectures and tapping open banking/pay-by-bank for recurring and bill-pay experiences that actually convert.
Who should watch/listen
ISOs, PayFacs, acquirers, processors, PSPs, risk and compliance leaders, vertical SaaS and marketplace operators, and anybody tasked with reducing fraud, raising approval rates, and keeping regulators calm.
Practical next steps you can implement this quarter
Stand up a bot-aware identity policy (consent logging, device fingerprinting, challenge flows) before agent traffic hits checkout.
Measure VAMP-relevant ratios and dispute signals per MID; align refund and settlement timing to new rails to blunt chargeback exposure.
Use AI where it’s defensible: document classification, web-footprint scanning, and attrition prediction—while keeping humans in the loop for final decisions.
Reduce choice overload at checkout; test pay-by-bank for bill pay and subscription use cases where it improves completion and lowers cost.
If this helps you see around the corner on agentic commerce and the controls it demands, subscribe and share with your ops, risk, and product teams—and tell us which piece you want us to unpack next.
**Matters discussed are all opinions and do not constitute legal advice. All events or likeness to real people and events is a coincidence.**
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Chapters

1. Cold Open: AI Agents In Commerce (00:00:00)

2. Welcome And Show Framing (00:00:52)

3. AI’s Role In Writing And Originality (00:01:14)

4. Speed Versus Quality In Legal Drafting (00:05:37)

5. Underwriting People, Not Just Data (00:06:40)

6. Tech Outpacing Human Judgment (00:08:13)

7. Payments Hot List: VAMP And RTP (00:09:28)

8. Checkout Friction And Too Many Options (00:10:23)

9. Agentic Commerce And Trust (00:11:37)

10. Regulation Patchwork And State Actions (00:12:43)

11. Chargebacks, Crypto, And Stablecoins (00:14:46)

12. Differentiation Amid Commoditized Processing (00:16:02)

13. Legacy Platforms And Modernization (00:17:00)

14. Open Banking And Pay By Bank (00:17:16)

15. How Digital Transactions Picks Stories (00:18:07)

16. What Agentic Commerce Looks Like (00:19:03)

17. Safety, Payments Protocols, And Buy Buttons (00:20:10)

18. Final Thoughts And How To Reach Kevin (00:21:12)

19. Closing And Resources (00:23:15)

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