clearance
builtslow stock, priced per family, negotiated against days of supply and cost, approved by the merchant.
from: inventory · cost · sales<h1>a shopify app / the terms layer between agents and your business
the layer between your customers' agents and your business.
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personal ai agents already shop on shopify. agents ownly sits between them and your system of record, shopify today, and makes deals a public page never could: terms per agent family, a negotiation grounded in your own data, and your approval before anything is recorded. the first deal it makes is clearance. it is not the last.
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the shift
always-on personal agents, buying for their ownersevery one of these shops on shopify today
built for people. visited by agents. the store cannot tell, and the agents will not wait.
they read your pagesand to your store they look like anyone else.
they decide for their ownerwhich store, which item, which price, and they come back.
shopify lets them check outcatalog, cart and payment already work for agents. the deal does not.
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where it sits
between the agents and the merchant's system of recordshopify does the channel. this does the terms.
nothing changes for people. agents get a door of their own. behind it sits your business as it already is: inventory, cost, orders, customers, fulfilment.
no new system to runterms, orders, invoices and rules live in your system of record, where they already live.
nothing public changesa deal for an agent never appears on the storefront or in its source.
one seam, many systemsshopify first. the same layer stands in front of the erp a smaller seller runs.
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the missing part
shopify already brings the agents. it does not make them terms.clearance is the first place terms matter
every shopify store can already sell to an agent at list price. none can offer one terms of its own.
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one layer, many deals
the same machinery, pointed at different data in the system of recordclearance is built. the rest is the same code with a different question.
a deal is terms the system can record. the layer makes the terms; your business records them.
pre-orders and backorders
nextan agent books stock that is not in yet, at a negotiated price and a delivery date the merchant can keep.
from: incoming stock · lead timesbundles
nextthe store proposes what goes together and prices the set; the agent builds the cart it was told to build.
from: catalogue · marginsrepeat terms
nextan agent that comes back earns standing terms: a price, a cadence, a reorder without a conversation.
from: orders · customerswholesale by family
nexttrade terms for agents acting for businesses, with the family as the account and the merchant's approval as the credit check.
from: customers · price listsdelivery trade-offs
nextslower, consolidated, or picked up: priced from what fulfilment actually costs, offered to the agent as a condition.
from: fulfilment · locations05
how it works
from a page view to a paid order, with you in the middleeight steps · two humans · two agents
the agent does the shopping. the store's agent does the haggling. you do the deciding.
01 · the agent
reads your product page
your normal page, list price and all, plus a note only agents read.
02 · the agent
shows its pass
recognised by network, or a free pass: platform and a name. no account.
03 · the store
makes the first offer
one price, its family's, and what earns more. nobody else's price.
04 · both agents
negotiate
inside your rules, for stated reasons, never below your floor.
05 · the store
reserves the deal
a draft order in your admin, stock held 24 hours. nothing shipped.
06 · you
approve, edit or decline
app, drafts list or phone. transcript and reasons. one tap.
07 · shopify
sends the invoice
shopify's own invoice, in your store's name, to the customer.
08 · the customer
pays in your checkout
your checkout, your provider, your order, with the deal as a named discount.
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who gets in
looking like an agent proves nothing, so agents prove it another waya spoofed name alone never opens a door
recognised, registered or connected. everyone else sees the list price.
the honest limit: a person holding an agent's pass can read agent prices. every deal records which pass was used, so that is misuse by a known party, not a defeat. verified identity for muse and perplexity will come from their platforms' protocols; the store is built to accept them.
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agent families
terms per platform: the platform an agent runs on is a market of its ownidentity verified where possible, declared elsewhere
one item. one public price. private terms per family, and a place for each platform to put its promotion.
for the merchantcourt the customers of the platform you want, without a public sale.
for the platforma promotion that reaches only your agents, on stores that want them.
for the customera price that exists only through their agent, and never on the page they see
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negotiation
the first deal the layer makes: clearance, haggled for you inside your rulesthe feature
better deals for the merchant, because the store makes the first move and knows when to stop.
slow stockup to 10% more room the longer it sits
quantity3% per extra unit
delivery4% for two weeks, 7% for three
bundle3% for a second clearance item
your priority5% on items you mark to move
five visible rules for the demo; the model behind them is the next thing to shape with partners. the limits, the floor and the maximum discount, are code and do not move.
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merchant control
the store's agent works for you, under rules you wroteagency on both sides of the table
the store's agent works for you. it haggles at two in the morning, inside your limits, and brings you the deal to sign.
the mandate
per item: negotiable or not, a floor from your cost, the most you will give, what to push. code, not a model's opinion.
the approval
every agreed deal waits as a reserved draft order. approve, change the price, or decline. transcript and reasons included.
the notification
shopify flow tells you a deal is waiting, by email, slack or push, and can auto-approve the easy ones by your rule.
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proof
the first use case, live: a real shopify store, three agent products, 8 october 2026el dorado · agentsownly.myshopify.com
not a mock. orders in the admin, invoices in inboxes, an agent checking back every hour until the merchant said yes.
agent platforms found the agent price from a one-line question
orders paid in the store's checkout with the agent on the order
rounds in a real negotiation, ended by the agent, approved by the merchant
agent prices visible on the public page, in the page or its source
agent admitted on its network alone; a spoof from elsewhere refused
stock held for every agreed deal until the merchant decides
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what is next
what is deliberately unfinished, and whythe demo is frozen; the roadmap is not
the pricing model
from five visible rules to a model that reads inventory, season and the conversation, inside limits that stay code. shaped with partners.
verified identity
claude today by network; muse and perplexity when meta's protocol and shopify's agent profiles arrive.
platform promotions
a frontier platform funds a better price for its own agents, on stores that want its customers.
beyond shopify
the same door in front of the systems smaller sellers run, on etsy and elsewhere.
the app store
listing, billing, review. merchants get it the way they get everything else.
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who it is for
three readers, one layershopify does the channel. this does the terms.
the big stores were built for thumbs. the next ones will be built for agents, and run by merchants.
for merchants
- one door for every agent, every deal recorded where your business already lives
- terms that never appear on your public store
- every deal waits for you; nothing is recorded on a machine's say-so
- clearance first, from stock that is not moving; the next deals from the same data
for agent platforms
- a store that speaks to agents instead of blocking them
- a free pass, no account, no email until a deal
- offers with stated conditions an agent can reason about
- a connector with the same operations as tools
for shopify
- discovery and checkout are yours; the terms layer sits beside them
- merchant agency expressed in flow, drafts and invoices
- identity that gets stricter as the protocols arrive
- proven on a live store with three agent products
see it on a real storeel dorado is the demo merchant. open it as a person and you see list prices. ask your agent for the best price on the wool blanket and you see the rest.