Agentic Commerce

From Human Shoppers to AI Shoppers: The Next Era of Commerce

Most of the internet is non-human today.

AI agents are actively searching, browsing, and buying online. If your site only speaks to human eyes, you're invisible to the future of commerce. Turn your storefront into an agent-ready powerhouse with Cloudflare.

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Get Discovered by Agents

1

Expose

From SEO to GEO

Make sure AI agents find you first. Move from optimizing for search engines to optimizing for generative engines.

2

Browse

Interact on your terms

Let agents shop your store. Browse your catalog, check inventory, compare prices, with governance and control.

3

Transact

Let agents buy securely

Enable AI agents to complete purchases using trusted payment protocols. Set up the rails for the future of commerce.

From SEO to GEO: Make Sure AI Agents Find You First

Traditional SEO optimizes for search engine crawlers. But LLMs and AI agents discover products differently. They read structured data, query APIs, and crawl markdown. If your catalog isn't agent-readable, you're invisible to the next generation of shoppers. Go from SEO to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization).

Markdown for Agents

Agent Request
curl yourstore.com/products/skis \
  -H "Accept: text/markdown"
HTML → Markdown
Agent Receives
HTTP/2 200
content-type: text/markdown
x-markdown-tokens: 412
content-signal: ai-input=yes, search=yes

## Beginner Ski Packages
### Little Ripper 70
- **Price:** $89.99
- **Ages:** 2-5 · Beginner
- **In stock:** 18 units
store.com/kids/skis
STORE
AI
AI Shopping Assistant
Powered by Cloudflare Agents SDK & MCP Servers
I'm looking for beginner skis for my 3-year-old
I'd recommend the Little Ripper 70 Ski Package. Lightweight with step-in bindings, perfect for first-time skiers ages 2-4.
Little Ripper 70 Ski Package $89.99
In stock · Ages 2-5 · Beginner
Would you also like to see matching helmets and goggles? I can put together a complete starter kit.
Ask me anything...

Let Agents Shop Your Store, On Your Terms

AI agents need to browse your catalog, check inventory, and compare prices. If you block all bots, you block your next customer. If you let everything through, you're exposed. Make sure you're ready to be browsed by LLMs, but with governance.

Allow for Payments. Let Agents Buy Securely.

An agent found your product, browsed your catalog, and the customer wants to buy. Now what? Multiple protocols are emerging. You need a partner who works across all of them.

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Commerce

Beta
Documentation

Monitor how humans, bots, and registered agents browse and check out on your store.

Select agent Select operator + Add filter Last 30 days (EDT)

Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)

Allow verified AI shopping agents to browse and transact on your store. Unregistered agents are automatically blocked.

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Since you enabled TAP, registered agent traffic has increased 186%, with 22,400 agent visits driving $63,900 in GMV this month.

Product opportunity: 3 agents searched for "cloudflare baby onesie" but no matching product was found. View demand signals →

Visitor distribution

Humans Registered agents
Total visits
284,240
Humans
261,840
Registered agents
22,400 +186%
Agent GMV
$63,900 +210%
10,000 7,500 5,000 2,500 0 Apr 20 Apr 27 May 4 May 11

Discovery funnel

4,820
/llms.txt
3,640
Catalog
75.5%
2,180
Views
59.9%
1,280
Checkout
58.7%
928
Purchases
72.5%

Demand signals

What agents are searching for on your store

#1 Cloudflare Hoodie – Black 620 views
#2 Developer T-Shirt – Orange 480 views
#3 Cloudflare Water Bottle 390 views
#4 Cloudflare Notebook 340 views
#5 Long Sleeve – White 270 views

What You Need to Do

A step-by-step checklist to make your store fully agent-ready across the entire commerce journey.

Turn on Markdown for Agents

Serve content agents can actually read. Agents request text/markdown and Cloudflare converts your product pages on the fly — cutting token waste and parsing errors. No re-platforming required.

Expose

Turn on Bot Management

Trust the agents you transact with. Cryptographically confirm who's knocking with Web Bot Auth before money moves. Recognize verified shopping agents acting on behalf of real customers — block the rest.

Browse

Support UCP Protocol — Build an MCP Server

Make your catalog and checkout agent-callable by hosting an MCP server on Cloudflare — no re-platforming. UCP is the language: the standard format for your catalog, cart, and checkout, so any AI agent instantly understands your products. MCP is the phone line: the live, real-time connection agents plug into to read that catalog and facilitate checkouts. AI agents are increasingly adopting MCP as their default for interacting with storefronts.

Expose Browse Transact

Onboard TAP & Accept Agent Payments

Adopt the Trusted Agent Protocol to recognize verified agents acting on behalf of real customers. Let agents pay programmatically over the open x402 protocol — no human checkout flow required. Navigate and onboard to emerging protocols like UCP, AP2, and Agent Pay.

Transact

Build Your Own Storefront Agent

Ship a shopping assistant in minutes with the Agents SDK on Workers — stateful, globally distributed, zero infra. Power it with Workers AI + AI Gateway for model routing, caching, and spend control. Orchestrate reliable multi-step checkouts with Workflows and Durable Objects.

Expose Browse Transact

Is Your Shop Agent-Ready?

Take our quick assessment to evaluate how prepared your commerce site is for the agentic era. Get a personalized readiness score and actionable recommendations.

Take the assessment

Ready to make your store agent-ready?

Talk to our agentic commerce team about your specific setup. Protocol selection, MCP server deployment, bot management tuning, or full TAP implementation.