⚡ Breaking - Agentic commerce is the next frontier of retail but many retailers are struggling to keep up - Retail Technology Innovation Hub

📰 BREAKING

Retail Technology Innovation Hub reports retailers can't bridge the gap between agentic commerce pilots and production systems.

This isn't a technology problem. It's a decision architecture problem.

The build-versus-buy question gets asked too late—after proof-of-concept funding, after vendor selection, after the compliance team sees the first API call to an external LLM. By then, you're choosing between technical debt and starting over.

At QikAI, we see this pattern across banking, telco, and retail: executives approve pilot budgets without operational resilience frameworks, without agent governance models, without asking who owns the capability when the consultants leave.

Agentic commerce will scale in organizations that design for production from day one. That means compliance architecture before deployment, not compliance theater after launch. That means building internal capability alongside building systems.

The retailers who win won't have the best pilots. They'll have the best answers to "what happens when this breaks at 2am?"

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