Runtype
Agentic Commerce

Launch commerce agents with confidence.

Build AI shopping agents that browse catalogs, recommend products, and guide customers through checkout with approval built into every transaction. Connect your commerce stack once and launch across channels.

Free to build and test. 50 executions/day + $20 in starter credits.

The Opportunity

Commerce is going agentic. Runtype gets you there faster.

AI agents that shop, recommend, and buy on behalf of users represent a $1.7 trillion market by 2030. Building production-ready commerce agents requires purpose-built infrastructure. That is exactly what Runtype provides.

Protocol Complexity

ACP, UCP, AP2, MCP, A2A, TAP. Runtype abstracts the protocol layer so you integrate once and reach every standard your merchants and customers need.

Commerce Complexity

Agentic product search, cart management, checkout flows, and order tracking require purpose-built tooling. Runtype simplifies this.

Customer Confidence

Shoppers want AI assistance but also want oversight. Runtype's human-in-the-loop architecture builds trust by keeping customers informed and in control at every step.

How It Works

The building blocks for production commerce agents.

Runtype gives you pre-built steps, commerce integrations, approval workflows, and multi-channel deployment so you focus on making the best possible shopping experience.

commerce-agent.flow
// Customer: "red sneakers under $120"

vector-search12 products matched
transform-datafilter by price, stock
promptrank + recommend top 3
send-stream"Here are 3 options..."

// Customer: "add the Nike ones to cart"

api-callShopify: add to cart
transform-dataapply discount SUMMER20
approval-gateawaiting confirmation...
✓ approvedcheckout complete
What you get

Vector search across your product catalog for natural-language discovery

Sandboxed code execution for pricing rules, discounts, and cart logic

Per-action approval gates that pause and wait for customer confirmation

MCP + API + webhook connectors to any commerce backend

Scheduled flows for inventory sync, catalog updates, and re-engagement

Connect Any Commerce Backend

Connect to BigCommerce, Shopify, Stripe, WooCommerce, or any commerce platform via custom MCP servers, REST APIs, or webhooks. One agent works across every backend you use.

Human-in-the-Loop Transactions

Configure which actions require approval before execution. Agents pause, present the transaction details, and wait for the customer to confirm, then resume automatically.

Flexible Catalog Interactions

Enable vector search for semantic product discovery. Store catalog preferences in Runtype Records as a fast cache. Read from the FE. Customers describe what they want, your agent finds it.

Agent-to-Agent Delegation

Easily connect specialized agents you've already built via Runtype's A2A protocol support. Get all the value of Runtype Surfaces and Product Evals without a rebuild.

Commerce Workflows

From discovery to checkout. Ready to launch.

Easily build out unique experiences conversationally, in the dashboard, or with the SDK. When a brand requires something unique, you'll be ready to deliver.

Product Discovery

Customers describe what they need. Your agent searches the catalog with vector search, filters by availability and price via transform-data steps, and presents relevant options.

Vector search → Transform-data → Send stream

Cart & Checkout

Agent builds the cart, applies discount logic in sandboxed code, calls the payment API, then pauses for customer approval before charging. No surprises.

API call → Transform-data → Approval gate → API call

Order Management

Customers check order status, request returns, or modify shipments through conversation. Agent fetches data from your commerce backend and takes action on approval.

Fetch URL → Conditional → Approval gate → API call

Catalog Sync

Scheduled flows pull inventory updates from your commerce platform, batch-upsert product records, and regenerate embeddings. Your agent always has current data.

Schedule → Fetch URL → Upsert record → Generate embedding

Built for Everyone

Developers build faster. Everyone gets to market.

For Developers

Custom MCP servers for any commerce platform

Rich flow step library: fetch, transform, search, branch, call & more

Sandboxed JS/TS/Python for pricing and discount logic

Batch operations: upsert 100+ products per call

Vector search across product catalogs

SDK, CLI, and REST API access

For Agencies & Product Teams

Build by telling Runtype the specs

Human-in-the-loop approval gates on any action

Deploy to 10+ channels from one build

Brand-matched chat widget theming

Usage analytics and cost controls

Cross-channel evaluation dashboards

Every Channel

One agent. Every storefront.

Build your commerce agent once. Deploy it to your website, messaging channels, internal tools, and agent-to-agent networks, all from a single build.

Web Chat

Embed a shopping assistant on any storefront.

SMS

Text-based product recommendations and order updates.

Email

AI-drafted product digests and order confirmations.

API

Headless commerce agent for mobile apps and custom UIs.

Webhooks

Trigger agents from Shopify events, payment callbacks, inventory alerts.

Slack

Internal agents for merchandising and inventory ops teams.

MCP

Expose your commerce agent to Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

A2A

Let other agents delegate purchasing tasks to yours.

Open Standard

UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)

Runtype supports UCP, the open standard co-developed by Google and Shopify for AI agents to discover products, manage carts, and transact with merchants. Explore our open-source example server.

Agentic Commerce

Make commerce agentic. Today.

Connect any commerce backend via MCP or API
Control all aspects of the look and feel
Launch everywhere shoppers actively engage
Free to build and test