ChatGPT Just Made Virtual Try-On Table Stakes. It Also Proved Why Merchants Need Their Own.
Bogdon Costescu – October 2, 2026
OpenAI has added virtual try-on to ChatGPT shopping.
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The Agentic Pyramid: Where the Hell Do You Actually Sit?
Joe Monastiero – September 18, 2026
For longer than I'd like to admit, I told the wrong story about my company.
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Anthropic Just Shipped the Commerce Agent Blueprint. For discoverGPT, That’s the Validation We’ve Been Waiting For.
Joe Monastiero – September 4, 2026
Claude Just Made Agentic Commerce Real. Here's Why We're Already Built for It.
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Keyword search just died, and five CEOs are the proof.
Joe Monastiero – August 14, 2026
The five people who just confirmed it, on the record.
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The Need for Speed. (AKA – Your commerce search is broken)
Joe Monastiero – August 6, 2026
Why TTD, not relevance alone, is the metric that decides who gets the sale.
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What’s the next “big thing” in agentic commerce? It’s probably not what you think.
Joe Monastiero – July 30, 2026
The answer is color. And the data it produces.
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Agentic commerce’s dirty little secret.
Joe Monastiero – July 24, 2026
It seems like every other conversation on LinkedIn these days revolves around agentic commerce, right?
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Commerce discovery is being rebuilt around AI. Here’s the developer platform built for it.
Joe Monastiero – July 20, 2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁
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Agentic commerce is not a channel shift. It is a data quality reckoning.
Joe Monastiero – July 17, 2026
Seven days of commerce news produced a convergent signal that is easy to misread. Retailers are racing toward agentic storefronts,...
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Wall Street just priced agentic commerce into Shopify twice in one week.
Joe Monastiero – July 10, 2026
Within a single week, both Bank of America and Stifel upgraded Shopify to Buy, with both citing agentic commerce as...
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The Catalog Is the Moat: Why Agentic Commerce Rewards Data-Ready
Joe Monastiero – June 26, 2026
Seven days of industry news converged on a single structural claim: the merchants who win in the agentic commerce era...
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Alphabet Soup: The Agentic Commerce Protocol Wars
Joe Monastiero – June 18, 2026
Pick up almost any AI commerce write-up from the last six months and you will see the same conversation, looped:...
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Five Virtual Try-On Launches In Six Months Is A Pattern
Joe Monastiero – June 8, 2026
Looks like VTO is finally moving out of the Playground.
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Thank You, Amazon
Joe Monastiero – May 29, 2026
"Are you kidding me? It's the best thing that could have happened to 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐀𝐈. Thank you, Jeff!"
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What I Built While Waiting on Shopify
Joe Monastiero – May 21, 2026
The Upside of the Downside.
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ChatGPT Is the Answer Agent. shopperGPT Is the Discovery Agent. And It’s Live.
Joe Monastiero – May 15, 2026
As of today, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐆𝐏𝐓 is in the Shopify App Store. Plans start at $39 with a 7-day free trial.
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The Commerce Search Problem Nobody Is Talking About — And the Store That Just Solved It
Joe Monastiero – April 27, 2026
A new age of commerce search and discovery starts today. Here's what it looks like - with 8,000 real products,...
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Shopify Founding Partners Wanted: Be Among the First Merchants to Replace Keyword Search With AI Discovery
Joe Monastiero – April 20, 2026
5 slots. 90 days free. White-glove setup. Zero risk. Here's what that actually means — and why we're doing it.
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The AI Discovery Gap Is Widening. Most Merchants Are on the Wrong Side.
Joe Monastiero – April 1, 2026
ChatGPT Doesn't Know You Exist
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