Agentic commerce for
headless commerce.
A headless stack already separates catalog, checkout, and presentation. Agentic commerce adds one more head — the AI shopping agent — and it needs the same things your storefront does: catalog, price, stock, shipping rules, and a checkout to hand off to. Nile connects by API, compiles your catalog for every agent rail, and hands confirmed carts back to your checkout, without touching your storefront or order pipeline.
Why headless teams need this now
Agents are another head
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity consume commerce the way a storefront does — through structured data and a checkout hand-off — but on rails (ACP, UCP, MCP, Agent Skills) that keep changing.
Integrations don't stop
Every rail reads products differently and every spec moves. Owning one integration per assistant is a permanent roadmap tax; compiling once is not.
Checkout must stay yours
A custom checkout, payment orchestration, and OMS are why you went headless. Agentic orders have to land there — not on a third-party checkout.
How it works with a headless stack
Catalog and inventory by API
Nile reads products, variants, price, stock, and shipping rules from your commerce API or PIM on a sync cadence you set. No storefront changes.
One context, every rail
Your catalog and brand context are compiled to UCP (Google's commerce protocol), ACP (ChatGPT's), MCP (tool access), and Agent Skills (distribution) — maintained by Nile as specs evolve.
Agents discover and recommend
Assistants query your compiled catalog agent-to-agent; your rules and approved claims shape every answer.
Confirmed carts return to your checkout
After the shopper confirms, the cart is handed to your checkout and completes there — payment orchestration, OMS, and fulfilment untouched. Nile records the attributed sale.
Integration architecture
Nile is a sidecar to your commerce API: read catalog and inventory in, hand carts and attribution out.
| Layer | What Nile does | What stays yours |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog & PIM | Reads by API or feed; compiles agent-readable context per rail | Source of truth for products and content |
| Inventory & pricing | Continuous sync; recheck at cart and checkout | Inventory service, pricing engine, promotions |
| Agent rails | Publishes and maintains ACP, UCP, MCP, and Agent Skills integrations | Nothing to build or maintain per assistant |
| Checkout | Hands the confirmed cart to your checkout URL or API | Checkout, payment orchestration, OMS, fulfilment |
| Analytics | Attributed sales and per-channel ranking; server-side event API for attribution | Your analytics warehouse and reporting |
What it does for the team
One integration instead of one per rail
Connect once by API; ACP, UCP, MCP, and Agent Skills are compiled and kept current by Nile.
Checkout and OMS untouched
Confirmed carts complete in your checkout; orders flow into your existing pipeline.
Server-side attribution
Report completed sales from your backend so attribution does not depend on a browser pixel.
Rules in one place
Approved claims, exclusions, and regional restrictions enforced on every rail from one configuration.
What Nile touches, and what it does not
The standard guarantees are unchanged for a headless stack — the buyer confirms, price and stock are rechecked, billing is click-through only, assistants are measured in a sandbox; the merchant page lists them. For an engineering team the questions are about access and data flow:
Read-only catalog access
Nile needs to read catalog, price, and inventory from your API, PIM, or feed — nothing more. Storefront, checkout, and OMS code are untouched.
Your checkout, your keys
Payment runs in your checkout with your provider; Nile is not in the payment path and receives only the completed-order event you report.
Server-side attribution
Attributed sales are recorded from the order event your backend sends, so measurement does not depend on a browser pixel or a shared session.
Implementation steps
Connect catalog by API
Point Nile at your commerce API, PIM, or feed; set the sync cadence.
Configure checkout hand-off
Provide the checkout entry point confirmed carts should land on.
Wire server-side attribution
Report completed orders from your backend so attributed sales are recorded without a browser dependency.
Publish and measure
Go live on every rail; track ranking and attributed orders. Commission-only pricing from the first sale.
Questions headless teams ask
Does Nile work with a headless or custom commerce stack?
Yes. Nile connects to your commerce API, PIM, or feed to read catalog, price, stock, and shipping rules, and hands confirmed carts back to your checkout. Storefront, checkout, and OMS are untouched.
How is a confirmed cart handed to a custom checkout?
After the shopper confirms, Nile passes the validated cart to the checkout entry point you expose — a URL or API your stack already has — and the order completes there with your payment orchestration. Nile is a channel, not a party to the transaction.
How does attribution work without a browser pixel?
Your backend reports completed orders to Nile's server-side event API, so attributed sales are recorded even when the purchase path never runs a browser script.
What do our engineers have to build, and what does Nile maintain?
You expose three things: a read of catalog, price, and stock (API, PIM, or feed), a checkout entry point, and a server-side order event. Nile builds and maintains the ACP, UCP, MCP, and Agent Skills outputs and tracks their spec changes; see how the rails are compiled.
We already have an inventory service — how does Nile stay in sync with it?
Nile reads from it on the cadence your API or feed supports and rechecks price and stock at cart and checkout, so your service stays the source of truth and agents never transact against a stale read.
More solutions
The same backend, framed for the team that is asking. Enterprise controls for all of them are on the enterprise page.
Merchants & brands
Make a single store readable and buyable for AI shopping agents.
Marketplaces
Expose multi-seller inventory to agents with seller rules and routing intact.
Retail & multi-brand
Run agentic commerce as a governed channel across banners, regions, and stores.
Product discovery
Give agents the attributes, availability, and fit signals they compare on.
Add the agent as a head.
No setup fee. No retainer. Commission only on completed, attributed sales.
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