MCP is becoming table stakes. But connecting AI to your commerce platform is only half the job. Give an AI agent access to messy, poorly modeled product data, and you've just made the mess more accessible. That's why we've always focused on structured product information, unified APIs, and flexible commerce modeling. #MCP lets AI agents connect, discover, and act. Crystallize gives them the business context to use that connection meaningfully. MCP is the connective layer. Crystallize is the structured foundation underneath it. We've revisited what this means for developers, commerce teams, and anyone building with AI agents. Read the article 👇 crystallize.com/blog/commerc…

UCP. MCP. AP2. ACP. Welcome to e-commerce's latest alphabet soup. 🍜 @Google , @OpenAI , @claudeai , @stripe , and others are busy defining how AI agents will shop for us. Different acronyms. Different approaches. One massive shift: Your next customer might never visit your website. And here's the catch: none of these protocols can fix bad product data. We've updated our Agentic Commerce guide to explain the protocols, the business opportunities, and what e-commerce teams should prepare for today. 👉 crystallize.com/blog/agentic… #AgenticCommerce #AICommerce #eCommerce #Crystallize

📣 Stockholm, here we come! We are thrilled to announce that @CrystallizeAPI and our CEO, @bardfarstad , will be taking the stage at Stora Ehandelsdagen 2026 (powered by @EhandelPunktSe ) on October 21 at the Filadelfia Convention Center in Stockholm. Bård will speak on the future of modern #digitalcommerce and what it takes to build commerce platforms engineered to sell not just to people, but to their AI assistants and agents. Whether you are looking to rethink your product catalog architecture, explore agentic commerce, or simply exchange notes on the future of the Nordic e-commerce ecosystem, we’d love to connect. Grab your ticket and come say hi 👉 lnkd.in/dFhekVJj 📅 October 21st, 2026, Filadelfia Convention Center, Stockholm

Wrapping a 15-year-old monolithic database in a REST API and calling it "composable" is the enterprise commerce equivalent of putting racing stripes on a forklift 😎 If querying a complex product hierarchy takes 14 round-trips and 800ms of latency, good luck getting autonomous shopping agents to parse your catalog, let alone buy from you. We ran head-to-head architectural breakdowns on the leading platforms to cut through the vendor buzzwords. No theoretical feature checklists—just cold looks at query efficiency, data modeling flexibility, and who is actually structured for agentic commerce. 👇 🤖 👇 crystallize.com/compare?utm_…

When your CEO spends weekends stripping a 1966 @alfa_romeo down to bare metal, you start to understand why our architecture looks the way it does 😎 @bardfarstad's point holds: there are no shortcuts through foundational work (in real life or online). In #commerce architecture, skipping the foundation just means you pay for it later in brittle integrations and technical debt. A great feature in @DN_no on craft, patience, and doing things right the first time 🤘 dn.no/d2/mitt-kjoretoy/bil/m…

📢LIVESTREAM ALERT: August 27th, 2026, at 3 PM CET Building an E-Commerce Checkout with Claude AI & Crystallize MCP Last week we showed you how to build a headless storefront with Claude AI and Crystallize MCP. This week, learn how to accelerate e-commerce development by building a custom checkout process using Claude and Crystallize. We'll walk you through setting up cart logic, handling checkout workflows, and leveraging AI assistants to speed up headless commerce builds. What you’ll learn: * Setting up dynamic cart state and item management * Leveraging Claude to write commerce-ready checkout code * Best practices for refining AI-generated code for production Join us live to see what's possible 👇 ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=LbCuZ6M-… 🔷 linkedin.com/events/74979559…

Today, @Lovable builds and hosts @tan_stack Start apps primarily. The framework fits our needs for many reasons, but what made them move from @nextjs ? lovable.dev/blog/how-we-migr… This one reminds us that we need to update our Next vs TanStack post from December 2025 asap 👇 crystallize.com/blog/next-vs…