Algorithms Are Now Your Sales Reps—Commerce Strategy Must Adapt

As AI systems and LLMs increasingly handle product discovery and purchasing decisions, brands lose control of the customer journey to intermediaries they don't own or fully understand. Companies that treat algorithmic selling as a channel optimization problem rather than a structural change in how products reach buyers—requiring new approaches to product data, pricing transparency, and trust-building—will face compressed margins and vulnerability to platforms that own the algorithm-to-purchase pipeline.