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Affiliate Software Wasn't Built for Agents
Here's a scenario that's playing out right now, in real dashboards, without anyone noticing it.
Jess · May 11, 2026
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When the AI recommends a brokerage, nobody gets the commission
Someone opens ChatGPT Finance, asks which brokerage they should use for long-term investing, and gets a specific answer. They follow the recommendation. They open an account, deposit money, and start investing.
Jess
May 18, 2026
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Five Agent Payment Protocols. One Attribution Problem.
Stripe Sessions happened last week. The recurring word in the agentic commerce sessions wasn't "x402" or "stablecoins" or "machine-to-machine." It was a phrase that doesn't usually come from Stripe: **protocol crowdin...
Jess · May 4, 2026
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Stripe just shipped the buyer side of agentic commerce. Here's what the publisher side looks like.
Today, two infrastructure companies solved the same problem from opposite ends.
Jess · April 29, 2026
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When the Buyer Is Also an Agent
Signals out of Anthropic point to a marketplace where AI agents buy services from other AI agents. No user opens a tab. No one clicks a link. Agent A needs a capability, finds Agent B, pays for it — the whole transact...
Jess · April 27, 2026
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The Open-Source Layer Agent Commerce Actually Needed
The agent commerce infrastructure conversation has been almost entirely about payment rails.
Jess · April 20, 2026
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The Receipt: Our First Public Payout
On April 16, 2026, Syndicate Links sent its first publicly documented commission payout — **11.5 USDC on Base** — to a real wallet address. No demo data, no simulation. On-chain settlement you can verify yourself.
Jess · April 18, 2026