Agent commerce research
Free, dated, citable research on agent commerce readiness from ARC's live HTTP checks: by commerce platform, by market, by category, and return and shipping policy clarity. CC-BY 4.0 with JSON and CSV downloads.
DATA AS OF 11 OCT 2026, 14:41 UTC · n = 3,309 STORES CHECKED · 3,325 OBSERVED
Across checked stores: valid UCP profile 48.3% (1598 of 3309); storefront MCP answered 45.9% (1519 of 3309); return policy findable 65% (1769 of 2721).
BY PLATFORM
Agent readiness by commerce platform
How ready stores on Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and others are for AI shopping agents: UCP, MCP, WebMCP, checkout links, product data, policies and robots.txt, from ARC's free HTTP checks.
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BY MARKET
Agent readiness by market
Agent commerce readiness of stores in the US, UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe, Canada and Australia: UCP, MCP, WebMCP, checkout links, product data, policies and robots.txt, from ARC's free HTTP checks.
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BY CATEGORY
Agent readiness by store category
Agent commerce readiness by retail category (apparel, beauty, home, electronics and more): UCP, MCP, WebMCP, checkout links, product data, policies and robots.txt, from ARC's free HTTP checks.
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POLICY CLARITY
Return and shipping policy clarity for AI agents
Can an AI shopping agent find a store's return and shipping policy, and is it in machine-readable structured data? Rates, sources and stated return windows by category, from ARC's free HTTP checks.
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All pages: charts, n per group, evidence labels, a methodology link, a CC-BY 4.0 cite block and JSON/CSV downloads. Index as JSON: /api/insights/index.json. Raw rows: open dataset.