Commerce infrastructure · Pre-launch 2026

The protocol layer
for agentic commerce.

Axionik lets AI agents complete purchases directly with the brands that make the product — without marketplaces in the middle, without walled gardens, without the brand forfeiting its margin or its customer.

The problem

Brands are trapped in a marketplace economy — and the next channel is arriving without infrastructure.

The web's commerce rails were built for humans clicking through marketplaces. Those rails are starting to break under a new user: the agent. Brands are about to lose a second channel the same way they lost the first — unless the layer beneath gets built.

25–40%
of gross margin lost to marketplace commissions on every digital sale.
0%
of the customer relationship retained after a marketplace transaction completes.
12–18
month window before agent-commerce rails are defined — and someone owns the standard.
The protocol

Intent-Based Protocol Activation.
One integration. Any agent. Any brand.

IBPA is a neutral infrastructure layer — agent-agnostic and merchant-agnostic. A brand integrates once. Any compliant agent can then resolve intent, match a catalog, verify inventory, and authorize payment in a single agent-native flow.

01   Intent
User talks to their agent
"Reorder my running shoes." The agent captures intent in natural language — no storefront, no URL, no funnel.
→
02   IBPA
Axionik resolves
Match to the brand's catalog. Verify inventory. Authorize payment through agent-native rails. All under 2 seconds.
→
03   Commerce
Brand fulfils directly
Transaction lands on the brand's order system. Customer data stays with the brand. No marketplace tax.
Positioning

Everyone else is building a walled garden.
We're building the neutral rail.

The agent-commerce stack is being defined right now — by hyperscalers and payment networks, each locking merchants into a single agent or a single storefront. None of them is building what merchants actually need: a protocol they own a seat at.

Walled-garden approaches
Pick one agent, or pick one storefront.
Single-agent plugins force merchants to bet on one platform. Merchant-app stores limit transactions to one commerce backend. Both create lock-in, neither solves the underlying protocol problem.
Axionik
Any agent. Any catalog. One protocol.
Brands integrate once via IBPA and transact across every compliant agent — today's and tomorrow's. We don't take a cut of GMV. Merchants keep margin, own data, and retain the customer relationship.
Why now
The agent-commerce stack is being defined in the next eighteen months. Whoever builds the neutral protocol wins the category — the way Stripe won when payments went API-first.
— Axionik Founding Thesis, 2026
Team

Built by operators who have lived this problem.

A decade inside enterprise retail tech meets an SAP BTP architect who builds agents natively across every major GPT platform. The combination this problem demands is rare — and it's what we have.

Founder & CEO
Enterprise retail operator
Led SAP retail implementations across seventeen countries. Former CTO at a multi-country apparel retailer, where marketplace economics became a personal obsession. Previous venture validated with a global fashion brand before pivoting on the lesson that became the IBPA thesis: merchants don't need another app. They need a protocol.
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Co-founder & CTO
AI-native systems architect
SAP BTP architect with deep full-stack engineering depth. Has built production AI agents natively across every major GPT platform — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. The rare combination of enterprise integration depth and AI-native engineering this problem demands.
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Connect

The protocol is being built now.
Get in early.

We're working closely with a small number of design-partner brands and a tight circle of pre-seed investors. Pick the track that fits.

For Brands
Join the merchant waitlist
For brands with direct-to-consumer ambition who want to own the agent channel before it's owned by someone else.
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For Investors
Request the deck
Currently closing a $1M pre-seed SAFE. Deck, technical blueprint, and product roadmap available on request.
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