Stratosphere

Agentic commerce discovery infrastructure

"Agents are becoming the storefront. If you're not in the agent's catalogs and toolchains, you're not on the shelf—and if your data isn't decision-grade, you don't get picked."

Discovery is the New Control Plane

1.

Agents will own demand

2.

The index becomes the shelf

3.

Ranking becomes distribution

4.

Schema becomes the new SEO

The agent can only act on what it can retrieve and rank, so the index is the shelf and ranking is distribution.

Where We Live in the Value Chain

Intent

Discovery

Evaluation

Checkout

Fulfillment

We make supply eligible, retrievable, and confidently recommendable—upstream of checkout.

Why Agents Change Distribution

Humans browse

Tolerate ambiguity

Visual

Forgiving

Agents satisfy constraints

Demand precision

Logical

Strict

Eligibility > Ranking

You don't just rank lower—you often don't qualify at all.

The Funnel Flips

Old Funnel

Google / Social

Many PDPs

Checkout

Users perform evaluation

New Funnel

Agent Chat

Shortlist

Checkout

Evaluation happens inside the agent

Are you eligible for the right queries, and do you win the shortlist?

Why Now (Last 12–24 Months)

Agent shopping becomes a real UI

Moving from demos to live consumer surfaces

Platforms standardize supply ingestion

Feed specs, tool interfaces, eligibility policies

'Set-and-forget' integrations now break

Drift and freshness requirements turn integration into ongoing operations

The New Distribution Cliff

Missing structure → not eligible

If key attributes and policies aren't structured, you may not qualify

Fragmentation → 10–100 integrations

The hard part is keeping many integrations correct and current

Stale facts → agent gets blamed

Wrong data pushes platforms to demand higher correctness, increasing merchant burden

The Bottleneck: Decision-Grade Supply

Normalization + Canonicalization

Products, variants, offers must be standardized

Attribute Enrichment

Extract the specific, comparable details agents need

Policy Structuring

Turn returns, delivery, payment into machine-readable constraints

Provenance + Monitoring

Attach timestamps and sources so agents can trust decisions

The Solution: A Modular Stack

Supply-Side (GTM Wedge)

Agent-readiness + distribution ops

Legible ROI, straightforward adoption

Demand-Side (Agent API)

Agent-native retrieval (constraint-first, decision-ready)

Reliable, structured supply for builders

Shared Layer (End-State)

Portable publishing + discovery substrate

Publish once, discover everywhere

Participants can adopt individual pieces without committing to the whole network on day one.

GTM Wedge: Agent Readiness for Merchants

ICP: Differentiated brands where constraint-heavy queries matter most

Multi-Destination Publishing

Manage and refresh feeds/tools from one place

Compliance & Drift Monitoring

Stay eligible as platform requirements change

Catalog Upgrade

Structure attributes, variants, policies into decision-grade offers

The Killer App: Diagnostics

"Why don't I show up?" with a prioritized fix list

Demand-Side: Agent-Native Retrieval API

We serve decision-ready candidates, not just links

Constraint-first retrieval

Handles hard constraints + trade-offs

Decision-ready candidates

Canonical products, policy constraints, provenance

Freshness + provenance built-in

Timestamps and sources agents can trust

Low latency, high reliability

Built for agent loops

The Stratosphere Thesis

End-State

Portable discovery: publish once, integrate once

Moat

Distribution ops • Data quality
Agent trust • Network effects

Business Model

1. Supply SaaS
Connectors, publishing, monitoring

2. Demand API
Usage-based retrieval

3. Premium Tiers
SLAs, verification, diagnostics

The Ask

Introductions to:

Differentiated brands
(design partners)

Agent builders
(API customers)