RRetailAgentOS
For small merchants and independent retailers

Make your store visible
to AI shopping agents.

AI agents are already recommending products, quoting prices, and routing buyers to checkout. Most small merchants are invisible to them — not because their products are wrong, but because their store rules are unreadable to machines.

Why agents skip your store

It is not about your products. It is about whether agents can understand your rules.

Your catalog is invisible to agents

AI shopping assistants browse and recommend products. If your store has no machine-readable profile, they skip you entirely — even if you sell exactly what a buyer is looking for.

Agents quote the wrong price

Your pricing depends on who's asking — member tiers, bulk orders, weekly promos. An agent that can't read those rules quotes incorrectly or not at all.

Unqualified buyers reach checkout

Wholesale listings, age-restricted products, regulated goods, local-delivery-only items — agents don't know your rules, so they route buyers into dead ends. For alcohol, cannabis, or pharmacy items, that's not just a bad experience; it's a compliance problem.

Promos and loyalty are invisible

Your sale prices, mix-and-match deals, and loyalty points exist — agents just can't see them at browse time. A gold member gets quoted the same price as a guest. A loyal customer earns nothing because the agent never knew to ask.

How RetailAgentOS fixes it

Declare your rules once. Let agents do the rest.

01

Publish your store rules

Pricing tiers, buyer eligibility, fulfilment zones, promotions — declared once in a structured, machine-readable profile.

02

Agents understand your store

Any AI shopping agent evaluates your rules against the buyer's context — who they are, where they are, what they need.

03

Correct outcomes before checkout

Right products to the right buyers at the right price. No dead-end orders, no mis-quoted wholesale tiers, no blocked fulfilment.

Is your store legible to AI agents?

Six checks that determine whether an AI shopping agent can represent your store correctly — and what breaks when they can't. Each maps to a machine-readable rule layer your store needs.

VisibilityRAOS-0001 eligibility

Can agents tell which products a given buyer should or shouldn't see?

Without it: Wholesale items appear to guest buyers — agent surfaces listings the buyer cannot purchase.

Contextual priceRAOS-0002 contextual pricing

Is the right price exposed before cart, per buyer and quantity?

Without it: Agent quotes list price to a wholesale member — buyer is surprised at checkout.

Buyer qualificationRAOS-0001 / RAOS-0002

Are buyer requirements (wholesale account, resale cert, MOQ) machine-readable?

Without it: Cart is built below MOQ — checkout fails with a cryptic validation error.

Fulfilment feasibilityRAOS-0003 fulfillment

Are mode and region restrictions surfaced at catalog time, not checkout?

Without it: Agent confirms shipping to Hawaii for a locally-delivered item — buyer abandoned at checkout.

Promotions & stackingRAOS-0006 promo pricing

Do active offers surface at browse time, with deterministic stacking rules?

Without it: Weekly sale never factors into the recommendation — or agent stacks offers that shouldn't combine, and the effective price falls below cost.

Loyalty & member valueRAOS-0009 loyalty

Can agents show a buyer how many points they'd earn, and whether their tier changes the price — before checkout?

Without it: Loyalty is invisible at browse time. The agent quotes the wrong price for a gold member, or misses the "link account to earn points" prompt that would have converted the sale.

Delivery & age restrictionsRAOS-0011 restricted goods

For regulated goods (alcohol, cannabis, pharmacy) — are geo eligibility and age requirements machine-readable before cart?

Without it: Agent routes a buyer in a restricted state to checkout for an item that can't ship there. Or routes an underage buyer to a cannabis checkout. Legal exposure and abandoned carts.

ExplainabilityAll RAOS specs (reason codes)

When the agent blocks a product or changes a price, can it explain why?

Without it: Merchant and buyer have no visibility into why an item was blocked or a price changed — trust erodes.

Building this in the open

RetailAgentOS is an independent project I'm working through on my own time, nights and weekends — published as it's built. Follow the work, or compare notes if you run a store.

Building in public

Follow the build

An independent project, published as it's built. See what ships each week, try the live demo, and weigh in on the open questions.