When It Is No Longer the Customer Clicking, but Their Agent
August 2026

After the AI answer comes the AI action. Assistants already compare offers, check availability and fill a basket. A human still has to confirm. Drawing up the shortlist is no longer their job.
That means a machine now reads along on every website. The human wants to feel good about you; the machine needs facts it does not have to guess at: price, lead time, availability, returns. If those live only in prose or inside a PDF, the offer drops out of the comparison. It is not rejected. It is skipped.
None of this calls for a rebuild, only for diligence: mark up your key facts, keep them current, quote the same number everywhere. Neglect it and you will not even notice. What goes missing are the enquiries nobody ever made.