Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about signalCommerce, protocol intelligence, and getting discovered by autonomous AI agents

signalCommerce is the protocol intelligence layer for agentic commerce, built by OrcaQubits. It provides real-time agent attribution, conversion insights, and protocol diagnostics so merchants can see which AI agents discover their store, why some fail, and how to optimize the entire agent commerce funnel—from UCP discovery through ACP checkout.

UCP is an open standard co-developed by Google and Shopify to make e-commerce stores accessible to autonomous AI agents. It's endorsed by 20+ industry partners including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. UCP defines how agents discover and browse stores.

ACP handles the transactional side of agent commerce—add to cart, checkout, and payment completion. Together with UCP, it covers the full agent commerce funnel from discovery through purchase confirmation.

UCP supports three interaction models: (1) Agent-to-site—AI agents browse your store directly, (2) Agent-to-agent—AI agents communicate with each other on behalf of buyers and sellers, (3) Brokered agent-to-site—intermediary platforms facilitate transactions between agents and stores.

The TAM is $630B by 2027 across 26M+ merchants. McKinsey projects $3-5 trillion in AI agent-driven retail by 2030. Gartner predicts 25% of digital transactions will be agent-driven by 2028. This represents a fundamental shift from click-based to agent-based commerce.

Protocol intelligence is the observability layer for agentic commerce. signalCommerce shows which AI agents are discovering your store, tracks the full UCP/ACP funnel (discovery, product query, add to cart, checkout, payment), and provides deep diagnostics with native integration into Datadog, Splunk, and Elastic.

signalCommerce integrates with Cloudflare, CloudFront, and Akamai. Connect your CDN logs in 15 minutes to start seeing which AI agents are discovering your store—no SDK required, no code changes needed.

The free Discovery tier takes 15 minutes—just connect your CDN logs. The Growth tier adds a 5-minute SDK wrapper for deep protocol diagnostics. No migration, no disruption to your current store.

Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Ikas, and custom headless stores via SDK. Our platform-agnostic middleware works with any UCP/ACP implementation—Google UCP, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or custom.

Agent checkout integrates with Stripe Agentic Commerce Protocol, Mastercard Agent Pay, Visa Intelligent Commerce, and PayPal Agentic SDK. These protocols enable secure in-chat purchasing without site redirects—achieving 94% checkout completion vs. 27% industry average.

Any AI agent implementing UCP: ChatGPT Shop, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, Gemini Shopping, Perplexity Buy, and emerging autonomous shopping agents. signalCommerce tracks all of them and shows you exactly how each agent moves through your commerce funnel.

Discovery tier is free—connect your CDN logs with no credit card required. Growth is $299/month for deep protocol diagnostics. Enterprise is $1,499/month for multi-platform support, distributed tracing, and dedicated SLA.

Request a demo from our team. We'll analyze your current e-commerce setup and show you how signalCommerce provides protocol intelligence for your agent commerce funnel. Most stores start seeing agent traffic data within 15 minutes.