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Agentic Commerce, a free technology course on Tomo

Agentic Commerce

Like Duolingo, but for Agentic Commerce. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

24 levels across 3 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Deploying Your First Agent; Managing the Transaction Lifecycle; and Trust, Identity, and Scale. It assumes you already know the basics.

24 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Buster the Buyer Bee, the guide who teaches the Agentic Commerce course
Agentic Commerce
with Buster the Buyer Bee
24
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Agentic Commerce

  • LLMs can hallucinate or ignore prompt-based constraints under complex logic
  • Utility functions assign weighted values to speed, cost, and reliability
  • Hard-coded API limits provide a fail-safe that the agent's logic cannot bypass
  • A balanced mandate prevents the agent from optimizing for a single metric at the expense of others
  • The necessity of hard-coded budget constraints over LLM-based reasoning
  • Applying a multi-attribute utility function to a purchasing decision
  • Preference profiles act as a 'brand identity' for the agent's decision-making
  • Consistent profiles ensure the agent represents the user's values across fragmented markets
  • Transactions with unverified sellers or new vendors carry high fraud risk
  • Total spend exceeding a specific 'mandate' threshold requires manual sign-off
  • HITL triggers prevent catastrophic losses from autonomous logic errors
  • The mandate is a dynamic document that evolves based on real-world outcomes
  • Mapping preference profiles to consistent agent behavior
  • Market feedback like shipping delays or quality issues should trigger mandate refinements
  • Identifying appropriate high-risk triggers for human intervention
  • The lifecycle of a mandate as a living document
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Agentic Commerce the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Giving Your Agent Rules

How does an agent decide between a cheap part that takes a week to arrive and a pricey part that arrives today?

Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.

Course map

Where Agentic Commerce takes you

Move beyond simple chatbots to build and manage AI agents that can negotiate, purchase, and execute transactions autonomously. Learn to navigate the shift from human-centric storefronts to agent-to-agent markets.

  1. 1

    Deploying Your First Agent

    • Setting the Agent's Mandate
    • Connecting to the Market
  2. 2

    Managing the Transaction Lifecycle

    • Autonomous Negotiation Strategies
    • Verification and Quality Control
    • Handling Exceptions and Edge Cases
  3. 3

    Trust, Identity, and Scale

    • Digital Wallets and Payment Rails
    • Reputation and Verifiable Credentials
    • The Future of the Agentic Funnel

3 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

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Explain Like I'm 5

Agentic Commerce is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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