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The Shelf Risk
Matt's framing for what agentic commerce does to a brand.
How it works
- 1AI-mediated shopping returns a short list, and your brand becomes one word next to a category.
- 2The premium your storytelling earns is exactly the premium the list format strips away.
- 3Margin difference between direct and marketplace is real and large, roughly 15 points for Loftie.
- 4The defense is not a prettier site. It is being findable and legible to agents, and owning a channel nobody can reprice on you.
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The Found Money AuditMatt's core operating loop: assume the leak already exists and go looking for it.The Next Marginal Dollar TestBefore spending another hour or dollar on Meta, ask whether Meta is even the highest-leverage place to put it.The Agent CastStructure your AI team the way you would structure a human one.Volume Beats TasteMeta rewards creative volume, and your gut is not your customer's gut.Cold, Dark, and QuietThe Loftie sleep floor, and the only three things Matt asks people to fix first.
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