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Consumer agentic commerce is stalled on liability and mandate problems. B2B receivables is not, and that is where agent-initiated payments are shipping now.
AI build versus buy is not one decision but six, one per stack layer. A decision matrix with defaults, override conditions, and traps for each.
Synthetic data explained: the three generation families, four jobs it does well, where it fails quietly, the regulatory read, and a fit-assessment framework.
Open weights do not commoditize AI. They relocate the toll booth to compute, distribution, and evaluation, and reshape who captures the AI margin.
Payment reconciliation explained: what actually gets matched, why the lump-sum deposit is hard to decompose, failure modes, automation, and health metrics.
Apple's lease-to-own device program is not a payment feature, it is the financialization of hardware. Who holds the residual risk, and who profits.
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