Karmi: E-commerce flows fail for AI agents by assuming human checkout
Eyal Karmi · Empowering Innovation: The Intersection of Corporate Venture Capital and AI-Driven Startups · May 14, 2025 · at 36:46
Eyal Karmi, co-founder and CEO of Nakuda, explains the friction observed when testing early autonomous AI agents on standard e-commerce websites.
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“The bot prevention that these websites usually have, and we realized there's kind of an inherent friction in general. These flows assume there's a human, kind of, that taps by.”
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