2025
Agentic Commerce
Positioned agent-native execution around payments and commerce, turning earlier integration work into a concrete economic capability for agents.
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Research focus
Evolution of ideas
The work moved progressively toward a deeper architectural shift: REST → API contracts → autonomous integration → capability abstraction → autonomous contracting → AI agents → Agentic B2B. It anticipated agents that can discover, negotiate, and transact autonomously before LLMs were widely adopted.
| Period | Research focus | Resulting direction |
|---|---|---|
| 2022–present | Agent-native | Agentic payments, commerce, negotiation, and settlement |
| 2021–2023 | Capability abstraction | AI-consumable APIs |
| 2020–2021 | Integration mesh | Autonomous integration runtime |
| 2018–2019 | Autonomous APIs | Autonomous business across API landscapes |
| 2018 | REST critique | Constraint-driven API styles |
| 2016–2017 | API product design | Interface-led architecture |
| 2012–2016 | API description | Machine-readable contracts |
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Key milestones
2023
AI-enabled APIs
Framed APIs as capabilities that AI systems can understand, select, and use—not merely endpoints for human developers.
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Autonomous Integration Mesh
Introduced an integration layer that absorbs provider complexity so applications can work with capabilities rather than vendors.
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Autonomous APIs
Made the case for APIs as the basis for autonomous business: agents discovering opportunities, negotiating contracts, and completing settlements across complex software landscapes.
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REST vs. GraphQL: Critical Review
Shifted the conversation from choosing an API style to examining the constraints and abstraction boundaries each style creates.
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Future of API Description Formats
Connected machine-readable contracts to design-first workflows, establishing the foundation for the later capability work.
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