VGS Provides the Merchant Infrastructure for Agentic Commerce

As agentic commerce becomes increasingly digital, protocol-driven interactions promise speed, privacy, and automation. However, somewhere between these mandates and emerging agentic protocols, a dangerous gap is forming, in which merchants are losing access to the data and context that have long powered fraud prevention, authorization intelligence, customer understanding, and overall business optimization.

At VGS, we believe this new wave of agentic commerce represents an incredible channel, yet from a merchant's perspective, its greatest risk is the loss of direct insight into how and why customers make purchases. These insights are crucial for making informed decisions regarding loyalty, lifetime value, and targeted promotions.

While agentic commerce can unlock powerful new avenues for conversion, it also introduces critical blind spots for merchants, particularly when it comes to understanding the payments and transactions that drive their business.

This is where VGS steps in. VGS provides the critical infrastructure necessary to restore data transparency, enabling merchants to thrive in an agent-driven environment. Positioned within the transaction flow with agent permission, VGS captures the essential data elements and can securely transmit them downstream to merchants and PSPs. By doing so, VGS reintroduces the context that agentic commerce otherwise strips away from merchants.

VGS's critical role is bridging the growing data gap created by agentic commerce. To generate an agentic token, VGS must collect a comprehensive set of data fields (including agent identification, identity and verification, consumer mandates, and payment credentials) and send them to the payment networks for validation. Because VGS participates throughout the transaction flow and does so with agent permission, we are uniquely positioned to securely pass these data elements to both merchants and payment service providers (PSPs), ensuring they have access to the contextual information currently lost in upstream tokenization.

We believe this shared data is highly valuable for merchants and is also in the agent's best interest, as it can enhance key areas such as fraud prevention, authorization rates, and customer analytics. By enabling merchants to access this information and optionally share relevant insights with PSPs, VGS can help restore visibility and trust across the payment ecosystem.

In this model, agent platforms also have an incentive to cooperate with merchants by sharing data that supports better outcomes for all parties involved. VGS's approach reduces the burden on both merchants and agents by eliminating the need for multiple data captures. Instead, VGS collects the required data once from the agent and securely distributes it downstream to any authorized party who needs it.

Ultimately, VGS can ensure that the right data flows to the right participants while maintaining privacy and compliance.