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title: Autonomous Commerce Reference Architecture
description: A reference architecture for handing commercial decisions to AI agents in a way you can govern, stop, and defend, from Orium, commercetools, MongoDB, and Stripe.
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# Autonomous Commerce Reference Architecture

How to hand commercial decisions to AI agents in a way you can govern, stop, and defend.

[READ THE GUIDE](https://insights.orium.com/autonomous-commerce-reference-architecture#ACRAForm)

 

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# Autonomous Commerce Reference Architecture

How to hand commercial decisions to AI agents in a way you can govern, stop, and defend.

[DOWNLOAD REPORT](https://insights.orium.com/autonomous-commerce-reference-architecture#ACRAForm)

 

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## What’s Inside

A comprehensive architecture for delegating commercial decisions to AI agents, with a worked example following a single decision at a fictional manufacturer from trigger to dispute.

- A reference model built on seven domains, each with a single test for whether you have it
- Design decisions and trade-offs for runtimes, identity, the capability layer, shared definitions, and the decision record
- Ready-to-use templates for describing a class of work, a capability, a decision record, and an escalation contract
- Where to start: the three pieces of work that matter most, and how to choose your first delegation

 

[DOWNLOAD REPORT](https://insights.orium.com/autonomous-commerce-reference-architecture#ACRAForm)

## **What's inside**

A comprehensive architecture for delegating commercial decisions to AI agents, with a worked example following a single decision at a fictional manufacturer from trigger to dispute.

- A reference model built on seven domains, each with a single test for whether you have it
- Design decisions and trade-offs for runtimes, identity, the capability layer, shared definitions, and the decision record

![3\_pages](https://insights.orium.com/hubfs/ACRA%20report%20LP/3_pages.png "3_pages")

- Ready-to-use templates for describing a class of work, a capability, a decision record, and an escalation contract
- Where to start: the three pieces of work that matter most, and how to choose your first delegation

[DOWNLOAD REPORT](https://insights.orium.com/autonomous-commerce-reference-architecture#ACRAForm)

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### **The Software Buyer’s Guide to Agentic AI**

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### **From Vibe Coding to Supervised Autonomy**

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### **Every Dashboard, Application and Agent Needs the Same Answers About Your Business**

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