The shift What AUX exposes Visible → operable You stay in control
The AUX Protocol

Ready for the buyer that isn't human.

The next shopper in your funnel may be an AI agent with a budget and instructions. It won't scroll your photos or read your reviews, it needs to query your prices, variants, availability, shipping, and policies, and get clean answers back. Beacon's AUX (Adaptive UX) Protocol structures every published storefront to answer exactly that, so sellers on Beacon are agentic-commerce ready by default, years before their competitors ask what that means. We think that matters most for the smallest shops: a place in the agentic marketplace shouldn't require an engineering team.

Built into every published pageRead-only · your checkout keeps the saleAgent-ready by default
A quick handshake: the agent asks, your store answers
AI agent asks answers AUX PROTOCOL · CLEAN ANSWERS price? $28.00 in stock? yes · 40 left ships to? US + EU · 2 days returns? 30 days buy here? checkout endpoint ✓ ✓ terms agreed, it can buy with confidence buys ✓ order placed routed to your checkout
AI agent asks answers AUX PROTOCOL · CLEAN ANSWERS price? $28.00 in stock? yes · 40 left ships to? US + EU · 2 days returns? 30 days buy here? checkout endpoint ✓ ✓ terms agreed, it can buy with confidence buys ✓ order placed routed to your checkout

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The agent doesn't browse, it asks. AUX turns every published page into a two-way handshake: clean, machine-readable answers to the questions an agent must settle before it buys, then the purchase routes to your own checkout. You keep the sale, the customer, and the margin.

The shift

Pages built for eyes vs. interfaces built for agents.

A normal storefront is designed for a human's attention, photos, persuasion, a checkout flow. An agent needs none of that. It needs structured, unambiguous answers it can trust enough to spend money on: is this the right product, is it in stock, will it ship where I am, what happens if it's returned, and where exactly do I complete the purchase. AUX is the layer that answers those, cleanly, on every page Beacon publishes.

Same product, two very different readers
For a human's eyes
hero photos · lifestyle shots
persuasive copy · urgency
reviews carousel · social proof
multi-step checkout flow
For an agent to act on
identity & variant, exact SKU
price & availability, as live data
shipping & returns, machine-readable
checkout endpoint, route to your store
Your human storefront stays exactly as it is. AUX adds the operable layer underneath, so an agent can act without ever touching your checkout design.
Under the hood

What an agent needs, and AUX exposes.

An agent can only buy what it can confidently resolve. AUX structures each of these on every published page, so a shopping agent never has to guess, and never has a reason to skip you for a competitor whose data it can read.

Identity

Exactly which product

Brand, product, and the precise variant, so the agent knows without ambiguity what it's about to buy.

Price

The real, current number

Live price and currency, the figure the agent budgets against, never a stale one.

Availability

In stock, right now

Real-time stock state, kept in sync with your store, so the agent doesn't commit to a sold-out item.

Shipping

Where & how fast

Destinations, times, and costs, so the agent can meet its buyer's constraints before it commits.

Policies

Returns & terms, plainly

Return windows and key terms as clear data, the safety net an agent checks before it spends.

Checkout routing

Straight to your store

A clean path to complete the purchase on your checkout, the sale, the customer, and the margin stay yours.

Six things an agent must resolve to buy with confidence, all handled for you, on every page.
Where Beacon comes inNone of this is work you have to understand or build. It ships with every Beacon-published page, a small shop becomes agent-ready the same day it onboards. Get agent-ready, free →
The readiness ladder

Crawlable, then readable, then operable.

Agent-readiness isn't one switch, it's three rungs. Most stores never get past the first. Beacon's published pages clear all three, so you're not just found by AI, you're usable by it.

Three rungs to agent-ready
Crawlable Readable Operable
Today

Visible

An assistant can read and recommend you, you make the shortlist when a person asks.

Next

Operable

An agent can act on you, resolve your offer and policies, confirm live stock, and route a purchase to your checkout.

The same clean, complete data that gets you recommended today is what makes you operable by agents tomorrow, AUX is how Beacon clears the top rung for you.
You stay in control

Operable to agents, never out of your hands.

Being agent-ready doesn't mean handing your store to a machine. AUX is a read-and-route layer: agents resolve the facts they need and are pointed to your checkout to finish. Beacon never takes payments, never holds your credentials, and never becomes a middleman on the sale.

Read-only

Nothing to hand over

Agents read your published facts. Beacon holds no credentials and no write access to your store, there's nothing to compromise.

Your checkout

The sale stays yours

Every purchase completes on your own store. You keep the transaction, the customer relationship, and the margin, always.

No lock-in

Leave whenever

Turn AUX off and your published pages retire, nothing embedded in your store to unwind. Readiness by choice, not by trap.

Agent-ready and fully in your control, the way new infrastructure should arrive for a small shop.
The through-line

The smallest shop, ready for the biggest shift.

Agentic commerce is coming whether or not anyone's storefront is ready for it. AUX makes sure yours is, quietly, by default, the day you publish. That's the whole point of Beacon: every seller, whatever their size, deserves a place in the AI answers today, and in the agentic marketplace next.

Be ready for the buyer that isn't human.

Paste your link and Beacon publishes agent-ready pages for your catalog, structured for shopping agents from day one, live in minutes, no card.

Start free, no card, and it stays free for shops under 20 products.