AgenticPay: When LLMs Start Haggling for a Living
Opening — Why this matters now Agentic AI has moved beyond polite conversation. Increasingly, we expect language models to act: negotiate contracts, procure services, choose suppliers, and close deals on our behalf. This shift quietly transforms LLMs from passive tools into economic actors. Yet here’s the uncomfortable truth: most evaluations of LLM agents still resemble logic puzzles or toy auctions. They test reasoning, not commerce. Real markets are messy—private constraints, asymmetric incentives, multi-round bargaining, and strategic patience all matter. The paper behind AgenticPay steps directly into this gap. ...