Q01 · AI & AgentsAssess◌ NewHorizon: 12-18 mo

Autonomous Coding Agents for Commerce Platforms

Agents assisting migration and feature development on e-commerce platforms.

Early pilots show strong results on well-tested storefront and checkout codebases — still requires careful human review for anything touching payment or PCI-scoped code paths.

Autonomous Coding Agents across other industries

Agents that independently write, test and open pull requests against real codebases.

Engineering

From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.