tote

Making the world’s commerce agent-native.

Tote runs the live rails agents buy through: a real cart on 4,000+ verified stores, checkout on the store’s own page, the money never touching us. And it publishes what those rails measure.

  1. Before 1995

    Commerce meant a catalog and a phone call.

    Orders came by mail and by phone. A store’s reach was the reach of its paper.

  2. 1995 – 2010

    The storefront goes online.

    Amazon, eBay, Shopify. Every store got a website — built for a human with a mouse.

  3. 2010 – 2022

    Checkout moves to the phone.

    Marketplaces and one-tap pay. Faster, smaller, still a human tapping.

  4. 2022 – now

    Post-ChatGPT.

    People research every purchase with an assistant and finish none of them there. The assistant isn’t missing intelligence. It’s missing hands.


Our thesis

Stores are not going to rebuild themselves for agents.

They never integrated for anyone. The rails have to work with the stores that already exist.

An agent should search any store, build a real cart, and hand a human a real checkout.

For the first time, that can be every store — not the ones that opted in.


Three ways in

Every store on the other side of one connection.

Your agent speaks to Tote; Tote speaks to stores in their native language. The last step is always the store’s own checkout, so the money never touches us.

MCP

The connector

Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. One URL, every tool.

usetote.dev/mcp
ShopifyWooCommerceBest Buy
REST

The API

The same tools over plain HTTPS, from any language.

GET /v1/stores?query=coffee
ShopifyWooCommerceBest Buy
No install

The prompt

Paste one prompt into any browsing-enabled chat. Zero setup, zero keys.

copy the prompt
ShopifyWooCommerceBest Buy

From the lab

What the lab publishes.

Measured, not modeled. Everything here comes off the same rails agents buy through, counts calls and outcomes only, and never names a store as broken.


Team

Join the team building the rails for agent commerce.

Three of us, moving fast. We can build faster than we can reach people, so we are hiring across the board. Every role comes with equity.

Software EngineerGo-To-Market StrategistAnd whatever role it takes