From Shopify to Sapiom: Building the OS for Agentic Commerce

Yeah, and like the idea of Sapium actually came out like, uh, a bit more than three years ago, like, uh, actually end twenty twenty-two when, uh, we had ChatGPT that went live.

Uh, it's the first time that actually people experienced like AI, uh, the first time that we actually cracked large language models, and actually that we could get value, uh, from, uh, AI.

And for me, it was very obvious because those models were already very smart, uh, but they were very smart in a chatbot.

You can ask any question, they can give you any answer.

But it's limited to a prompting on the, uh, a chat interface, where, uh, the next step were quite clear.

Actually, those models would become smarter, meaning it's not about just giving you an answer to a question.

It's as well being able to reason.

You give them a problem, and they will figure out how to solve it.

And then being able to actually do things in the background.

'Cause at the end, an agent, what we call an agent, before like, uh, the LLM, before a chatbot, it's just a piece of software that is smart, and it doesn't have to live on in a chat interface.

It can live in a background or scripts like any type of software.

And then that's what we call agent.

Really, those piece of software that can make, uh, autonomous decisions on their own.

When I started to play with ChatGPT in twenty twenty-two, that's where I realized, actually, that when that will be a thing, that those agents will be able to operate on their own, everything will break because the internet, the amount of infrastructure, everything has been designed to actually prevent those behaviors from the software.

And then it took me a while to find the right moment to build.

Uh, I think the-- It started to really take shape early last year when we started to see more reasoning models, chain of thoughts, and like- Really the early of Claude on like, uh, early last year, we had like a massive, uh, step change in, in the reasoning models.

And then in the first quarter, we had MCP, which is like, okay, now you have very smart model, and they can communicate with other systems.

And then in May, June, we started to see payment rails emerging for agent, like X for two from Coinbase.

And since then, we had MasterCard that build Agent Pay, we are a partner.

Uh, Stripe, they build machine payments protocol.

So there's all the infrastructure pieces that are coming together to enable this new world of trillions of agents operating in the economy.

And Sapium is the platform to enable that and make that, uh, a thing possible.

Yeah, and like the idea of Sapium actually came out like, uh, a bit more than three years ago, like, uh, actually end twenty twenty-two when, uh, we had ChatGPT that went live.

Uh, it's the first time that actually people experienced like AI, uh, the first time that we actually cracked large language models, and actually that we could get value, uh, from, uh, AI.

And for me, it was very obvious because those models were already very smart, uh, but they were very smart in a chatbot.

You can ask any question, they can give you any answer.

But it's limited to a prompting on the, uh, a chat interface, where, uh, the next step were quite clear.

Actually, those models would become smarter, meaning it's not about just giving you an answer to a question.

It's as well being able to reason.

You give them a problem, and they will figure out how to solve it.

And then being able to actually do things in the background.

'Cause at the end, an agent, what we call an agent, before like, uh, the LLM, before a chatbot, it's just a piece of software that is smart, and it doesn't have to live on in a chat interface.

It can live in a background or scripts like any type of software.

And then that's what we call agent.

Really, those piece of software that can make, uh, autonomous decisions on their own.

When I started to play with ChatGPT in twenty twenty-two, that's where I realized, actually, that when that will be a thing, that those agents will be able to operate on their own, everything will break because the internet, the amount of infrastructure, everything has been designed to actually prevent those behaviors from the software.

And then it took me a while to find the right moment to build.

Uh, I think the-- It started to really take shape early last year when we started to see more reasoning models, chain of thoughts, and like- Really the early of Claude on like, uh, early last year, we had like a massive, uh, step change in, in the reasoning models.

And then in the first quarter, we had MCP, which is like, okay, now you have very smart model, and they can communicate with other systems.

And then in May, June, we started to see payment rails emerging for agent, like X for two from Coinbase.

And since then, we had MasterCard that build Agent Pay, we are a partner.

Uh, Stripe, they build machine payments protocol.

So there's all the infrastructure pieces that are coming together to enable this new world of trillions of agents operating in the economy.

And Sapium is the platform to enable that and make that, uh, a thing possible.