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Edgebound Labs is an AI-native digital commerce lab, based in Mexico City. It designs, migrates and operates B2B, B2C and D2C commerce platforms with artificial intelligence at the core, on commercetools, BigCommerce, VTEX and Shopify Plus. It publishes original research on agentic commerce and on how ready online stores are for the AI agents that buy. It operates under ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, with over 20 years of enterprise commerce experience across Mexico and LATAM.

Research: agentic commerce in Mexico 2026

Our flagship study. Data and charts open under CC BY 4.0, with no store identities.

14Mexican retailers evaluated

40Checks per site

8Maturity areas measured

0With a checkout an agent can discover

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The study's 8 charts, in high-resolution PNG. Editorial use under CC BY 4.0, with attribution to Edgebound Labs.

Figure 1: From 14 stores measured to 0 declared purchase paths — Figure 1PNG

Figure 2: Only half the sample showed enough to receive a score — Figure 2PNG

Figure 3: The seven scored sites fall between Navigable and Operable — Figure 3PNG

Figure 4: Two independent instruments, the same share of blocks — Figure 4PNG

Figure 5: Six fresh sitemaps, three frozen ones and nothing in between — Figure 5PNG

Figure 6: The honest agent fares worse than the anonymous one — Figure 6PNG

Figure 7: A single platform ships the descriptor, and it is not in the sample — Figure 7PNG

Figure 8: How much each area weighs in the B2C score — Figure 8PNG

Suggested citation: Edgebound Labs (2026). Agentic commerce in Mexico 2026: a study of 14 retailers. https://www.edgebound.ai/en/labs/agentic-commerce-mexico-2026 · Free to use under CC BY 4.0, with attribution to Edgebound Labs and a link to the study.

Disclosure of interest

Who funded the study and what commercial interest anyone citing it should weigh.

This study was designed, executed and funded entirely by Edgebound Labs. No evaluated retailer sponsored the measurement, participated in its design, or had access to the results prior to publication.

Edgebound Labs sells digital commerce architecture and integration services, including assessments covering the same areas this instrument evaluates. Readers should weigh that commercial interest when interpreting the findings.

Román Torres Bátiz, the study’s author, is CEO of Edgebound Labs and chairs Branch 68 (E-Commerce) at CANACINTRA, Mexico’s national chamber of manufacturing industries. This measurement was not commissioned, reviewed or endorsed by CANACINTRA or by any other chamber or trade association.

The full instrument, methodology and data are published under a CC BY 4.0 license so that any third party can independently reproduce the measurement and contrast the results.

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Available for interviews in Spanish and English.

Román Torres Bátiz

CEO and Founder · Edgebound Labs

Founded Edgebound Labs to build scalable digital commerce systems. With over 20 years in enterprise technology and eCommerce, he has led B2B, B2C and D2C implementations on commercetools, VTEX, BigCommerce and Shopify Plus for retailers, distributors and brands across Mexico and LATAM.

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