CommerceGov

Six-week Production Authority Pilot

Test governed production authority on a real Shopify workload.

AI, agents, tools, and people may prepare consequential production changes. The pilot evaluates the governed path those changes take — deterministic policy, explicit authority, controlled execution, verification, and evidence — and measures the operating effect rather than assuming CommerceGov wins.

Agentic Authority Protocol for AI-driven commerce, delivered as a production-authority control plane. Shopify is the first and only production-proven adapter.

Who this is for

Teams where several actors can change Shopify production

Designed primarily for agencies and operational teams where agents, tools, scripts, or people prepare consequential production changes, and where the team wants evidence on whether a governed authority path improves control, capacity, accountability, or recovery.

  • Agents, tools, scripts, or people prepare production changes
  • Several operators participate in production work
  • Approval, execution, and verification ownership is fragmented
  • Unclear boundaries over who can change what in production
  • Consequential Shopify changes recur at meaningful volume
  • Difficulty proving afterward what was authorized, applied, and verified

Fit indicators, not hard eligibility rules: multiple Shopify stores (roughly 10+ managed stores), multiple team members (3+ team members), and enough recurring change volume to compare a meaningful workload—often around 500+ changes over a relevant window. Store count and catalog size describe scale, not the authority problem itself.

How the pilot works

Six weeks. Two distinct operating periods.

Weeks 1–2

Measure the baseline

Baseline and controlled comparison: document the existing workflow and measure it using equivalent workload and starting conditions where practical.

Weeks 3–6

Run governed workload

Operate agreed Shopify production work through CommerceGov: deterministic policy, review where required, explicit authority, controlled execution, verification where supported, and evidence.

Controlled comparison

Compare the operating path, not Shopify API latency.

The comparison starts from the same or equivalent mutation workload and evaluates the full path to verified production state.

What is measured

Five operational measurement pillars

TIME

Elapsed operational time required to reach verified production state.

REWORK

Corrections or repeated work required to reach the intended state.

CAPACITY

Verified production throughput over the measurement window.

AUTHORITY

Whether each production action stayed within the intended operator, policy, review, and approval boundary.

VERIFICATION

Whether the resulting production state was authoritatively confirmed.

Applied ≠ Verified. An accepted write is not proof of the resulting Shopify production state. Verification is mutation-scoped: it confirms the specific governed change, not the whole store.

Pilot target: 3–5× operator capacity — a hypothesis measured against your workflow, not an achieved result.

Production authority

Put a controlled boundary between proposal and production.

CommerceGov does not replace Shopify role-based access. It governs production authority inside the access Shopify already grants, and it does not give AI autonomous production authority. Under the hood, the Authority Kernel applies policy and authority rules before the Shopify adapter is allowed to write.

ProposalDeterministic policyReview where requiredExplicit authorityControlled executionRead-back where supportedEvidence

Capability ≠ Authority ≠ Applied ≠ Verified. Being able to prepare a change is not authority to make it, and approval does not itself execute it. Execution is a separate controlled step, and an applied write is confirmed only by a separate read-back, where supported.

Who changed it? Who could approve it? Which store and fields were in scope? What was approved, applied, and verified? The pilot tests whether those questions become reliably answerable.

  • Shopify is currently the first and only production-proven adapter. Other production systems are not part of the pilot scope.
  • Agent stacks are qualified, not assumed. ChatGPT/WebMCP and Gemini have been demonstrated, not production-proven. Claude and other agents use the same proposal boundary; no native integration is claimed. Other agent stacks and future adapters are not represented as production-proven in this pilot.
  • CommerceGov governs the path it controls. It does not prevent writes made through separate access. Later divergence opens reconciliation without changing the original Applied result.

What you receive

Decision-ready operational evidence

  • Controlled baseline comparison
  • Time, rework, and capacity observations
  • Actor and authority lineage
  • Policy decisions, including blocked and exception paths
  • Approval lineage and execution admission
  • Applied-versus-verified results
  • Recovery or reconciliation evidence where exercised

Participation and scope

Agree the boundary before measurement

The team selects the Shopify workflow, bounded production mutation classes, participating operators and stores, who or what proposes changes, who authorizes them, policy and approval rules, and comparable starting conditions. Representative catalog fields may be included only when they match the currently supported scope.

Participants need named operational owners, access to the existing workflow for baseline measurement, a meaningful recurring workload, and time for review and evidence readout.

Next step

Test the operating model on an agreed Shopify workload.

Paid six-week engagement. Pricing is scoped to the agreed production workflow, systems, authority boundary, and verification requirements before the pilot begins.

Apply for the pilot, or start with a conversation about your current workflow.