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Your customers aren't just human anymore. They're machines...and they're already making decisions about your brand. Agentic commerce is here, and it's predicted to account for $300B–$500B in sales by 2030. Brands that design only for humans are already silently losing billions. In this episode of The CMO Show, we talk to author of [descriptor] book, Machine Customers , Katja Forbes. They are joined by Gurvinder Singh, CMO at Altimetrik, which is putting Katja's principles into action. Together they unpack the next tectonic shift in marketing: AI agents as buyers, validators, and gatekeepers.…
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