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title: "Your next customer is an AI agent"
date: 2026-07-21
source: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a5fe8ca8f834b6db222837a96a1231b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fastcompany.com%2f91575961%2fyour-next-customer-is-an-ai-agent&c=5469937157721349260&mkt=en-us
description: "As customers increasingly let AI agents handle transactions on their behalf, the companies that lead will be the ones whose internal systems turn fragmented data into shared context."
---

# Your next customer is an AI agent

As customers increasingly let AI agents handle transactions on their behalf, the companies that lead will be the ones whose internal systems turn fragmented data into shared context.

*Published: 2026-07-21*