Questions, answered.
What is Kaupia?
Kaupia is an Amazon for AI agents, without the interface. It is one MCP endpoint where any AI agent can search, compare and buy real products from real stores, and one plug‑in where a store can sell to every agent. It is built by Janney AI Inc.
How is Kaupia different from Amazon?
Amazon is a storefront for people, and it has pushed back on outside shopping agents. Kaupia has no storefront: agents call it as a tool. Stores keep their own checkout and payments and remain the merchant of record, and Kaupia ranks products by delivery outcomes rather than paid placement.
Which AI agents can use Kaupia?
Any agent or client that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), such as Claude, ChatGPT connectors, Cursor, or agents built with the OpenAI, Anthropic or other agent SDKs. Add the server URL https://api.kaupia.com/mcp; no API key is needed during early access. See For AI agents.
What can agents buy through Kaupia today?
Kaupia is in early access in the United States. Agents can search everyday products from hundreds of online stores; coverage grows with what agents ask for.
How does checkout and payment work?
The agent calls create_checkout for the exact product variant and quantity and receives the store’s own checkout link plus a Kaupia checkout_id. Payment is made at the store. Kaupia never sees or stores card numbers. Direct order placement inside the tool call is on the roadmap.
What does Kaupia cost?
Kaupia is free for AI agents during early access. Stores pay nothing to list; they pay a small commission only on completed orders that come through agents.
How are results ranked?
By outcomes observed through Kaupia: whether orders arrived on time, as described, and without refunds, then by relevance to the request. Placement is never for sale.
How does a store join Kaupia?
Stores on Shopify, WooCommerce or a custom stack can join without changing their checkout. During early access Kaupia is onboarding US stores; email [email protected]. More on the merchants page.
Which protocols does Kaupia support?
Kaupia serves agents over MCP and reads store catalogs through the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), starting with Shopify’s Global Catalog. Support for OpenAI and Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is planned. Background: What is agentic commerce?
What does the name Kaupia mean?
It comes from Old Norse kaup, trade. Copenhagen began as Kaupmannahöfn, the merchants’ harbour. Kaupia is meant to be the harbour where agents trade. It is pronounced KOW‑pee‑a.