Founding Partner Program · 25 agency cohort

A new channel is opening for your clients.
Plant the flag first.

Inception Agents is the infrastructure layer between every commerce platform and every major AI agent. Agencies who set it up for their clients during the formative quarters own the agentic-commerce relationship for the next decade — the way early SEO and paid-social agencies owned the channels they planted in.

Apply to the Program → Why now ↓ One account · Many clients · Shopify · Woo · BigCommerce · SFCC · Magento · Vercel
The agentic wave

The smartphone is being rebuilt as an agent. In real time. This quarter.

Discovery is moving off the browser and into the assistant. Apple and Google are both racing to make the operating system the primary AI surface. The next decade of product impressions happens inside a conversation — not a search results page.

TechCrunch May 12, 2026
Google brings agentic AI … to Android
CNBC May 2026
Google races to put Gemini at center of Android before Apple's AI reboot
TechCrunch May 5, 2026
Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models
Bloomberg May 5, 2026
Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features

The OS is becoming the agent.

Android is shipping agentic AI as a system primitive right now. iOS 27 will let users pick their AI — Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude — across system features. Product discovery moves from "open the browser, search Google" to "ask your phone." Every billion-device platform is now an agent surface.

Multi-model is the new default.

"Choose your own AI" on iOS means brands have to be discoverable to every major agent — not just the one with the biggest market share this quarter. That's the exact problem we built Inception Agents to solve: one activation, every major agent.

The transaction layer is closing the loop.

ChatGPT Instant Checkout shipped in February. Shopping-related AI searches grew 4,700% year over year. Over a million Shopify merchants are onboarding agentic surfaces. "Ask → buy" is replacing "search → click → browse → buy" for a fast-growing share of purchases.

The infrastructure window is open right now. Brands that aren't structured for agent evaluation are invisible in the new channel. Agencies that set up that infrastructure during the formative quarters own the client relationship for the next decade — the same way early SEO and paid-social agencies did.

  • 4,700% AI shopping search growth (2024→2025)
  • iOS 27 multi-model AI across system features
  • Android agentic AI shipped as OS primitive
  • 1M+ Shopify merchants onboarding agentic
A new service line

Three offerings you can sell to clients starting day one.

01 · One-time

AI Discovery Audit

A productized engagement you can sell from week one. Inception Agents runs the audit — agent visibility, JSON-LD coverage, honesty gaps, missing endpoints — and produces a client-ready report. You sell the discovery and interpret the recommendations.

Bills as Fixed-fee discovery engagement
02 · Per-domain

Agentic Commerce Setup

A 10-minute platform install on supported stacks (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce). A light-dev configuration for SFCC and Magento. You bill for setup, project management, and the configuration choices that shape how each client appears to every major agent.

Bills as One-time implementation revenue
03 · Recurring

Intent-Targeted Campaigns

The new ad product. Every agent visit produces first-party intent signal. You turn that signal into Meta, Google, and TikTok audiences — re-engaging the human shopper after the agent evaluated their question. This is a campaign type no other vendor can offer your clients.

Bills as Monthly campaign retainer
Intent-Targeted Campaigns

A campaign input nobody else can offer.

Every agent visit produces a first-party intent signal — the question the shopper asked, the comparison the agent ran, the product it evaluated. Inception Agents captures all of it. You turn it into the campaign infrastructure your competitors can't replicate.

  1. 01

    Re-engage agent-evaluated prospects

    Agent visit → intent capture → audience export → re-targeting

    Every time an AI agent evaluates a client's product on behalf of a shopper, we capture the intent signal. You package those signals into Meta, Google, and TikTok audiences — and re-engage the human shopper with creative that meets the question their agent was just asking.

    First-party intent. No third-party cookies. No tracking pixel dependency.
  2. 02

    Agent-affinity lookalikes

    Intent cohorts → seed audiences → platform-side modeling

    The shoppers whose agents evaluated a client's product are a higher-fidelity seed than any pixel-based cohort. Use them to power lookalike modeling on every major ad platform. You're feeding the algorithms a signal nobody else has.

    Seed quality compounds as agent traffic grows.
  3. 03

    Closed-loop attribution

    Agent click → human revisit → on-site action → revenue

    Inception Trace stitches the agent research session to the human shopper who arrives afterward and converts. You can finally show clients which agentic-commerce dollars produced revenue — by platform, by query, by product. Deterministic. No modeled fudging.

    Same attribution rigor as paid search, in a channel nobody else can measure.
One account, many clients

Sign in once. Operate a portfolio.

Each agency runs a single account, with each client as a separate tenant. Per-client visibility scores, per-client agent traffic, per-client billing. Implementation is fast enough that most agencies hand it off to the client by the end of week one.

Shopify
5 min
App install
WooCommerce
10 min
Plugin install
BigCommerce
10 min
App install
Vercel
15 min
Marketplace integration
SFCC
~1 hr
Edge cartridge + config
Magento
~1 hr
Module + config

Implementation times are real activations on customer stores in production — not lab estimates. Magento and SFCC need a developer touch; everything else is no-dev for the agency team.

What you operate

The platform handles the plumbing. You own the relationship.

We're honest about what's built today and what's on the roadmap. The light-touch operator surface below is live now. A deeper multi-tenant portfolio dashboard with cross-client analytics and bulk operations is on the path for founding partners — not promised today.

Today's operator surface
  • Client roster See every client tenant, status, agent traffic, alerts.
  • Visibility scores Per-client AI visibility score, by platform, with trend.
  • Alerts + digests Anomaly detection on agent traffic, intent shifts, honesty regressions.
  • Monthly insights brief Auto-generated PDF: agent activity, top queries, opportunities.
What partners own
  • Client communication Onboarding, monthly reviews, strategic recommendations.
  • Campaign strategy How the intent data gets packaged into audiences and creative.
  • Creative + media Re-engagement ad creative, landing pages, conversion paths.
  • Account growth Upsells into deeper engagements, additional client domains, retainers.
Partner economics

Three commitment tiers. Negotiable terms.

We're publishing the program shape, not the percentages. Founding partners get locked-in economics that won't degrade as the program matures — and those numbers scale with the volume you bring. We'd rather walk through the math on a call than post terms that don't reflect your portfolio.

Referral Lightest commit

Intro + close handoff

You make the introduction, we run the sale. Our sales team handles onboarding and ongoing account management. You take a referral economic each month the client stays.

Best for: agencies who want optionality without owning delivery.
Reseller Medium commit

You own the relationship + billing

You re-sell Inception Agents as part of your service offering. You hold the client relationship, set retail pricing, and bill the client directly. Our team supports you, not the client.

Best for: ecommerce agencies and Shopify Plus partners with established billing relationships.
Strategic Deepest commit

Co-built campaigns + roadmap input

For agencies committing meaningful client volume. You shape the product roadmap, get founder-tier economics locked in, and co-build campaign playbooks our other partners will inherit. Joint go-to-market support.

Best for: agencies with 50+ client portfolios in commerce verticals we want to push into.

"Terms are negotiable. Founding partners get locked-in economics that won't degrade as the program matures."

Talk economics →
Why now

25 founding agencies. One window.

ChatGPT Instant Checkout shipped in February. iOS 27's multi-model rollout lands in the back half of the year. Android shipped agentic AI as a system primitive last week. The window for being the agency that "set up agentic commerce for them" closes the moment your clients realize they needed it.

We're capping the Founding Partner Program at 25 agencies. The early cohort gets the favorable economics locked in, the roadmap input, and the joint go-to-market support. Once the cap fills, the program moves to a closed waitlist and the economics step down.

  • 01 Locked-in economics Founder-tier rev share that won't degrade as the program matures.
  • 02 Roadmap input Direct line to product. Your clients' edge cases shape the platform.
  • 03 Joint go-to-market Co-built case studies, co-presented webinars, conference programming.
  • 04 Strategic priority Founder-tier support response times and engineering availability.
Apply to the Founding Partner Program

Tell us about your portfolio. We'll be in touch within two business days.

Primary platform expertise — pick all that apply
We read every inquiry. No mailing list, no drip. A human will reply.
FAQ

Questions worth asking. Honest answers.

How does this work across many client domains?

One agency account, N client tenants. Each client gets its own visibility scores, agent traffic feed, and billing line. You see everything in a single login. Adding a client is the same as the install on that client's platform — 5 to 15 minutes on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Vercel; light dev for Magento and SFCC.

What does "manage" actually mean today?

Today: a client roster view, per-client visibility scores and alerts, and a monthly insights brief you can co-brand. We're honest that a deeper multi-tenant operator dashboard with cross-client analytics is still on the roadmap. Founding partners get input on what ships next.

What's the revenue share?

Negotiable, and scaled to commitment and volume. We publish the program shape, not the percentages, because the right number changes based on whether you're bringing 5 clients or 200, and whether you're re-selling vs. referring. We'd rather walk through the math on a call than post terms that don't reflect your portfolio.

What happens if a client churns?

No clawback, no penalty. The economics work because churned-client revenue compounds over the lifetime of the partnership — not because we're trying to net a couple months' margin on a single account.

Does this compete with our existing AI / SEO / paid offerings?

No. Agentic-commerce infrastructure is a new channel, not a replacement for SEO, content, paid, or CRO work. Most agencies see Inception Agents as a complement — it adds an offering they couldn't sell before, with intent data that makes their existing paid media work better.

Do we need a developer to install?

Not for Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Vercel — those are app/plugin installs your account team can handle. Magento and SFCC need a developer touch (~1 hour). For agencies without in-house dev, we provide a setup partner network.

What about agencies outside the US?

The program is global. The contract is governed by Delaware/SF venue (we're a US Delaware corporation), but the economics, support, and product are the same for partners anywhere.

How do we apply?

The form above. We read every inquiry personally and reply within two business days. If it's urgent, email partners@inceptionagents.com.

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