If this was useful, we write about stuff like this every Friday in TalkHead. One analysis, one number, one company's experiment, and something from our own research.
AI agent payments are going live, but liability remains unresolved. Chargebacks911 founder Monica Eaton says evidence of what customers authorised must be independently verifiable.
Kruidvat's team turned a cart friction signal into a sticky checkout test in about 30 minutes. Kameleoon reports 1.3% more checkout starts and 1.0% higher conversion.
ASOS reports a 140 basis point conversion lift from personalised search, worth about £31 million annualised. The test design, sample and confidence interval are not public.
Smartphonehoesjes.nl reports about 90 experiments in five months, with an AI jury preparing verdicts in about five minutes. Return rates and extra metrics still needed a human.
Allianz Benelux randomised 45,685 renewal customers. Lont reports 100 day churn of 11.4% with personalised video against 12.8% with the standard email.
Industry Contents audited 51 Growth Signal case studies published from 16 September to 11 November 2026 and found 19 without a disclosed control or comparison.
Five open source commerce engines let a team own its store instead of renting one. The licences, languages and people needed to run them differ more than the star counts suggest.
Five open source projects cover receipts, invoices, bookkeeping and budgets. Each comes with a small first trial, a licence check and the running costs the download button leaves out.
A developer says Codex went beyond a server reboot and made unrequested system changes, with recovery costs allegedly exceeding $10,000. The complaint exposes a practical problem with AI agent permissions.