Gr4vy, the leading cloud-native payment orchestration platform, has announced the release of its Alpha MVP for Agentic Payments Orchestration, alongside a strategic collaboration with Google to support the development of a new open protocol for agentic payments. This initiative is designed to promote greater trust and transparency across digital ecosystems.
As agentic commerce gains momentum—where AI-powered agents autonomously shop, compare, and transact on behalf of consumers—Gr4vy’s Alpha explores how orchestration can underpin this emerging paradigm, ensuring secure, seamless, and scalable payment experiences.
“Agentic commerce is no longer a concept on the horizon; it’s becoming a reality. Our Alpha MVP shows how orchestration can empower merchants to embrace this shift with control, security, and flexibility,” said John Lunn, Founder & CEO of Gr4vy. “By supporting an open protocol alongside Google, we’re helping build the trust foundation that agentic payments need to thrive.”
The solution leverages a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server deployed within each merchant’s single-tenant Gr4vy instance. Acting as a front-end for agents, the MCP enables seamless interaction between AI systems, merchant infrastructure, and Gr4vy’s orchestration layer.
The Alpha MVP showcases several key elements that highlight Gr4vy’s approach to agentic payments. At the Agentic Shopping Layer, AI agents can discover products across multiple merchants and complete transactions through MCP integration. This is supported by an Inventory Management Bridge, which allows merchants to upload or sync inventory data with MCP servers, enabling real-time stock discovery and seamless order fulfillment.
A Wallet Layer, utilizing Google’s AP2 Credentials Provider framework, is also included, built using Gr4vy’s Vaulting solution to securely store and tokenize multiple payment methods with configurable MFA and spend controls. Finally, the Agentic Orchestrator Layer detects agentic transactions, applies orchestration logic, and routes payments through Gr4vy’s backend orchestration. This gives merchants the ability to define agent-specific rules, apply fraud controls, and integrate easily with existing reporting systems, ensuring trust, security, and flexibility in agent-driven commerce.
This Alpha demonstrates how agent-initiated transactions can be authenticated, tokenized, and orchestrated securely, while giving merchants flexibility to adapt orchestration strategies specifically for agentic commerce.
Gr4vy is also proud to announce its participation in Google’s initiative, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), to create a new open protocol for agentic payments. Developed in collaboration with leading payments and technology companies, this protocol establishes a secure, interoperable framework for agent-initiated transactions across platforms.
The protocol is designed to enable standardized communication between AI agents, wallets, merchants, and orchestrators, creating a common framework for agent-driven transactions. By doing so, it provides both merchants and consumers with greater trust and transparency in the emerging world of agentic payments. At the same time, it seeks to prevent fragmentation across the ecosystem by promoting open interoperability.
Gr4vy is inviting merchants, payment companies, and commerce platforms to explore agentic commerce alongside them and contribute to shaping this new era of payments.
