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Everyone is watching $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META) after the launch of Muse.

But I think there’s a more interesting question:

If people eventually stop opening Amazon, Nike, or individual shopping apps and simply tell an AI agent, “Buy this for me,” which company could quietly benefit from that shift?

One name I’m watching is $Shopify(SHOP)$.

Most investors still think of Shopify as a company that helps merchants build online stores.

That’s only part of the story.

How does Shopify actually make money?

Shopify has two major revenue engines.

The first is Subscription Solutions — merchants pay for Shopify’s software, including online stores, management tools, POS, analytics, and other services.

The second is Merchant Solutions, which includes payments, Shop Pay, financial products and other transaction-related services.

This second segment is particularly important.

Shopify isn’t simply helping businesses “build websites.”

It is increasingly becoming the infrastructure connecting merchants, customers and transactions.

And the business is already growing rapidly.

In Q2 2026, Shopify reported 34% year-over-year revenue growth, while GMV also grew more than 30%. Free cash flow margin reached 18%, and management guided for another low-30% revenue growth rate in Q3.

So this isn’t just an AI story.

Shopify already has a large, growing and cash-generating business.

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Then Muse changes the equation

This is where things get interesting.

AI agents are moving from:

“Tell me what to buy.”

to:

“Buy it for me.”

That requires much more than an AI chatbot.

An agent needs product information, inventory, pricing, shopping carts, checkout, payments and order management.

Shopify has been building exactly this infrastructure for years.

The company is now developing Agentic Commerce tools, including Catalog APIs, Universal Cart APIs and checkout capabilities that allow AI agents and other platforms to interact directly with Shopify merchants.

And Meta is already becoming part of that ecosystem.

Shopify has enabled eligible merchants to surface products through Meta’s AI shopping experiences, while Shopify-powered checkout can help complete transactions inside the Meta environment.

That creates a potentially powerful chain:

User → Meta Muse → Product discovery → Shopify merchant → Shopify checkout → Transaction

If that model scales, Shopify could benefit not simply from another traffic source, but from an entirely new transaction channel.

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The bigger opportunity

Think about how e-commerce works today.

A consumer searches for a product, visits several websites, compares prices, adds something to a cart and finally checks out.

An AI agent could potentially compress that entire process into one conversation.

For example:

«“Find me a good camera under $500 for travel.”»

The AI could search, compare, recommend, purchase and potentially track the order.

The interesting part is that Meta doesn’t need to own the merchant.

Shopify doesn’t need to own the AI assistant.

They can occupy different parts of the same ecosystem.

Meta owns the consumer-facing AI interface.

Shopify provides the merchant and commerce infrastructure.

That could become a very interesting business model if Agentic Commerce takes off.

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 But there are important risks

The first is valuation.

SHOP is no longer an undiscovered small-cap company. The market already expects significant growth.

Second, downloading Muse doesn’t automatically mean consumers will let AI agents handle their purchases.

The behavior still needs to be proven.

Third, large platforms such as Amazon may choose to restrict AI agents from accessing their commerce ecosystems, potentially slowing the development of agentic shopping.

And perhaps most importantly:

How much AI-generated shopping volume will actually flow through Shopify?

That is the number I would watch.

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 My thesis

I’m not looking at SHOP simply because:

“Meta’s Muse is popular → buy Shopify.”

The bigger thesis is this:

AI is moving from answering questions to performing tasks.

And shopping could be one of the first areas where that becomes directly monetizable.

If users eventually tell an AI agent:

«“Find it, compare it, and buy it.”»

the winners may not only be the companies building the AI.

They could also include the companies providing the commerce infrastructure underneath it.

That’s why Shopify is interesting to me.

 Meta may own the AI shopping interface. Merchants own the products. But Shopify could become one of the rails connecting AI intent to real transactions.

For me, the key metric isn’t Muse downloads.

It’s much simpler:

Can AI agents eventually generate meaningful GMV for Shopify?

If the answer becomes yes, the SHOP story could become much bigger than traditional e-commerce software.[龇牙]