Engineering & research profile

Ahnaf Prio

Best Buy · 2026

Ahnaf Prio leads agentic commerce engineering at Best Buy. He previously served as CTO of Invive.io and the restaurant technology company Tavolo.

He focuses on the interfaces between shopping agents and merchants: product information, cart state, checkout, authorization and payments. His work treats protocol compliance and behavioral evaluation as part of building retail experiences that remain reliable when an agent acts for a customer.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202620:37

The Agentic Commerce Stack — Ahnaf Prio, Best Buy

Ahnaf Prio explains agentic commerce from a merchant perspective, covering standardized product data, agent communication, checkout, and payment authorization. A fictional bakery agent demonstrates the flow. He emphasizes behavioral evaluations, protocol compliance, and latency testing while distinguishing existing integrations from still-developing…

Ahnaf Prio

References

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