Visa has announced a new platform called Intelligent Commerce Connect to facilitate AI-driven commerce for businesses. The platform aims to provide a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic “on-ramp” for AI agent builders and merchants.
Intelligent Commerce Connect allows AI agents to browse, select, and pay for goods on behalf of consumers. Through integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform, businesses can initiate secure payments, handle tokenization, enforce spend controls, and manage authentication seamlessly.
The platform supports both Visa and non-Visa card payments and is designed to work with major AI agent protocols. It makes merchant catalogs easily discoverable on AI platforms while ensuring PCI compliance.
This system is currently in the pilot phase with selected partners and is projected for a broader rollout in 2026. The launch follows Visa’s earlier announcement of “Visa CLI,” an experimental product aimed at facilitating same-day payments by AI agents.
In a related move, AI fintech firm Nevermined has integrated with Visa’s Intelligent Commerce using Coinbase’s x402 protocol. This integration allows AI agents to autonomously purchase digital goods and services.
Nevermined users can enroll their Visa cards, set spending limits for AI transactions, and merchants will receive payments through their current processing systems. Erik Reppel, the creator of the x402 protocol, noted that it enables agents to request payment programmatically. “This launch demonstrates how that can work alongside secure card infrastructure to enable real commercial transactions between AI agents and merchants,” Reppel stated.
The x402 protocol has already achieved $24 million in transactional volume over the past 30 days, highlighting its efficacy in facilitating AI-driven commerce.
