https://mntfuture.com/blog Guides on AI-native commerce, agent-ready selling, headless builds and US commerce compliance from MnT Future. en https://mntfuture.com/blog/your-build-passed-that-proves-nothing https://mntfuture.com/blog/your-build-passed-that-proves-nothing Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:34:41 GMT Our own production build reported success while the typechecker found errors on three files. The config had been told to ignore them — and someone had said yes on purpose. https://mntfuture.com/blog/demand-your-order-data-cant-show https://mntfuture.com/blog/demand-your-order-data-cant-show Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:34:40 GMT Forty people searched for something last week and you don't stock it. That never appears in your sales reports — because those shoppers left. https://mntfuture.com/blog/headless-what-you-own-vs-rent https://mntfuture.com/blog/headless-what-you-own-vs-rent Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:34:40 GMT "Full code ownership" is on every agency site including ours. Here are the three questions that tell you whether it means anything. https://mntfuture.com/blog/when-your-ai-provider-goes-down https://mntfuture.com/blog/when-your-ai-provider-goes-down Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:33:07 GMT Not if — providers rate-limit, change models, and expire billing. If AI search is the only search you have, an outage at their end is an outage at yours. https://mntfuture.com/blog/what-makes-a-commerce-build-slow https://mntfuture.com/blog/what-makes-a-commerce-build-slow Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:33:07 GMT Not the code. We quote four weeks for a storefront build — and the projects that miss it almost never miss on engineering. https://mntfuture.com/blog/real-ai-demo-vs-scripted https://mntfuture.com/blog/real-ai-demo-vs-scripted Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:33:07 GMT The demo always works. Ask for the boring things instead — a query nobody rehearsed, the logs, the bill. Every AI system we've built broke first on something no amount of code review would have found. https://mntfuture.com/blog/questions-to-ask-an-ai-vendor https://mntfuture.com/blog/questions-to-ask-an-ai-vendor Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:31:40 GMT An agent that answers questions is a demo. An agent that can create a promotion is a liability with a login. These five questions separate them — and most vendors fail the second one. https://mntfuture.com/blog/do-you-need-an-mcp-server https://mntfuture.com/blog/do-you-need-an-mcp-server Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:31:40 GMT Every Shopify store already exposes one at /api/mcp, with no setup. Before you scope agent access, find out whether you've had it all along. https://mntfuture.com/blog/do-we-need-to-replatform-for-ai-search https://mntfuture.com/blog/do-we-need-to-replatform-for-ai-search Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:31:40 GMT Usually not — and if AI search is the only reason you're considering it, buy an app instead. Here's the honest version of a question every vendor answers in their own favour. https://mntfuture.com/blog/semantic-search-product-descriptions https://mntfuture.com/blog/semantic-search-product-descriptions Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:15:17 GMT We shipped vector search and it ranked sweatpants first for "breathable for a hot summer day". The retrieval code was fine. The catalog had nothing to match on.