<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>AI Commerce News · Syntrologie</title><description>Engineering and product notes from Syntrologie</description><link>https://syntrologie.com/</link><item><title>OpenAI Sponsored Agents vs. a Brand Agent: What Brands Actually Need to Build</title><link>https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/2026-09-17-sponsored-agents-vs-brand-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/2026-09-17-sponsored-agents-vs-brand-agent/</guid><description>ChatGPT Ads, product feeds, crawler access and MCP make a brand&apos;s information available to AI. Turning that into a decision for a shopper is a different job.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to run your ChatGPT Sponsored Agent on your own brand agent</title><link>https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/2026-09-21-sponsored-agents-setup-brand-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/2026-09-21-sponsored-agents-setup-brand-agent/</guid><description>Sponsored Agents put an AI representative of your brand inside ChatGPT. Here is how to set one up on the Syntrologie brand agent, and why that beats letting a generic model speak for you.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Classic storefront search was built for shoppers who already know what they want</title><link>https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/classic-storefront-search-is-not-enough/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://syntrologie.com/blog/posts/classic-storefront-search-is-not-enough/</guid><description>Site search matches words to products. Shoppers now arrive with a need, a deadline and a sentence, and a ranked grid of single items can&apos;t answer that.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>