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🎙️Agentic Commerce's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Technology — with Jas Shah
A year and a half ago, agentic commerce was going to change everything. Type a prompt, get a package. So what actually happened?
In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau sits down with fintech product expert Jas Shah for a clear-eyed look at where agentic commerce really stands. The technology has mobilized, but as Jas puts it, becoming ready is not the same as being ready. Disputes, chargebacks, and fraud liability haven't been solved for a world where transaction volume could rise exponentially. And consumer behavior hasn't moved at all: they will use AI for discovery, then still tap Apple Pay to buy. 
The conversation turns on a single test: utility. Where an agent removes genuine administrative burden, it wins. Where the person actually wants to choose, it doesn't. Which is why Jas argues the real early adopters are businesses: inventory systems, product codes, predictable repeat purchasing, and a procurement decision that comes down to price and delivery speed. 
Ready for a bold bet for 2030? It involves a wallet … 

💬Hot take: "The tech is becoming ready, but I don't think anyone can say it's ready yet."
🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Keywords: Fintech, Financial Services, AI, Agentic Commerce 

Timestamp:
00:00 Welcome and Intro
00:57 Agentic Commerce Reality Check
04:45 Trust and Value Exchange
08:55 Why Businesses Adopt First
11:29 Authorization and Fraud Guardrails
13:22 PSPs and Wallets Strategy
17:27 What People Get Wrong
19:23 Agentic Finance for SMEs
24:37 Personal Finance Utility
27:18 Bold Bet for 2030

More about our guest 
🌐Jas Shah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jas-shah/ 

More about our host and One Vision Podcast 
🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 
🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 
🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 
🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision

Tara Murphy, is an Irish PhD student at Cambridge working in quantum technologies, who has recently written a children’s book called Qubit the Cat. It’s a children’s story that introduces quantum computing in a playful and accessible way. Tara knows quantum computing usually sounds like something only researchers or tech companies talk about, but she wanted to show that children can meet these ideas much earlier, through imagination and storytelling.
I recently caught up with Tara to find out more about her and her latest book. Tara talks about her background, stem, her books, quantum and more.
More about Tara Murphy:
Tara is a recently graduated Theoretical Physics Student at Trinity College Dublin Ireland and last year she completed her MRes in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge. Tara has  an interest in both Mathematical Physics and Machine Learning and hopes to combine these areas of physics throughout her future career.
Tara also has a wide knowledge of various mathematical concepts in physics as well as experience in experimental physics, having completed four experimental and computational internships at Tyndall National Institute, VULCAN Laser Research Facility, IBM Research Ireland and Quantum Motion Technologies at UCL. Tara is currently pursuing her PhD on applying Machine Learning strategies and simulating Quantum Technologies with Quantum Motion Technologies.

Doing these podcasts gives me a chance to meet some great Irish start-ups and one such start-up is ViveoAI. Based in Coleraine, ViveoAI is a voice AI receptionist built specifically for dental practices and I recently caught up with Sean Higgins the founder of ViveoAI. Sean talks about his background, what ViveoAI does, creating a clone of a voice, AI receptionists and more.
More about ViveoAI:
The focus is on helping clinics answer missed calls, handle routine patient enquiries, and support appointment booking, rescheduling and cancellation workflows. Building the system around UK and Irish dental practices specifically, rather than using a generic US-style AI receptionist.
This means local accents, Irish and UK phraseology, dental terminology, practice-specific workflows, and the kind of patient language people actually use when calling a clinic.
As AI has to be deployed responsibly in healthcare settings and because dental practices handle sensitive patient information, there is a careful GDPR tightrope to walk. This ensures ViveoAI has to be useful, while also being tightly bounded, transparent, and clearly administrative rather than clinical. You can find more info on LinkedIn.

In this week’s One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau hosts Kathryn Outlaw, Co-Founder and COO of Spheros, a B2B SaaS platform that aims to unify client data into a single source of truth, enabling accurate, consented data sharing and supporting reliable AI agents. Kathryn talks about her entrepreneurial journey, the inspiration behind the startup, and the goal of making Spheros as essential as DocuSign for on-boarding.

💬Hot take:  ”Banks don't have a data scarcity problem. They have a data comprehension problem.” 

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Keywords: Fintech, Financial Services, Data, Banking Industry 

Timestamp:
00:00 Welcome And Guest Intro
01:27 From Banking To Startup
04:06 Why Spheros Exists
07:58 Agents And Data Consent
10:30 Open Banking Pathways
15:31 Founder Lessons Learned
17:01 Defining Success Ahead

More about our guest 
🌐Kathryn Outlaw on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynoutlaw/ 

More about our host and One Vision Podcast 
🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 
🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 
🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 
🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision

Here at Irish Tech News we love meeting and introducing new Irish startups to our readers and podcast listeners. One such startup is SelenaVoice AI  that builds custom AI phone receptionists for Irish service businesses. I recently caught up with Jack Power the founder of SelenaVoice AI.
Jack talks about his background, what SelenaVoice AI does, coming up with SelenaVoice AI, guardrails, future plans, and more.
More about Jack Power:
Jack Power is a 20 year old entrepreneur from Co. Meath, currently studying Digital Business and Innovation at DCU while building SelenaVoice AI. After a business partnership collapsed and cost him every client he’d built, Jack started again from scratch under his own name. 
SelenaVoice AI builds custom AI phone receptionists for Irish service businesses, helping eliminate interruptions and stop them losing money to missed calls. Available and answering 24/7, so no lead is ever lost. Jack documents the journey daily on TikTok and Instagram.