Single API Aims to Give AI Agents Unified Access to India's Local Supply Chain

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Developers building AI agents for the Indian market face a major hurdle: local supply — including services, retail, mobility, and accommodation — is spread across dozens of fragmented provider networks, each with incompatible APIs and workflows. Unlike standard e-commerce, different categories require distinct transaction flows, such as request-for-quote for services, select-then-confirm for rides, and availability-hold for hotels. This fragmentation creates a compounding integration burden for any platform or AI agent trying to operate across multiple categories. A unified API layer proposing five core primitives — search, item selection, quote, order, and lifecycle management — aims to bridge this gap. The goal is to make AI agents capable of reliably executing real-world purchases across diverse local supply categories in India through a single, standardised interface.

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