The language of Intent Commerce.
Every discipline develops its own language. The Intent Commerce Framework is built on a small set of concepts that describe how commerce evolves through intentions, interactions and alignment. This Dictionary defines those concepts. Together, they form the shared vocabulary of Intent Commerce.
Commerce Domain
An independent participant that contributes to the commercial system.
In the Intent Commerce Framework, a Commerce Domain is an independent participant that contributes to the commercial system.
Each Commerce Domain continuously emits and interprets Commercial Signals, builds its own Representation of the commercial situation and participates in Interactions that may progressively increase Alignment.
The Framework does not prescribe which Commerce Domains exist. They emerge from the commercial situation itself.
Intent Commerce views commerce as a system rather than a transaction.
Understanding that system begins by identifying the independent domains that participate in it.
Each Commerce Domain brings its own objectives, constraints, knowledge and perspective. No single domain owns the commercial relationship; Meaningful Commerce emerges from the interactions between them.
A customer looking for a bicycle, a retailer, competing brands and the broader market each contribute different information to the same commercial situation.
The customer expresses needs and preferences.
The retailer shares availability and expertise.
The market influences prices, trends and alternatives.
Each of these is a distinct Commerce Domain participating in the same evolving system.