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The Agentic Economy Is Here: What Agent-to-Agent Payments Mean for Independent Professionals

AI agents are starting to pay each other — directly, in real time, without a human approving each transaction. Visa, Google, AWS, and Stripe are all building the infrastructure for it right now. This is called the agentic economy, and it's going to hit independent professionals before most people see it coming. Here's what it means, how it works, and why SHIFT is already positioned for it.