Alpic

Did ski season start early? Between Paris, Amsterdam, Huntington Beach, Lisbon, and Barcelona, the Alpicools set this year's trend: ski goggles go with everything. Stage, booth, beach, laptops... it. always. fits. Don't worry, the team has more events lined up to talk AI and MCP, and keep the trend growing.

Dev Day predictions are better with friends and pizza. That's why we're teaming up with Hexa to organize a pre-OpenAI Dev Days evening. Join us to exchange predictions on announcements around some drinks. Spoilers welcome: https://luma.com/hexa-1udp

New on the Descope blog: Build Auth-Ready MCP Apps with Descope and Skybridge. If you're building an MCP App and need OAuth, this is a must-read. Point descopeProvider at your Issuer URL and you get a full OAuth authorization server. Metadata publishing, token verification, scope enforcement, all handled, no protocol plumbing required. Worth a read: https://lnkd.in/eFtM4V7s

𝗦𝗻𝗶𝗽𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜-𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 AI is becoming the front door to commerce. Today, Snipp brings promotions and loyalty into ChatGPT and Claude. We've launched the $nipp ChatGPT Plugin and $nipp Connector for Claude, bringing promotions, offers, rebates, rewards, and loyalty programs directly into AI-powered conversations, right at the moment shoppers are deciding what to buy. Built on two decades of receipt processing, purchase validation, and fraud-prevention infrastructure, $nipp lets brands make their offers discoverable with a single integration and minimal implementation. We're also launching the industry-first MCP server for shopper and loyalty marketing, extending Snipp's enterprise infrastructure into the next generation of AI applications and agents. More than 42% of U.S. consumers have used an AI tool to shop in the past month, and AI-powered shopping assistants could influence $385B in U.S. e-commerce sales by 2030. The shift is already here. 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧: https://lnkd.in/eyKUU8mA 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲: https://lnkd.in/e8zega62 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: https://lnkd.in/ebVT_xFp #AI #ShopperMarketing #Loyalty #AgenticCommerce #ChatGPT #Claude

902 talk proposals came in for E-commerce Berlin Expo. One of them is ours, and we need your vote to get it on stage! Not to add to the AI noise, but to say clearly what we're seeing: retail is shifting from living on a website to living inside the conversation a shopper is already having with an LLM or their own agent.  Retailers need to prepare for this new e-commerce era now. A vote takes 30 seconds, promised: https://lnkd.in/eYJ_B2ik Thank you 🙌

Big week for Team Alpic across Europe! Three of us are on stage in three different cities, and it represents well how fast this space is moving. 🎤 Today in Barcelona, Frédéric Barthelet, our CTO, is live-building at AI SUMMIT BARCELONA: "Cursed Apps," crafting a working app from scratch on Skybridge and stress-testing what ChatGPT Apps and Claude Connectors can actually do, and where they break. 🎤 Tonight in Lisbon, Quentin Churet speaks at Paddle's AI event on replacing Duolingo with an MCP App, an agent that actually remembers your language learning across conversations. 🎤 Thursday in Paris, Nikolay Rodionov speaks at AI Engineer on why most attempts to make software factories fully autonomous fail, and what we learned trying. Three cities, three opportunities to meet the Alpic team! Links in the first comment.

We're at RetailClub AI Festival this week, on the boardwalk in Huntington Beach! Erica Beavers, one of our co-founder, will share her insights on September 24 during the Next Wave AI session. Together with Nicholas LeComte they're in LA to help you build your AI presence for the agentic era. If you're at RetailClub September 22 to 24, DM them to schedule some time!

Skybridge v2 shipped a way to test whether the model actually calls your tool. @skybridge/test runs full conversations in-process, no HTTP server needed, and checks not just that a tool works when called directly, but that the model reaches for it on its own, with the right arguments, given a real prompt. It also covers authenticated flows: a test can claim an identity through authInfo, skip token verification, and still exercise the real per-tool scope checks. Full release notes: https://lnkd.in/eC4_NBGP Try Skybridge: npm create skybridge Julien Vallini

New opportunity to meet the Alpic team! Our co-founder and COO Nikolay Rodionov is speaking at dotConferences – AI, JS & Tech Events on September 18 in Paris. Don't miss his lightning talk: "Building ChatGPT and MCP Apps with All the Comfort of Modern TypeScript DevX," on how to ship an MCP app with all the tooling you're used to. Don't have your #DotJS ticket yet? Use code SPEAKER20 for 20% off tickets: https://www.dotjs.io

Live from NRF Retail's Big Show Europe! There's still time to meet the team to see what the shopping experience can look like when buyers ask AI assistants for advice. Look for the ski goggles in the Innovator Showcase!