Omar Qari on Why Logicbroker Revived Connected Commerce In 2026

Logicbroker brought back Connected Commerce this year, set up outside Central Park, because the conversations the team has been having with customers couldn't wait for the usual conference cycle. The pace of change forced the issue.Rick Watson had the opportunity to speak with Logicbroker CEO Omar Qari at the event.The dominant theme was the agentic shift, and it landed in a specific way for LogicBroker. They sit as the connective tissue between retailers and suppliers, which turns out to be exactly where LLMs are now hunting for product data. The network already has what the models want.A few other things the room kept circling back to. Most AI experiments fail, and attendees were comfortable saying so. One real win out of twenty counts as a strong batting average when the work is closer to science than to product launches. The shape of leadership came up too: the people running companies in this next stretch will need to build things, not just manage the people building things. Omar walked through his own setup, including Claude, a Slack bot he named Omar GPT, and a contract lifecycle tool he wired together himself instead of buying.