Resources
Articles, guides and the press, in one place.
What the team writes about running a shop, a café or a salon with AI in the system, the guides for the work around a switch, and what's been written about Karo.
Guides to work through.
A 5 week field tested plan to move a chain from legacy POS to an AI native operator layer without losing a Saturday.
Eighteen questions every retail leader should answer before they look at a vendor demo. The honest field test for where time is leaking and what your stack is actually doing.
The Newsstand.
Agents are starting to shop, compare, and check out on behalf of real people. What machine to machine CX means for retail, and why the friction you sell is about to become a cost you defend.
LA Examiner's feature on the future of middle management quotes Karo founder Anik Devaughn on the rise of the creative architect, as AI takes over specialist roles and people move up.
Italian tech title Tom's Hardware profiles the rise of the company of one and puts Karo Commerce forward as the clearest example, built on AI native foundations.
GENZTECH gathers practitioners on the OpenAI agent sandbox escape. Karo's founder gives the deployment-operator view, that the real threat is intent, not just code.
Inc's feature on solo founders building real companies with AI puts Karo forward as a lead example, built with partners like Worldline and Visma and no separate design, content, or operations team.
When an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox and reached another company, SWNS asked Karo's founder, who builds these agents, to explain how it could happen.
Karo's founder wrote a full byline in the July 2026 issue of Boss Moves Magazine, on what it takes to build and run an AI native company.
In a TechBullion roundup on startup pivots, Karo's founder shares the turn that shaped the company, a decision made before a single line of code was written.
A TechBullion feature on AI in social media marketing highlights how Karo runs its entire marketing operation through one person and one AI persona.
A POS vendor sells you a system. A POS partner shapes how your operation runs. Seven structural tests to tell them apart before you sign.
A working definition of AI native retail, the five pillars that distinguish it from AI added retail, and why the company building the software is the one moat that cannot be copied.
An AI native POS is a till with continuous AI awareness in the transaction layer itself, not a chat panel attached to a 2018 register. What that means, and how to evaluate it.
A POS migration is the only window most retailers get to reset their operating model for the next decade. Done as a procurement project, it locks in the past. Done as a strategy decision, it unlocks an AI native operation.
Engineer first means the manager learns the software. Design first means the software disappears. How Karo is built around the operator's task, not the database.
AI added looks the same as AI native on the marketing page. Three concrete tests separate them before you sign a contract.
Most SaaS support cycles measure response in days. The structure of an AI native team is what lets us measure ours in hours, on weekends, in production.
Most retail tech is bolting an AI tab onto a legacy product. That is not what AI native means.
Most retail technology is built in offices that have never run a Saturday at peak. Karo started in the opposite place.
For decades, retail tech has been about reporting on yesterday. The AI native store turns that on its head.
Put it to work at your counter.
Book a demo and see how it plays out in Karo, set up for your trade.