21/04/2026
By 2028, Gartner expects 90% of B2B buying to be intermediated by AI agents — over $15 trillion flowing through agent-to-agent exchanges.
Every partner program built for humans-at-a-portal is about to be invisible to the agents doing the buying.
Three open protocols are quietly becoming the plumbing of the next B2B cycle:
• MCP — how an agent reaches into a tool or platform
• A2A — how agents discover and talk to each other
• AP2 — how agents authorize payments between themselves
Read why AI-native PRM matters this quarter — and what partner leaders should do about it:
https://leadfellow.com/the-agentic-economy-why-b2b-partnerships-need-ai-native-prm/
By 2028, 90% of B2B buying will be AI-agent intermediated. Traditional PRM cannot survive the agentic economy — here is what AI-native PRM actually looks like and why partner leaders must pick tools that MCP, A2A, and AP2 agents can reach.