A Chat With Igor Kulatov, Co-Founder And CTO Of Aurora Borealis: Five Years Running Autonomous B2B Commerce In Production
Summary
Aurora Borealis runs autonomous B2B commerce workflows that buy, sell, settle, and reconcile digital transactions without human approval in the transaction path. The interview explains how the company has operated since 2020 across software licensing, enterprise procurement, and marketplace inventory routing. It argues that agentic commerce will scale slowly because regulation, liability, and trust shape adoption more than technical capability. The piece also highlights the hardest unsolved problem: achieving atomic trade completion across two independent companies’ systems. It closes by outlining the infrastructure companies will need for software buyers, including machine-readable catalogs, programmatic negotiation, settlement, and commercial-defense controls.