Carlos Martínez Barriga
Founder & CEO at Epinium
Carlos Martínez has over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience developing exclusive solutions for brands and manufacturers, placing Agentic Artificial Intelligence at the core of his value proposition. His comprehensive ecosystem for scaling global businesses is completed by firms such as Roicos, Datali Group, and Accountali, and he actively fosters the industry's community by organizing the FBAshow event and sharing insights on the Retail Forward Podcast.
555 articles · Writing since 2018
Areas of expertise
- Amazon PPC
- Amazon SEO
- Amazon advertising
- Retail media
- Marketplace optimization
- Agentic AI for e-commerce
- Product listing optimization
- E-commerce growth
- Amazon FBA
Highlights
- Organizer of FBAshow
- Host of the Retail Forward Podcast
- 10+ years of entrepreneurial experience
Articles by Carlos Martínez Barriga
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EcommerceGitHub Copilot’s $750 Bill: The End of Flat-Fee AI Tools
Executive Summary The fact: GitHub Copilot’s flat subscription model ended today, June 1, 2026. Chat, agentic workflows, and code review are now metered by token — code completions alone remain unlimited. The impact: Developers are reporting projected monthly costs jumping … Read More
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AI StrategyForward Deployed Software Engineer: The Buyer’s Guide
TL;DR — Key takeaways 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable P&L impact — the top cause is last-mile integration, not model quality. A forward deployed software engineer fixes this by working embedded inside the client’s actual … Read More
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EcommerceAmazon Is Licensing Its $12 Billion AI Shopping Engine to Your Competitors
Executive Summary Fact: Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping — which replaced Rufus in May 2026 — drove $12 billion in incremental sales on Amazon.com last year. AWS is now licensing the same technology to any retailer willing to pay for it. … Read More
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EcommerceAmazon and OpenAI: What Every Brand Selling on the Platform Needs to Know
TL;DR — Key takeaways Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI in February 2026 and is building customized AI models that will directly shape how products are found, ranked, and purchased on the platform. OpenAI’s Stateful Runtime Environment on Amazon Bedrock … Read More
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EcommerceAmazon OpenAI Partnership: What the $50B Deal Means for Your Brand
TL;DR — Key takeaways Amazon invested $50B in OpenAI (February 2026) — but simultaneously blocks ChatGPT shopping agents from accessing Amazon.com. The deal is infrastructure, not a consumer alliance. Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus, renamed May 13 2026) reaches 300M+ … Read More
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EcommercePinterest Gutted a Frontier Model and Saved 90% in AI Costs
Fact: Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal replaced Qwen3-VL’s native vision encoder with PinCLIP — proprietary multimodal embeddings — cutting AI inference costs by 90% and boosting recommendation accuracy by 30% while serving 620 million monthly users. Impact: The move closes a … Read More
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AI StrategyAI Implementation Engineer: What Brands Actually Need
TL;DR — Key takeaways 67% of enterprise AI implementations fail to scale beyond a proof-of-concept — the bottleneck is almost never model quality, it’s integration (Gartner, 2025). An AI implementation engineer is not a generic AI engineer: the role sits … Read More
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AI StrategyAgentic Commerce: The Full Commerce Framework for Brand Leaders
TL;DR — Key takeaways AI-referred traffic to US retail sites grew 805% year-over-year on Black Friday 2025 — agentic commerce is not a forecast, it is operational today. Two protocols are live: OpenAI + Stripe’s ACP (September 2025) and Google’s … Read More
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EcommerceAt $965B, Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI and Ships 1,000-Subagent Workflows
Executive summary Fact: Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation on May 28 — the largest private AI fundraise on record, overtaking OpenAI’s most recent $852 billion figure. Impact: With $47 billion in annualised … Read More
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EcommerceAgentic Commerce Strategy: The Brand Leader’s Playbook
TL;DR — Key takeaways AI agents already execute autonomous purchases — Walmart’s Sparky lifted orders 35% in early 2026, not through recommendations but through completed transactions. Fewer than 20% of brand SKUs pass a basic agent readability check on first … Read More
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AI StrategyAgentic Commerce: How Brands Get Chosen by AI Agents
TL;DR — Key takeaways AI agents placed $20.57 billion in US retail orders in 2026 — nearly 4x the 2025 figure. The shift is live, not projected. Agents don’t browse. They score. If your catalog, pricing, fulfillment signals, and review … Read More
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EcommerceAmerica’s Strongest AI Safety Bill Just Passed. Are Your Vendors Ready?
Fact: Illinois passed SB 315 on a 110-0 House vote — the first US law to require annual independent third-party safety audits of frontier AI developers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Impact: By 2028, every major AI model provider must … Read More
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