Machine Customers

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How AI that buys is changing everything

Katja Forbes

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Publish Central
10 December 2025

Management & management techniques; Customer services; Artificial intelligence

What if your next customer didn't have a pulse, preferences, or patience for poor performance?

In Machine Customers: The Evolution Has Begun, CX Evolutionist, Katja Forbes, reveals how intelligent agents, autonomous procurement systems, and logic-driven buying platforms are silently revolutionising commerce. This trillion-dollar transformation is happening now, not in some distant future.

Visa and Mastercard's AI agents are shopping for customers. Walmart's AI procurement makes million-dollar purchasing decisions in seconds without human intervention. Consumer advocate agents negotiate you out of your gym contracts. ChatGPT Agent will plan and book your holidays. These machine customers don't respond to emotional appeals or brand storytelling. They evaluate clear information, consistent performance, and verifiable claims faster than any human ever could.

Every business leader should be asking the same question: ""How do we stay competitive when our customers are machines?"" Forbes provides the answer. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Don Scheibenreif (Gartner's leading machine customer authority) and Bruce Temkin (creator of industry-standard CX metrics), plus experts from Salesforce, Qualtrics, and other industry leaders, this book reveals the strategic playbook early adopters are using to build competitive advantages.

The book transforms abstract concepts into Monday-morning implementation through original frameworks: the Machine Customer Experience Strategy Map, five Machine Customer types, and step-by-step guidance for redesigning customer journeys that win both human hearts and machine logic. There are 30-60-90-day plans for leaders and advice on how to set up a machine-customer experience operating system in their organisation.

Forbes shows leaders exactly how to make their businesses discoverable to AI agents, design machine-readable value propositions, navigate machine trust and ethics and build algorithmic loyalty systems that lock out competitors. More importantly, she reveals how to excel in the hybrid reality where businesses must serve both emotional humans and logical machines simultaneously.

The businesses that understand this evolution first will dominate their industries. Those that don't will become irrelevant. Forbes ensures readers will be in the first category.

By: Katja Forbes
Imprint: Publish Central
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9781923630154
ISBN 10: 1923630156
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 10 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katja Forbes is a customer experience futurist, business strategist, and keynote speaker recognised globally for her insights into the intersection of AI, design, and human behaviour. With more than 20 years' experience helping leading organisations navigate emerging technologies, she has advised global brands on experience transformation, data ethics and innovation leadership. Katja is a sought-after voice at international conferences and a passionate advocate for designing futures where technology serves both business and humanity. She divides her time between Singapore and Australia.

Reviews for Machine Customers: How AI that buys is changing everything

'A wake-up call for leaders. This book forces us to look beyond the human-only lens of customer experience and prepare for a hybrid world of people, bots, and autonomous decision-makers.' Jay Dutta, Global Head of User Experience, Deutsche Bank and Founder, DesignUp Conference - Bengaluru, India 'I absolutely love this work from Katja Forbes. She explores a key dimension of CX: What does CX look like for a Machine Customer? Since AI agents don't have emotions, the building blocks of experience will be very different. This means your approach to CX will be very different.' Don Scheibenreif, author of When Machines Become Customers and Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner - Mission Viejo, California, US 'Katja is one of the freshest, sharpest minds in the CX space.' Paula Kennedy Garcia, Chief Client Officer, UK and Ireland and Managing Director, Ireland, Capita - London, UK 'A completely novel insight into the new world we are just entering ... a world where we already anticipate humans and AI-controlled machines, but Forbes takes us to a new and surprising place: the world where intelligent machines collaborate to build a new kind of economy.' Peter Schwartz, Chief Futurist, Salesforce - San Francisco, US