{
  "slug": "agent-negotiated-contracts",
  "title": "Your agent agreed to the terms. Are you bound?",
  "summary": "Under ESIGN and UETA a contract your AI agent forms is usually attributed to you. The real fight is authority, and almost nobody can prove what they granted.",
  "lede": "A procurement agent negotiates a supply agreement, converges on terms, and accepts. Under the electronic transactions statutes that contract is probably yours, whether or not a human read a word of it. The interesting question is not enforceability, which is largely settled. It is whether you can prove what you actually authorised.",
  "date": "2026-09-21",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": [
    "agent negotiated contracts",
    "UETA electronic agent",
    "ESIGN",
    "apparent authority",
    "delegated authority",
    "AI procurement",
    "contract formation"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Agent%20Negotiated%20Contracts/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/agent-negotiated-contracts.html",
  "wordcount": 3976,
  "related": [
    "delegation-chain-depth",
    "authority-graph",
    "agentic-checkout-human-mandate"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}