DoorDash expands access to agentic ordering for offices, corporate customers

DoorDash put its latest artificial intelligence (AI), delivery and ordering options on display at its Dash Forward event in San Francisco on Tuesday, opening up agentic ordering to workplaces for new users.

In addition to showing off new drones and its Dasher Returns services, the last-mile delivery platform and marketplace named its first corporate customers for a connector-enabled option that is intended to let companies use their internally adopted AI tools to automate ordering for use cases such as lunch catering and office supplies replenishment.

Currently, access is only available through a waitlist, but DoorDash announced that SpaceX, Cognition, Vercel, Mercor and Tempo are all early partners putting the connector to use.

How does DoorDash’s agentic ordering to offices work?

Andy Fang, co-founder and director at DoorDash, noted on stage at the DoorDash headquarters that the company launched the command line interface in beta in July, setting up capabilities that make agentic ordering to workplaces possible. He said that the beta “enables individual developers to connect DoorDash ordering capabilities to their personal agents,” creating recurring grocery orders and discovering new options according to their preferences.

“In fact, one of the biggest use cases we saw was automating their office work,” Fang stated. “And so now, to make it easier for companies to put their office orders and office supply restocks on autopilot, we’re excited to introduce the DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering.”

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, which is an open standard that lets external services connect to AI applications. DoorDash cited Slack as an example of an app where employees at an office might interact with a bot that uses the connector to place orders through DoorDash for delivery from local restaurants or merchants.

“Companies can now use it to bring agentic ordering into tools their teams are already working in, or give internal agents the ability to order through DoorDash,” he said. “And this opens up a ton of possibilities for companies to turn the tools that their teams are using every day into a way to get what they need delivered.”

Who has access to DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering?

DoorDash opened a waitlist to sign up for DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering on its developer site’s MCP page as of Sept. 30. Accepted participants gain access at the company level, with employees then required to sign in to individual DoorDash accounts to agree to terms of service and connect AI agents.

DoorDash noted that the beta is currently limited in scope as it grants companies access to place orders for their teams.

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