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AI for e-commerce and retail

AI answers order questions, keeps stock and product pages in order and reports on what your ads actually sell, so a small team can run a bigger store.

use cases
29
tools
8

known issues

Where the time goes today

  1. Order status emails fill the support inbox every morning.

  2. Best sellers run out while slow lines tie up cash in the warehouse.

  3. Product descriptions and SEO pages fall behind new arrivals.

  4. Ad spend is split across Meta, Google and email with no single view of what pays back.

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Top use cases

The jobs we would usually look at first for e-commerce and retail, best first.

  • Customer service

    Email and chat support agent

    An AI agent answers routine customer emails and chats from your help docs and order data, then hands anything unusual to your team with notes.

    Voice/chat agent
  • Operations

    Stock and reorder alerts

    Watches stock levels and sales across your channels, warns you before items run out and drafts reorders that take lead times into account.

    Automation
  • Customer service

    Returns and refund handling

    Return requests are checked against your policy and the order, labels and refunds are prepared, and only the edge cases reach your team.

    Agent
  • Marketing

    Product descriptions and catalogue enrichment

    Supplier spec sheets and rough product data become complete listings: titles, descriptions, attributes and tags, ready for your store and marketplaces.

    Automation
  • Marketing

    Cross-channel campaign reporting

    Pulls results from Google Ads, Meta Ads, GA4 and your store or CRM into one weekly report that says, in plain words, what worked and what to change.

    Automation
  • Marketing

    SEO page creation and refresh

    Finds the search terms your customers use, drafts new service and location pages, and refreshes old pages that are slipping, all from your own facts.

    Agent
  • Customer service

    Review replies drafted for approval

    Drafts a personal reply to every new Google, Tripadvisor or Trustpilot review, so the owner can check and post them in a few minutes a day.

    Agent

22 more entries

More use cases for e-commerce and retail

  • Sales

    Renewal and upsell alerts

    Watches usage, billing and support history to warn account managers about renewals at risk and customers ready for more, with a drafted next step.

    Agent
  • Marketing

    On-brand content drafts

    Drafts emails, social posts and blog outlines that follow your brand guide, product facts and past best work, so the team edits instead of starting blank.

    Company assistant
  • Marketing

    Competitor and market monitoring

    Tracks competitor pricing pages, product launches, ads and reviews, then sends a short weekly digest of what changed and why it might matter to you.

    Agent
  • Marketing

    Brand and claims checks before publishing

    Checks ads, emails and web copy against your brand rules and the advertising rules for your sector, and flags risky claims before anything goes live.

    Custom app
  • Marketing

    Social media planning and scheduling

    A month of social posts drafted from your news, offers and photos, laid out on a calendar for approval, then scheduled on each platform.

    Agent
  • Customer service

    Ticket triage and routing

    Every new ticket is tagged, prioritized and sent to the right person or queue, so urgent issues stop sitting in a shared inbox.

    Automation
  • Customer service

    Help articles written from solved tickets

    Finds questions your team answers again and again, then drafts help-center articles from the best solved tickets for an editor to approve.

    Agent
  • Customer service

    Sentiment and churn-risk alerts

    Reads support conversations for frustration and cancellation signals, and alerts the account owner while there is still time to fix things.

    Automation
  • Operations

    Order intake into the ERP

    Purchase orders that arrive by email, PDF or spreadsheet are read, checked against your catalog and entered into the ERP for a quick review.

    Automation
  • Operations

    Shipping and compliance paperwork

    Prepares commercial invoices, packing lists and customs forms from your order and product data, ready for a person to check and sign off.

    Agent
  • Finance

    Bank and payment reconciliation

    Bank lines, Stripe payouts and card settlements are matched to invoices and bills, with suggested matches and a short list of what still needs a human eye.

    Agent
  • Finance

    Weekly cash-flow forecast

    A rolling forecast of the next few months of cash, rebuilt each week from your ledger, bank and pipeline, with a short note on what changed and why.

    Custom app
  • Finance

    Purchase order and invoice matching

    Supplier invoices are matched to purchase orders and goods received, line by line, so only mismatches need a person before payment.

    Automation
  • Finance

    Supplier onboarding and bank detail checks

    New suppliers send forms, tax IDs, insurance and bank details once; everything is checked against public registers and your rules before set-up.

    Agent
  • HR and people

    Interview scheduling

    Candidates book, move or cancel interviews by email or text with an assistant that sees your interviewers' real calendars and confirms in minutes.

    Voice/chat agent
  • IT

    Incident updates

    Turns the noise in your incident channel into clear updates for staff, customers and your status page, on a steady schedule while engineers fix the issue.

    Automation
  • Legal and compliance

    Obligation and renewal tracking

    Pulls renewal dates, notice periods and key duties out of signed contracts and leases, then reminds the owner well before each deadline.

    Automation
  • Legal and compliance

    Regulatory update digests

    Watches the regulators and sources you follow, filters out what does not apply, and sends a short weekly digest linked to the policies affected.

    Automation
  • Legal and compliance

    Audit evidence collection

    Gathers screenshots, exports and sign-offs for each audit control from your systems, labels them and flags gaps before the auditor asks.

    Agent
  • Leadership

    Daily business brief across systems

    Each morning, AI pulls yesterday's sales, cash, jobs and support figures from your systems into one short brief that flags what needs a decision.

    Automation
  • Leadership

    "Ask your data" KPI assistant

    Ask questions like 'Which product lines lost margin last quarter?' in Slack or Teams and get an answer from your own data, with the working shown.

    Company assistant
  • Leadership

    Market scans

    AI researches a market, competitor set or new location on request and returns a sourced summary, so you can test an idea before spending on it.

    Agent

integrations

Tools we connect to

Systems businesses like yours commonly run. Wherever it can, the AI works inside the tools your team already uses. If yours is not listed, ask: most tools with an API can be connected.

  • Shopify
  • BigCommerce
  • Klaviyo
  • Gorgias
  • Cin7
  • Meta Ads
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 4

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Working with teams in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.