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Field notes on product discovery, agentic commerce and the AI merchants can actually trust. Written by the people building it.

19 articles · Agentic Commerce · Product Discovery · Adobe Commerce · Audience Segmentation · Sales & Service Chat · Partnership
01 Why your products don't show up in AI answers Latest Data readiness · 6 min · Oct 2, 2026 02 Do you need a PIM for agentic commerce? Data readiness · 5 min · Oct 2, 2026 03 How to prepare your product data for AI shopping agents Data readiness · 7 min · Oct 2, 2026 04 Why AI gives wrong answers about your products Data readiness · 6 min · Oct 2, 2026 05 How to turn what your product experts know into data AI can use Data readiness · 6 min · Oct 2, 2026 06 BFCM Is a Product Discovery Test Too BFCM · 5 min · Sep 24, 2026 07 Does an AI shopping assistant lift conversion on Adobe Commerce? Buyer's guide · 9 min · Sep 11, 2026 08 Audience Segmentation shows its work. Your team still decides. Trust · 6 min · Sep 11, 2026 09 Can one assistant handle sales and support for a regulated or high-consideration catalog? Regulated · 5 min · Aug 25, 2026 10 Do you need to replace your help desk to add an AI shopping assistant? Buyer's guide · 5 min · Aug 20, 2026 11 Why a return shouldn't need a whole new conversation Order management · 5 min · Aug 18, 2026 12 Webscale AI and Webeyez team up to catch shoppers before they leave Partnerships · 5 min · Aug 14, 2026 13 The support ticket that was actually a sale Pre-sales · 5 min · Aug 13, 2026 14 Why shoppers hate repeating themselves, and what it costs your store Continuity · 5 min · Aug 11, 2026 15 Why "no results found" is costing you shoppers who already decided to buy Site search · 6 min · Aug 7, 2026 16 Chatbot or AI shopping assistant? What actually separates them Buyer's guide · 5 min · Jul 31, 2026 17 Why B2B buyers give up on your catalog before they ever call sales B2B · 6 min · Jul 24, 2026 18 Fitment and part-number search: helping shoppers find the right fit without knowing the part number Fitment · 6 min · Jul 17, 2026 19 Why AI shopping assistants make things up, and how grounded answers fix it Trust · 5 min · Jul 10, 2026

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19 articles
A shopper at home asking an AI assistant a question on her phone
Data readiness

Why your products don't show up in AI answers

October 2, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
Fine threads of light passing through a single clear glass cube on a dark reflective surface
Data readiness

Do you need a PIM for agentic commerce?

October 2, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
Strands of light from many directions converging into one glowing cube on a dark floor
Data readiness

How to prepare your product data for AI shopping agents

October 2, 2026 · 7 min read·Adrian Luna
Spec sheet, installer notes, a return label, a product sample and an inventory tablet on a desk
Data readiness

Why AI gives wrong answers about your products

October 2, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
Forward Deployed Engineers reviewing a spec sheet and a data map with a merchant's product team
Data readiness

How to turn what your product experts know into data AI can use

October 2, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
A shopper's hands holding a phone over a table of gift catalogs and a handwritten gift list.
BFCM

BFCM Is a Product Discovery Test Too

September 24, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A shopper's hand pausing at a densely stocked shelf, searching for one specific item.
Buyer's guide

Does an AI shopping assistant lift conversion on Adobe Commerce?

September 11, 2026 · 9 min read·Adrian Luna
A marketer reviewing audience definitions on screen.
Trust

Audience Segmentation shows its work. Your team still decides.

September 11, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
A single key resting apart from a ring of many others, isolated in light.
Regulated

Can one assistant handle sales and support for a regulated or high-consideration catalog?

August 25, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A new glass entrance added onto the front of an older brick building.
Buyer's guide

Do you need to replace your help desk to add an AI shopping assistant?

August 20, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
Hands gently folding a garment back into a shipping box.
Order management

Why a return shouldn't need a whole new conversation

August 18, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
Diagram: Webeyez detects the friction signal, then the Webscale AI Shopping Assistant intervenes in the same session
Partnerships

Webscale AI and Webeyez team up to catch shoppers before they leave

August 14, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A shopper's hand holding a garment's size tag up to the light.
Pre-sales

The support ticket that was actually a sale

August 13, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A retail associate's hand gesturing helpfully while a customer, seen from behind, listens.
Continuity

Why shoppers hate repeating themselves, and what it costs your store

August 11, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A shopper's hand pausing at a densely stocked shelf, searching for one specific item.
Site search

Why "no results found" is costing you shoppers who already decided to buy

August 7, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
A single beam of light dividing a plain wall into two distinct halves.
Buyer's guide

Chatbot or AI shopping assistant? What actually separates them

July 31, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
A long warehouse aisle of high steel racking, one figure walking toward a lit doorway at the far end.
B2B

Why B2B buyers give up on your catalog before they ever call sales

July 24, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
Hands comparing a mechanical part against a torn manual page on a workbench.
Fitment

Fitment and part-number search: helping shoppers find the right fit without knowing the part number

July 17, 2026 · 6 min read·Adrian Luna
A hand tracing a line down an open reference book under warm library light.
Trust

Why AI shopping assistants make things up, and how grounded answers fix it

July 10, 2026 · 5 min read·Adrian Luna
The Chai · Issue No. 03

Nobody asked you whether you wanted to sell to agents.

Meta shipped a shopping agent, Shopify opened every store to it and Amazon shut it out. Plus UCP breaks its schemas and the labs ask to be slowed down.

  • 01Three companies decided whether your store sells to agents
  • 02UCP breaks its own schemas, then carries live checkout
  • 03Build versus buy, the trust gap and what shoppers expect agents to spend
The Chai, Issue No. 03, September 2026. Cover shows a shop door standing open at night with warm light spilling onto an empty street.
September 2026
Issue No. 03
The Chai
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Nobody asked you whether you wanted to sell to agents.
How AI is changing what gets bought and sold
UCP breaks its own schemas
Then it carries live Shopify checkout.
The trust layer got priced
Before anybody wrote the rule.