Why Webscale AI

Agentic transformation starts with structured data

Webscale AI gets your commerce data ready for AI agents with the Commerce Context Engine, then puts it to work on your storefront, in AI chat ads and wherever shoppers now check out.

The shift

Commerce has done this before

Digital transformation moved the store online. Agentic transformation moves the store into the conversation.

Digital transformation
A shopper at home asking an AI assistant a question on her phone Agentic transformation
A search engine or your homepageWhere shoppers startA question to an AI assistant
Keyword search and filtersHow they find productsAsking, comparing and deciding in conversation
The shopperWho does the browsingThe shopper and an AI agent acting for them
Page design and SEOWhat wins visibilityStructured data context from every source, kept live and accessible to outside agents
Your cartWhere checkout happensWherever the conversation happens

The merchants who treated digital as a website project fell behind the ones who treated it as a new way of doing business.

The same test is here again.

Checkout everywhere

Where can shoppers buy your products now?

Storefronts and marketplaces are no longer the only places a shopper can buy.

Your storefront

Shoppers browse and buy on your own site. Add the AI Shopping Assistant and they can ask, compare and buy in one conversation.

AI Shopping AssistantOn your site
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Marketplaces

Your products listed on someone else’s site.

AI assistants

Checkout inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, or an agent checks out on your site.

AI chat ads

Sponsored answers inside AI chat. Ask a question in the ad, then buy in a few taps.

AI Mode
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Ask about sizing, returns or fit…

Publishers

Buy the product while reading its review.

Publisher examples
BuzzFeedReaders buy featured products directly inside BuzzFeed articles.
The Good Face ProjectShoppers buy clean-beauty products on the site instead of being redirected to the brand.

Embedded storefronts

Your store placed inside another app or site.

Checkout follows the shopper now.

Every one of these channels reads the same product, price and inventory data.

The real blocker

Broken data blocks every agentic channel

Enterprise commerce data was built for web pages, not for AI agents. If an agent sees the wrong price or a sold-out variant, it loses the sale and learns to skip you.

66%Readable to AI
What the product page shows
The missing third: spec sheets, back-office systems and your experts

The average retail product page is only about 66% readable to AI. The missing third lives in spec sheets, back-office systems and your experts, so software that scrapes your site cannot recover it.

Adobe Digital Insights AI Visibility, Q1 2026
Spec sheet, installer notes, a return label, a product sample and an inventory tablet on a desk
Where the answer livesSpec sheets, back-office systems and your experts. Not the product page.
The solution

Two parts, working together: people who find the missing third, and an engine that keeps it live for every agent.

Forward Deployed Engineers reviewing a spec sheet and a data map with a merchant's product team
Part one

Forward Deployed Engineers

Commerce and data experts who work inside your team to find the missing third wherever it lives and map it in.

AuditCleanupMapping
Alongside your team, every phase
Part two

Commerce Context Engine

Keeps that data complete, live and model-ready for every agent, and writes orders and returns back to your systems.

CompleteLiveModel-ready
How the CCE works
Vendor-reported figures

What the market data shows

A shopper researching gear on a laptop at home
On the store you already runComplete answers, so shoppers buy the right item the first time.
01 · Returns
43%
Returned because info was wrong43%

of consumers returned a product in the past year because pre-purchase information was wrong.

Vendor reported. Akeneo, 2025 Consumer Returns Report

02 · Conversion
59%
With shopper agents6.2%
Without3.9%

faster sales growth for retailers running their own shopper agents, 6.2% against 3.9%.

Vendor reported. Salesforce, 2025 Holiday Shopping data

03 · AI chat
76%
Copilot ads1.76×
Traditional search1×

higher conversion rate for lower-funnel ads inside Microsoft Copilot than traditional search.

Vendor reported. Microsoft Advertising, Copilot ad results

The engagement

What does an agentic transformation look like?

It starts before any connection. Four phases make up the pilot. The same data layer then extends to AI chat ads and off-site checkout.

Start with a pilot
Then scale
00Discover

Learn your brand voice, interview experts and gather knowledge docs.

01Connect the CCE

A no-code install. The CCE starts pulling in data.

02Normalize data

Engineers normalize and validate your data.

03Launch on site

Your AI Shopping Assistant goes live.

04AI chat ads

Ads inside AI chat that report orders. Coming soon

05Sell everywhere

Checkout in AI assistants, publishers and marketplaces.

Forward Deployed Engineers alongside your team, every phaseYour stack stays. One commerce context alongside it, with no code and no replatforming.
Our right to win

Why this is Webscale’s work to lead

Webscale has run commerce infrastructure and data analytics in the traffic path since 2013. Agentic commerce is a data problem first, and data is where we started.

2013In the traffic path since
Infrastructure

In the traffic path since 2013

Data

First-party behavior on every session

Captured where your traffic runs, and read by the Commerce Context Engine alongside every other source.

People

Forward Deployed Engineers

Commerce data experts who do the integration and normalization work with your team.

Partner

Webeyez

Experience analytics that flag lost revenue on the storefront and trigger the assistant.

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Questions

Questions we hear

Agentic transformation is the shift that follows digital transformation. Shoppers start with a question to an AI assistant, an AI agent may browse and check out for them, and checkout happens wherever the conversation is. It depends on structured, live commerce data that outside agents can read.

Native assistants only see their own catalog. The Commerce Context Engine connects every source: PIM, ERP, CDP, reviews and your help desk.

No. Webscale AI works with Adobe Commerce, Magento, Shopify, Shopware, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and BigCommerce, on the stack you run today.

It holds a real conversation instead of following a script. One assistant handles discovery, recommendations, orders and support tickets.

It depends on your data. We launch a focused first version, then phase in more. A small merchant with a messy catalog took about eight weeks of data work.

Yes. You set the voice, the guardrails and the data sources, and you can A/B test assistants against each other.

You do. Your raw data stays yours, and it is de-identified before it reaches any language model.

We agree the metrics before launch, then compare before and after on conversion rate, return rate, ad return and new revenue.

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Next step

Start on your own storefront

Launch the AI Shopping Assistant on the store you already run. The same connection is what reaches every other channel when you are ready.