Practical guide for product SMBs selling on Shopify
AI-assisted shopping explained
For ops leaders and founders at growing product brands. How AI-assisted shopping works today and a practical plan you can use without rebuilding your setup.
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Your guide to selling through AI assistants
In this guide you’ll learn:
- Agentic Commerce 101 – Where it shows up and how it works
- What changes in buyer behavior – How AI tools shorten the path from discovery to checkout
- How to prepare for Agentic Commerce – The prep plan to make your inventory and your business AI-ready.
About the guide
What AI-assisted shopping means for product brands
Buying is starting to happen without browsing. Customers ask AI tools for options, get a shortlist, and move into checkout with fewer steps. That changes how products get discovered and puts more weight on product data, availability, and fulfillment staying dependable.
How does agentic commerce work?
AI shopping tools don’t browse the way people do. They use product data and availability signals to decide what to recommend.
In this guide, you’ll learn how agentic commerce works, how AI tools decide what to surface, and why inventory accuracy and consistency matter more when buying moves faster.
How is buyer behavior changing?
Buyers reach your products later in the decision process, often after an AI tool has narrowed the options. More comparison happens in the AI surface, then shoppers land on a product page or go straight to checkout.
This guide explains what’s changing in buyer behavior, how intent shows up differently, and why brands are seeing fewer steps – but higher stakes – between interest and purchase.
How can you prepare for agentic commerce?
Agentic commerce adds a new buying path on top of the channels you already run.
This guide walks through what teams need to tighten first, starting with sellable stock rules. It also covers location-level accuracy and clean handoffs into fulfillment partners.
Katana Cloud Inventory
Turn AI shopping interest into shipped orders
Now is the right time to claim a spot in AI recommendations. Early days reward brands that can fulfill, and for SMBs that starts with real-time inventory accuracy.
Keep availability dependable over time to stay discoverable and grow sales. Katana acts as the inventory truth layer behind that availability, with multi-location inventory control and traceable stock movements. Easily connect to the rest of your stack through apps and implementation partners.
