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AI Best Practices

Built from the definitive book on artificial intelligence in commerce — this platform distills 520 proven use cases, value chain frameworks, technology landscapes, and adoption guidance into a single actionable reference for commerce leaders and practitioners.

AI platforms expand commerce capabilities through new partnerships

OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT with Business Hub and Agents

OpenAI is rolling out Businesses in ChatGPT, letting companies claim their profiles, manage information, and launch Business Agents to interact directly with ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users. For ecommerce and online service businesses, this creates a new direct-to-consumer channel that surfaces up-to-date product data and enables personalized conversations at discovery moments.

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AI platforms expand commerce capabilities through new partnerships

commercetools launches Labs for experimental AI and commerce extensions

commercetools has launched Labs, a public platform offering free experimental projects, prototypes, and integrations—including a headless CMS and TikTok Shop connector—that customers and partners can clone, modify, and deploy. For commerce teams, Labs accelerates innovation cycles by making AI-assisted prototypes and extensions immediately available, reducing time-to-value from quarters to days.

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Amazon transforms shopping with AI agents and smart tech

Amazon launches text-to-shop feature for Alexa for Shopping

Amazon is rolling out text-to-shop functionality for Alexa for Shopping to select U.S. customers, with broader availability planned in the coming weeks. The feature lets shoppers add items to carts, complete purchases, and track deals via text—marking Amazon's push to position its own AI agent as the primary shopping tool rather than ceding purchasing control to third-party AI systems.

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What's Inside:

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Value Chains

AI mapped across the 4 stages of commerce — market, sell, fulfill, support — with capability fit and adoption priority for each.

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Use Cases

520+ filterable, citation-ready use cases by value chain and maturity — find what fits your roadmap in minutes.

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AI Tools

1233 AI tools mapped to commerce capabilities — narrow to a shortlist by stage, fit, and maturity before you talk to sales.

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AI Overview

Executive briefing on AI in commerce — transformation, roadmap, data foundations, and the human dimension in one read.

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Implementation & Adoption

Implementation framework — phase-by-phase guidance to operationalize AI across your commerce org.

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Technology Overview

The AI stack — LLMs, embeddings, RAG, agents — mapped to platforms and the capabilities they unlock.

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Glossary

208 commerce-AI terms, vendor-neutral and optimized for team alignment and LLM retrieval.

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From Strategy to Execution: AI in Commerce

The commerce landscape is being reshaped by artificial intelligence — and the organizations that move with clarity and strategy will define the next decade of retail and digital commerce. This platform is the digital companion to AI Best Practices for Commerce, the definitive book written by practitioners with decades of hands-on commerce transformation experience.

Here you'll find 520 documented use cases mapped to the commerce value chain, strategic frameworks for adoption and implementation, an AI technology landscape segmented by commerce capability, standardized terminology for teams and systems, and actionable guidance to move from AI ambition to grounded execution — all in one structured, practitioner-grade reference.

AI Best Practices