The promotion went to everyone. The fraud alert came after the parcel shipped.
A retailer sends the same 20% code to its entire list. It discounts the customers who would have paid full price and barely moves the ones who needed a reason to buy. The same week, a fraudulent order clears checkout, gets picked, packed, and shipped, and the chargeback lands three weeks later.
Both problems share one root cause. The signal that would have caught them, the customer's real purchase pattern, the order's fraud risk, was already sitting in the transaction data. Nobody acted on it in time.
The data was there. The decision came too late.
The data most e-commerce businesses need to improve personalisation, reduce inventory waste, and retain customers already exists in their transaction history, customer records, and product catalogue. The gap is between collecting that data and using it in real-time decisions. AI closes that gap.
According to McKinsey, personalisation can lift e-commerce revenue by 10 to 15% and reduce customer acquisition costs by up to 50%. For retailers and DTC brands, that uplift comes almost entirely from making better use of transaction data they already hold.
We have shipped 20+ AI products across industries in the last 24 months and 100+ products across 9 years, rated 4.9/5 by clients on Clutch, for clients including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Aldi, Nike, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin. Recent e-commerce work: a B2B food order platform whose revenue tripled in its first year with zero order errors, a TikTok-style social commerce app that lifted creator revenue 25% within three months, and a referral and loyalty platform that drove a 250% sales lift in 14 weeks. The team that scopes your build ships it: the same people who assess your data and define the outcome metric in week one deliver it in production, with GDPR and PCI-DSS scoped from the start rather than retrofitted before launch.
This pays off when the signal is already in your data.
Everything on the left should already be true for your operation. Even one thing on the right, and a discovery conversation is the smarter first step.
A fitEnough transaction history, customer records, and catalogue data for a model to learn from, not a pre-launch store.
A specific revenue or cost metric you want to move: basket size, churn rate, stockout rate, or fraud losses.
An e-commerce platform, marketplace, or OMS to integrate against, from Shopify or WooCommerce to your own system.
Not a fitA new store with little transaction history for a model to train on.
You want an off-the-shelf plugin, not a system scoped against your own data.
No single outcome metric in mind, so there is nothing to measure the build against.
What we build
What we build
01Personalised product recommendations
Recommendation models trained on your transaction history that predict next-purchase, cross-sell, upsell, and replenishment for each customer, using collaborative filtering alongside content-based filtering. Output feeds your recommendation widgets, email selections, and retargeting campaigns, updated on a rolling schedule as new transactions come in rather than a static list applied to everyone.
Pricing models that respond to demand signals, inventory levels, and competitor pricing within your defined price floors and margin rules. Learns price elasticity per product from your conversion and revenue history and recommends prices that maximise revenue or margin, with full explainability so your team understands each recommendation.
SKU-level demand forecasts trained on your sales history, promotional calendars, and external signals, built with LightGBM, XGBoost, and time-series models. New products cold-start from category-level signals rather than defaulting to zero, and output is a point forecast plus confidence interval per SKU per period that feeds replenishment and purchasing. Reduces both overstock carrying costs and lost sales from stockouts.
04Customer churn prediction
Classification models trained on your customer transaction history that score each customer by churn probability, using RFM features, gradient boosting, and survival analysis over purchase frequency trend, inter-purchase interval, basket value trajectory, and category engagement. High-risk customers enter a retention workflow before they stop buying, with interventions proportionate to predicted lifetime value and promotional spend suppressed for low-risk customers.
05AI search and discovery
Search that returns relevant results even when customer query language doesn't match product attribute text, using vector embeddings and semantic search. Trained on your query-click-purchase data to learn which products customers actually buy per term, with personalised ranking for returning customers and autocomplete powered by high-conversion search patterns.
06Review sentiment analysis
Models that process customer reviews, support tickets, and return reasons into structured sentiment signals using NLP and topic modelling across Bazaarvoice, Yotpo, and Trustpilot: which products generate complaints, which complaints are trending, and which attributes drive dissatisfaction. Alerts fire when a negative theme crosses a volume threshold. A continuous signal, not a quarterly star-rating average.
07Voice AI for order status, returns, and cart recovery
Voice agents built on Deepgram and GPT-4o that authenticate the caller by phone number or order ID, query the order management system in real time, and resolve order status, returns, and availability questions end to end, no human escalation. Outbound cart-recovery calls reference the specific items left behind and route interested customers to checkout by SMS. Retailers deploying voice AI typically handle 55 to 75 percent of inbound contact volume without escalation, with recovery rates on abandoned-cart outreach in the 8 to 15 percent range.
We build fraud detection models for e-commerce transactions that score each order by fraud probability using card data, device fingerprint, order characteristics, and velocity signals. High-risk orders are flagged for review before fulfilment. Trained on your historical transaction and chargeback data. Reduces chargeback rates without increasing false declines on legitimate orders. For marketplace operators, the same model architecture also detects seller-side fraud patterns such as fake reviews and listing manipulation.
Which e-commerce metric do you want AI to move?
Basket size, churn rate, stockout rate, or fraud losses: tell us the number and we will assess which AI system addresses it and what it costs to build against your data.
How it works
From scope to shipped
Every engagement follows the same four phases. Scope is locked and price is fixed before development starts.
- Week 1
01Discover and scope
We map your transaction data, customer records, and the specific revenue or cost outcome you want AI to move. You leave week 1 with a written scope document and a fixed-price quote. No development starts without your sign-off.
- Weeks 2-3
02Prototype and validate
We build a working prototype against a sample of your data and validate the model's accuracy before committing to a full build. Design decisions made here cost a fraction of the same decisions made mid-sprint.
- Weeks 4-12
03Build, integrate, and QA
Working AI system at a staging URL by the end of sprint one. Bi-weekly demos with your team. QA runs in parallel with every sprint, not as a phase at the end. API integration with your e-commerce platform runs alongside the model build.
- Weeks 12+
04Deploy and monitor
Production deployment with monitoring and alerting activated on launch day. Model performance tracked against the outcome metric from week 1. 8 weeks of post-launch support included in every project.
Where you land in that range depends on scope, not negotiation:
- Single AI capability, $30,000-$80,000
- A churn prediction model or demand forecasting layer, scoped, built, and deployed in 10 to 14 weeks.
- Multi-capability engagement, 16 to 20 weeks
- Recommendations, dynamic pricing, and fraud detection together. A larger engagement, scoped and quoted in the fixed-price discovery phase before development begins.
What it costs
AI for e-commerce, fixed price, scoped before we start.
A working system at a staging URL by the end of sprint one, then a production build with the integrations and monitoring it needs to move your metric.
$30,000-$80,000Single-capability builds, fixed after a fixed-price discovery phase. Multi-capability engagements are a larger scope, quoted before development starts.
Every project starts with a fixed-price discovery phase. You know the cost before any code is written.
Fixed price
We map your data, define the outcome metric, and lock the cost in writing before any development starts. A scope change is a priced change request, never an absorbed cost on the final invoice.
See it early
A working system at a staging URL by the end of sprint one, usually 2 to 3 weeks in, so you can adjust scope before the build is complete. 8 weeks of post-launch support included in every project.