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AI agents, RAG, and integrations — notes from production.

Computer Vision for Fashion Apparel Stores: Folded Stock and Rail Density

Computer vision for an apparel store detects thin rails, gapped folded tables, and size-run holes - not the shelf gaps grocery vision is built to find.

Computer Vision for Pharmacy Shelves: Compliance and Restricted Products

Computer vision for pharmacy retail can monitor open-shelf availability and planogram compliance, but restricted and behind-counter stock needs other checks.

Shelf-Monitoring Computer Vision for Convenience Stores

Computer vision for a convenience store has to earn trust from a stretched, tiny team, with cheap edge hardware and camera placement in a cramped format.

Multilingual Product Search for a Pan-European Retailer

Multilingual product search needs a multilingual embedding model, per-language relevance tuning, and locale-correct results - not query translation bolted on.

Search for a Headless Commerce Stack: API-First Retrieval

In a headless commerce stack, search is an API the frontends call - a stable contract, edge-cached common queries, and presentation left to the client.

Personalized Search: Where Per-Shopper Ranking Starts and Stops

Personalized search splits into cheap session-context ranking and real per-shopper models - a separate feature-store system with cold-start and privacy costs.

Semantic Search for Gourmet Food and Drink: Pairing and Dietary Queries

Semantic search for gourmet food handles pairing and flavour queries, with allergen and dietary constraints kept as exact, grounded filters - not guesses.

Semantic Search for Toys: Age, Interest, and Developmental Queries

Semantic search for toys reads age, interest, and developmental intent, with age suitability and safety labelling kept as grounded filters, never guessed.

Semantic Search for Office and MRO Supplies: Reorder and Bulk Intent

Semantic search for office and MRO supplies is precision-first - reorder intent, exact matches, equivalents for discontinued items, and pack-size awareness.

Semantic Search for Automotive Retail: Vehicle, Trim, and Feature Queries

Semantic search for automotive retail treats vehicle, year, and trim as hard fitment filters, then ranks the descriptive rest - a wrong-fit part is a failure.