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Retail

+25% search conversion with semantic catalog search

Retrieval-augmented search and recommendations across a large retail product catalog.

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The problem
Keyword search returned poor matches on a large catalog, and shoppers abandoned search results without finding relevant products.
The solution
We indexed the catalog into a vector store with a re-ranking layer, serving grounded, relevance-ranked results and recommendations.
+25%
Search conversion
−35%
Query latency
100k+ SKU
Catalog coverage
Stack
pgvectorOpenAI embeddingsCohere rerankFastAPI