AI Shopping Discovery Platform

An AI-powered shopping platform called Showroom that uses language models to understand brand sentiment and enable conversational product discovery across thousands of merchants and tens of millions of SKUs, focusing on fashion and luxury brands not found on Amazon.

Key Points:

• Core Technology:

  • Trained language model specifically on shopping/product dataset
  • Enables conversational product discovery across all brands
  • Understands brand sentiment beyond basic product descriptions
  • Can differentiate between similar products based on brand positioning

• Business Model:

  • Revenue share deals with merchants (5-20% depending on brand)
  • Transaction fees built into the platform
  • Focus on brands not on Amazon (luxury, DTC brands)

• Competitive Advantage:

  • Better product discovery than Google Shopping
  • More targeted than general search (vertical-specific)
  • High purchase intent vs general browsing
  • Comprehensive inventory across premium brands

• Market Opportunity:

  • Google Shopping is unusable for many merchants due to high costs
  • Merchants waste ad spend on low-intent searches
  • Premium brands need alternative to Amazon
  • AI enables better understanding of brand sentiment and product context

• Growth Strategy:

  • Already have thousands on waitlist
  • Thousands of merchants integrated
  • Focus on transaction-based revenue vs social/engagement
  • Target to reach $1B+ valuation in 5 years