Ecommerce AI Consulting - Case Study

AI Consulting Services That Helped an Online Retailer Deflect 54% of Support Contacts

How a mid-market ecommerce retailer used AI consulting, generative AI, semantic product search, and personalization to answer shopper questions instantly, help customers find products faster, enrich catalog content at scale, and increase conversion and average order value.

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Ecommerce AI Consulting Retail AI Strategy AI Product Search Personalization & Recommendations Customer Support Automation
54% Support Workload Deflected
27% Higher Search-to-Cart Conversion
62% Faster Product Content Production
19% Higher Average Order Value
Industry
Ecommerce & Retail
Organization Size
Online Retailer, 40,000+ SKUs, 2.5M Monthly Sessions
Project Type
AI Strategy, Search, Personalization & Support Automation
Platform
Azure OpenAI & Commerce Data Platform

Millions of Shopper Sessions, Products & Support Tickets — No Unified AI-Powered Commerce Intelligence

Problem Context

Repetitive Support Contacts Order-status, returns, and shipping questions flooding the support queue
Search & Discovery Friction Shoppers leaving after search results that missed what they meant
Catalog Content Backlog New and existing products waiting for descriptions and attributes

The client is an online retailer with more than 40,000 SKUs, roughly 2.5 million monthly sessions, and a growing mix of mobile and repeat customers. Growth had outpaced the team’s ability to keep search relevant, catalog content complete, and support response times low.

Teams worked across the ecommerce platform, ERP and order management, PIM, helpdesk, marketing tools, and analytics dashboards. Support agents answered the same questions repeatedly, merchandisers hand-tuned search and collections, and leaders had no unified view of what shoppers wanted but could not find.

Core Frictions

  • Keyword search failing on natural-language, misspelled, and intent-based queries
  • Support agents repeatedly answering order-status and returns questions
  • Thousands of products with thin or inconsistent descriptions and attributes
  • Cart abandonment with no personalized recovery or recommendation logic
  • Merchandising decisions based on lagging reports instead of live demand signals
  • Commerce, support, merchandising, marketing, and IT working across separate systems

AI Consulting Solutions That Turned Commerce Data Into Higher Conversion, Faster Support & Richer Product Content

JanBask designed and deployed SHOPIQ AI — an ecommerce AI solution combining semantic product search, personalized recommendations, a retrieval-augmented support assistant, generative catalog enrichment, and secure integrations with the commerce platform, ERP, and helpdesk. It helps shoppers find and buy faster, frees the support team for complex cases, and keeps merchandisers in control of the customer experience.

AI semantic product search
Personalized recommendations
Order-status & returns assistant
Catalog content generation
Commerce platform & ERP integration
Cart-recovery intelligence
Demand & merchandising signals
Answer quality monitoring
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AI Product Search & Discovery

Understands natural-language, misspelled, and intent-based queries using semantic search, so shoppers searching for “waterproof hiking jacket under $150” see relevant products instead of empty or irrelevant results.

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Personalized Recommendations

Blends browsing behavior, purchase history, and catalog relationships to recommend products on category, product, cart, and email touchpoints, lifting basket size without manual rule-building.

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Customer Support Assistant

A retrieval-augmented assistant that answers order-status, shipping, returns, and product questions using live order data and approved policies, and hands complex cases to agents with the full context summarized.

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Catalog Content Enrichment

Generates SEO-friendly product descriptions, titles, and attributes from supplier data and images, with brand-voice controls and human review, clearing the backlog of thin product pages.

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Demand & Merchandising Intelligence

Analyzes search terms, zero-result queries, conversion, and stock levels to show merchandisers which products to promote, restock, or fix before revenue is lost.

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Commerce Platform, ERP & Helpdesk Integration

Connects approved data from the ecommerce platform, ERP and order management, PIM, helpdesk, and analytics tools to create a governed AI layer across the retailer’s existing technology stack.

What AI Consulting for Ecommerce Delivered by the Numbers

Performance was measured against pre-implementation search, support, catalog, and checkout workflows, including contact deflection, search-to-cart conversion, content turnaround time, and average order value.

📈 Key Metrics

54%
Reduction in repetitive support workload
27%
Higher search-to-cart conversion
62%
Faster product content production
19%
Higher average order value

⚡ Implementation Impact

Product Page Publishing: 25 min → 9 min 64%↓
Support Contacts Deflected 54%
Grounded Answer Accuracy 95%
Search-to-Cart Conversion Lift 27%

💼 Business Outcomes

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Shoppers found relevant products faster, even with vague or misspelled searches
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Customers got instant, accurate answers about orders and returns around the clock
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New products went live with complete, search-friendly content in minutes
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Merchandisers acted on live demand signals instead of last month’s reports

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The Stack Behind SHOPIQ AI

An enterprise-grade AI and data architecture designed for ecommerce: semantic search, personalization, governed knowledge retrieval, catalog automation, secure order and customer data access, and scalable commerce operations. AI outputs were designed to support — not replace — support agents, merchandisers, and marketers, with human review on customer-facing content.

Az Azure OpenAI & Commerce Data Platform
EC Ecommerce Platform (Shopify / Adobe Commerce)
ERP ERP & Order Management System
BI Microsoft Power BI
PIM Product Information Management (PIM)
HD Helpdesk & Customer Support Platform
NLP Semantic Search & Natural Language Processing
API Secure Commerce Data APIs
Ecommerce AI consulting technology stack for AI product search, personalization, and support automation

Ecommerce AI Consulting: Frequently Asked Questions

What is ecommerce AI consulting?

Ecommerce AI consulting helps online retailers and brands find the highest-value AI opportunities, then designs, builds, and governs the solution. Common projects include AI product search, personalization, support automation, catalog content generation, and demand forecasting.

How can AI increase ecommerce conversion rates?

AI improves conversion by making search understand shopper intent, recommending relevant products at every step, and answering questions before shoppers abandon. In this case study, search-to-cart conversion rose 27% and average order value rose 19%.

Will an AI support assistant replace our customer service team?

No. It resolves repetitive questions such as order status and returns eligibility, which cut support workload by 54%, and passes complex or sensitive cases to your agents with a summarized history so they can resolve them faster.

Can AI integrate with Shopify, Adobe Commerce, or our ERP?

Yes. We integrate with leading commerce platforms, ERP and order management, PIM, and helpdesk systems through secure APIs, so the AI works with live catalog, inventory, and order data.

How long does an ecommerce AI project take?

Most retailers see a working pilot within 8–12 weeks, typically starting with search or support automation, then expanding to personalization and catalog content once results are proven.

How do you protect customer data and avoid inaccurate AI answers?

Answers are grounded in approved policies and live order data, monitored for accuracy, and escalated to humans when confidence is low. We apply role-based access, encryption, and audit logging, and customer data is never used to train public models.

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