An Online Shop Can Serve People and AI Helpers

AI helpers already search for products and shop on the web. But many shopping pages were designed mainly for people to read. Vercel Shop offers a different starting point for building a Shopify store. It gives people normal pages and gives AI information it can read directly. Both can use the same product address on the web. The product information includes prices, available choices, and whether items are in stock.

The store also gives AI tools a direct way to shop. They can search products, read details, and check what is available. They can put items in a cart and get a checkout link. Checkout is the final step where someone completes a purchase. These tools let AI work without moving through the website's pages. The tools are available through the store's own web address.

People can also ask a shopping assistant for help inside the store. They can ask it to find products or add items. Or they can browse the product pages in the usual way. Both ways of shopping use the same cart for their items. So changing between them does not remove what someone has already added. Teams can change the store's look and how the assistant helps people.

Vercel Shop is an open source project that teams can change. Open source means people can read and use the project's code. It uses Next.js and works with Shopify's tools for online stores. The store and its assistant stay together in the same project. Vercel used it to launch its own shop at vercel.store. There, the shopping assistant helps people find products and continue to checkout. The main idea is to support people and AI in one store.