Who we work with — Retail & e-commerce

Retail AI that survives peak season.

Catalogues that clean themselves, demand you can actually plan around, search that understands what a shopper means, and support that knows the order it's talking about. Built into the stack you already run — Shopify or your storefront, your ERP, marketplaces and 3PL — and engineered to stay accurate through peak, with a person on the calls that carry real money.

Best forRetailers, e-commerce & omnichannel brands
Where AI helpsCatalogue, forecasting, search, support, returns
Built forAccuracy, your stack, human-owned calls
Works withShopify, ERP, PIM, marketplaces, 3PL/WMS
Why retail

Retail punishes AI that only works in the demo.

A model that's confidently wrong about stock, price or a customer's order doesn't save time — it manufactures refunds, angry tickets and a manual clean-up on your busiest day.

So we build the opposite. Forecasts and answers are grounded in your own data — the live catalogue, the actual order, the current stock position — and wired into the systems you already run: your storefront, ERP, PIM, marketplaces and 3PL. No parallel spreadsheet to maintain, and every output traceable back to the record it came from.

Where a decision moves money — a price change, a markdown, a bulk reorder, a refund — a person stays in control and the AI does the reading, drafting and sorting underneath them. And because retail traffic isn't flat, we engineer for the peak, not the average, and monitor it so it still works the week after launch, not just on demo day.

What we build

Five places AI earns its keep.

Real AI solutions for your operation, built into the tools you already run.

Catalogue

Product content & catalogue enrichment

Supplier feeds, spec sheets and product images read and turned into clean, structured catalogue data — attributes, variants and categories mapped to your own taxonomy. It drafts titles, descriptions and metadata in your brand voice, dedupes near-identical SKUs, and flags the gaps a merchandiser should fill. Every attribute stays traceable back to the source it came from.

Forecasting

Demand forecasting & replenishment

SKU- and location-level demand forecasts that account for seasonality, promotions and the launch you have coming, turned into reorder points, size curves and allocation suggestions. It surfaces the lines about to stock out and the stock about to age, and proposes the markdown before it's too late. A buyer reviews and decides — the model does the arithmetic, not the gambling.

Search & merch

On-site search, merchandising & recommendations

Search that understands "waterproof jacket under £100" rather than matching keywords, with typo and synonym handling built in. Recommendations and category ordering personalised to what a shopper is actually doing, wired into your storefront and analytics. You keep the merchandising rules; the model does the ranking underneath them.

Assistants

Support & post-purchase assistants

Assistants grounded in the customer's own orders, shipping status, returns and your policy docs — so "where's my order?", a return or a sizing question gets a real answer, not a guess. When something is out of scope or high-stakes, it hands off to an agent with the full context attached. Each conversation is scoped to one customer's data, and every answer is inspectable.

Returns & margin

Returns, reviews & order reconciliation

Free-text return reasons and product reviews read into structured themes, so a defect or sizing problem shows up as a pattern instead of a hunch. Marketplace and 3PL payouts reconciled against your orders to catch the fees, short-payments and chargebacks that quietly erode margin. Exceptions are surfaced for a person to action, with the underlying records linked.

Where to start

Not sure which fits?

Start with a short assessment. We map where AI pays off first in your operation, before you commit. See the assessment →

Proven, not theoretical

The same discipline, already in production.

We don't only describe this. We run it.

In production

A document-to-report pipeline, live today

Reef runs a production system for an accounting firm that reads documents from email and WhatsApp and assembles a structured monthly report per client, across dozens of clients. See how it works →

Why it matters for retail

Peak is where demos break.

The engineering that keeps AI accurate and running under load — source-linked outputs, a person on the calls that move money, and monitoring for real traffic — is exactly what retail needs when the season spikes.

Questions

What teams ask us.

Where does our customer and order data go?

Into your environment, not ours to keep. We build inside your cloud or a tenant you control, minimise the personal data a workflow touches, and don't hand your catalogue or customers to a third party to train on. Access is scoped, so an assistant only ever sees the one customer or order it's answering about.

Will it work with Shopify, our ERP and our marketplaces?

Yes — integration is the point, not an afterthought. We connect through the APIs, PIM, WMS and marketplace feeds you already have, so the AI reads and writes to your live systems rather than living in a separate tool. No rip-and-replace, and no asking your team to key data twice.

Does this replace our merchandisers or support team?

No. It takes the repetitive load — enriching listings, chasing stock signals, answering "where's my order?" — off their plate so they spend time on buying decisions, brand and the customers who need a human. The judgement calls stay with your people; the model just clears the queue in front of them.

Where should we start?

One high-volume workflow you can measure — catalogue enrichment, WISMO tickets, or forecasting for a category that keeps stocking out. We ship that into production, prove it holds up under real traffic, then widen from a system that's already earning, rather than a big-bang rollout that stalls.

See it on your own catalogue and orders.

Book a strategy call Thirty minutes, no slides — bring one workflow that buckles at peak and we'll tell you honestly what AI can take off your team, and what it can't.