Merchandising that keeps up with the store

The featured collection still promoting a sold-out product. The bestseller buried on page four because the sort order was set by hand in March. Merchandising decays without anyone deciding anything.

Merchandising is a stream of small decisions — what leads each collection, what gets featured, what gets promoted when — and each one is individually too small to schedule a meeting about. So they get made once and then drift. Builder and Analyst run this as a rules-plus-evidence system: you set the strategy, the agents keep every placement consistent with it as stock and performance change daily.

What gets automated

The mechanical layer of merchandising — the part where the right answer is derivable from current data — moves to the agents. The strategic layer stays yours.

  • Collection ordering tied to availability, margin, and conversion performance

  • Sold-out items automatically demoted, with substitutes surfaced

  • Featured placements rotated on performance rather than recency of upload

  • Seasonal and campaign merchandising switched on schedule, and switched back

Rules you set, evidence they apply

This is not a black box deciding what your store promotes. You define the strategy — new arrivals lead in these collections, margin is weighted this way, these brands anchor these pages — and the agents apply it against live data, logging every reordering with its reason.

The compound effect of small corrections

No single merchandising correction is dramatic. Their absence is: dead products absorbing prime placement, strong products invisible, promotions running past their sell-by date. Continuous small corrections is exactly the workload agents are suited to and humans are not.

How it works

01

Encode the strategy

Your merchandising rules — what leads, what is weighted, what anchors — are written down as policy.

02

Agents apply it daily

Ordering and placements are adjusted against live stock and performance, within the policy.

03

Review the log

Every change carries its reason, so you can audit the system’s choices and tighten the policy.

What you get

  • No sold-out products holding featured placements

  • Collection order reflecting current performance, not a manual sort from months ago

  • Campaign merchandising that switches off on time

  • A log of every placement change and the rule that caused it

Frequently asked questions

Do I lose control of what my store promotes?

No — the opposite. The rules are yours and explicit, where before they were implicit and applied inconsistently. Anything outside policy still comes to you.

Can certain products be pinned?

Yes. Pinned placements, brand anchors, and contractual positions are constraints the automation works around, not against.

How does it decide what "performing" means?

By the weighting you choose — conversion, revenue, margin, inventory pressure — rather than a fixed definition. Different stores legitimately weight these differently.

Does this work outside Shopify?

Yes, wherever collection ordering and placements are programmatically controllable — including headless builds, where it works through your normal deploy path.

Put the team to work on your store

Connect your storefront, analytics, and email stack, set a goal, and let the agents run the work end to end. Start on the free plan with your own model key.