Cognaris · Applied Intelligence

AI Commerce. Useful first. Sells when it matters.

Your customers are already asking AI for advice, recommendations, and help deciding what to buy. Right now, the answer isn't one of your products. Cognaris AI Commerce is the genuinely useful assistant they keep opening — and when a real buying moment arrives, the answer is one of your products: in stock, one tap to basket, your brand.

1 chat Question → Basket
100% Your Catalogue
0 Leakage To Amazon
iOS · Android · Web Native Or Embedded
FreshChef · Your Supermarket
0
What's for dinner tonight?
58% of shoppers now use AI assistants when researching purchases
Most AI recommendations route to Amazon
Your site appears in 1 in 400 AI answers
Category queries lost to generic AI: billions
Own the question — own the sale
58% of shoppers now use AI assistants when researching purchases
Most AI recommendations route to Amazon
Your site appears in 1 in 400 AI answers
Category queries lost to generic AI: billions
Own the question — own the sale
The Shift

Your customers stopped browsing.
They started asking.

"Hey ChatGPT, what's the best protein powder for recovery? Add the top pick to my Amazon basket."

That question used to be a session on your website or app — search, browse, compare, add to basket. Now it's a sentence, and the answer comes from a general-purpose AI that doesn't know your brand, doesn't see your stock, and has no reason to recommend you.

Yesterday
Customer Googles the product
Lands on your site, browses catalogue
Decides, adds to basket, checks out
You own the entire journey
Today
Customer asks their AI for a recommendation
AI answers from generic training data
Link goes to whoever the AI prefers
You never saw the question
58%
of shoppers now use an AI assistant to help with purchasing decisions — and the share is climbing every quarter.
Salesforce · Connected Shoppers 2026
higher conversion when AI recommendations come from a retailer's own first-party assistant versus a generic AI.
Cognaris pilot · retail cohort, Q1 2026
£Billions
in category revenue at risk across UK retail as generic AI becomes the default discovery surface — unless brands own the conversation themselves.
IMRG · UK Digital Commerce Review
How AI Commerce Works

One conversation.
Zero browsing.
One basket.

Your customer asks a question. Our AI understands the intent, consults your live catalogue, recommends exactly the right product, and adds it to the basket — all inside your brand. No clicks to search. No comparison pages. No tab-switching.

STEP 01

Ask

In natural language or voice. "What do I cook tonight with mince?" "Fix my dripping tap." "Best running shoes for a marathon?"

STEP 02

Understand

Your AI reads the real intent, the customer's history, the context. It thinks like your best in-store expert — not a generic chatbot.

STEP 03

Recommend

From your live catalogue — real-time stock, nearest store, personalised. Not generic advice followed by a search — the actual product, ready to buy.

STEP 04

Checkout

One tap adds to basket. Click & collect, home delivery, reserve in-store. The whole journey happens inside your app — your brand, your sale.

The commerce moment

The world's best salesperson isn't the one with the best pitch.
It's the one standing next to the customer when they ask the question.

— why first-party AI commerce changes the game
Complete Demonstrator · By Request
See It For Yourself

The pitch is nice.
The product is better.

We've built a complete AI Commerce demonstrator — every capability in one working example. Conversational shopping. Live catalogue and stock. One-tap basket. Voice-first and hands-free. And AI vision with virtual try-on — because in more and more categories, the customer wants to see it on themselves before they buy.

Every recipe is grounded in real cookbooks — not hallucinated by a model. The same grounding discipline applies to your catalogue, your guidance, your expertise. Trust is a build decision.

The shop-front is a supermarket (FreshChef) — but the engine underneath is the same one we'd build for fashion, sport, home, automotive, or any category where your customers ask a question before they buy.

FreshChef AI

Complete AI Commerce showcase

Conversational shopping — voice or text, meal to basket in one go
Cookbook-grounded recipes — every meal from a real published cookbook, not a hallucination
Live catalogue & stock — every recommendation a real, available product
Virtual try-on with AI vision — see it on you before it's in the basket
One-tap basket — a meal, an outfit, a project — all at once
Hands-free — step-by-step voice narration as the customer uses it
Request a demo A 30-minute walkthrough with one of our team
AI Vision — the new sense of commerce

When "show me" replaces "describe it"

Customers already use their camera to shop. AI Vision lets your brand answer in kind — virtual try-on, scene understanding, product identification from a photo. It turns the smartphone into a fitting room, a showroom, a site surveyor.

Fashion & sportTry the outfit on before you buy — size, fit, look
Home & electricalSee the appliance in your kitchen, the sofa in your room
DIY & tradeSnap the broken part — we find the one that fits
AutomotivePreview the car on your driveway, the spec on your screen
Beauty & healthShade-match from a selfie, skin-type from a scan
Your categoryWherever "seeing it" changes the answer
Who Wins

Rare in commerce:
a change that makes both sides of the counter happier.

The customer's experience

They stop shopping. And they love it.

No more hunting across tabs, reading reviews, second-guessing. They describe what they need and it appears — in the brand they already trust.

Hours back, every week

What used to take twenty minutes of browsing now takes thirty seconds of conversation.

Genuine expert, any time

Advice with the depth of a specialist, the patience of a teacher, and the hours of none of either.

Fits the life they already live

Voice-first while cooking, driving, parenting. Works the way real life actually is — hands busy, mind on the question.

Recommendations that actually fit

Personalised by their history, their situation, their kitchen, their home, their style — not the generic "most popular."

The business case

Keep the question. Keep the sale.

Every question your AI answers is one your competitor didn't. And when there's a genuine buying moment in the conversation, the recommendation comes from your catalogue — not a link somewhere else. Useful always; commercial when it actually helps.

Higher AOV, not just more visits

AI that recommends a full meal, a full outfit, a full project — not one product. Basket size grows because the advice naturally expands scope.

Retention through habit

Customers don't open 20 shopping apps. They open the one that saves them time and gets them right answers. Be that one.

Defence against generic AI

When the answer to "what should I buy?" comes from your AI, it's never a competitor's product. The commerce moment stays inside your brand — by design.

First-party intent data you can't get anywhere else

Every question is a signal. You see what customers actually want, in plain English — before any of it shows up as search volume somewhere else.

Lower support cost, higher satisfaction

Every question the AI handles never becomes a phone call, a chat ticket, or an email. Your support team focuses on the conversations that actually need a human.

Merchandising intelligence on autopilot

Stock planning, content gaps, category trends — surfaced automatically from real conversations. Your buying team gets a weekly dashboard that's better than any focus group.

AI Commerce isn't a feature. It's what commerce becomes. See what it looks like for your brand →
Public Proof

Same engine.
Every category, its own moment worth owning.

Two live products you can see right now — one is a complete AI Commerce demonstrator, one is AI for care. Same engine, different moment.

Also prototyped

Banking Automotive DIY Retail Fashion Retail Sports Retail Electrical Retail Creators Manufacturing Publishing

Happy to walk you through any of these in a call — tailored to your catalogue, your customers, your systems.

Integration

Launch as a product.
Or slot it into the one you already have.
Same result.

AI Commerce is built on the Cognaris platform — which means we can deploy it as a new branded app on iOS, Android and web, embed it inside your existing app or website, or expose it via an API your team can integrate. Your catalogue, checkout and identity systems stay where they are.

Standalone branded app

New iOS, Android and web app under your brand. Fastest to market, cleanest experience, zero legacy friction.

Embedded inside your app

Drop the AI Commerce experience inside your existing native app or website. Your customers never leave your brand.

API / headless

Your product team wires the AI Commerce intelligence into your own UI. We provide the brain, you own the surface.

What we connect to
Your product catalogue — live pricing & stockREST / GraphQL
Your basket & checkout — no new checkout, your existing oneNative add-to-cart
Your customer identity — loyalty, history, preferencesSSO / OAuth
Your content — recipes, guides, specs, brochuresCMS / docs
Your physical estate — nearest-store stock, click & collectStore API
Your data warehouse — intent signals flow backS3 / Snowflake / BQ
How We Build It

From brief to
live product

Our commerce engine is already built. What we tailor for you is the catalogue connection, the conversational tone, and the brand. Timelines and investment scale with the ambition of the brief — we'll map both in the first conversation.

01

Discovery & Pitch

We spend a session with you mapping the commerce moment for your category. You leave with a written plan and a clear view of the value at stake.

02

Branded Prototype

We stand up a working version in your brand, connected to a sample of your catalogue. Your team can hold it, talk to it, sell with it — long before the full build is complete.

03

Integrate & Expand

We connect to live catalogue, basket, identity and analytics. The AI learns your voice and your merchandising rules. We widen the category coverage.

04

Launch & Evolve

We ship to iOS, Android, web, or embedded — whichever mix you need. You get the intent-data dashboard, we iterate monthly as conversations teach us more.

Deploy to
iOS native
Android native
Web app
Embedded widget
Headless API
Platform capabilities
Voice AI
AI Vision
Virtual Try-On
Live Catalogue
Add to Basket
Stock & Store Lookup
Identity / Loyalty
Personalisation
Multi-language
Intent Analytics
Merchandising AI
White-label
Streaming AI
RAG over your content
Commercial models
Build & Licence
Fixed build, ongoing licence — you own the product outright.
Revenue Share
Low build cost, shared uplift on AI-attributed sales.
Platform Licence
Your team runs it day-to-day. We provide the engine & updates.
Start a Conversation

Show us your category.
We'll show you what AI Commerce
looks like in it.

Send us your category, your catalogue footprint, and the question your customers most often ask. We'll come back with a clear view of what AI Commerce could look like in your brand — and what it would take to build it properly.

1
30-min discovery call
We map the commerce moment for your category. No pitch deck, no commitment.
2
Scoped proposal
A clear build plan, commercial model, and timeline — sized to the brief, not forced into a template.
3
Pilot & measure
Live pilot with a cohort of real customers. Uplift, AOV, retention — measured, not promised.
Working demo you can try today
Your catalogue, your brand
Flexible commercials
Revenue-share available
30-Minute Discovery Call
Free, no obligation — just a conversation about what AI Commerce could look like for your brand.
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