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AI shopping assistant

Client
Cartwheel
Sector
E-commerce
Year
2025
Timeline
12 weeks
Team
1 designer, 2 engineers, 1 AI lead
Services
AI Integration, Web Development

The challenge

Shoppers left product pages to ask sizing and compatibility questions in support chat, and many never came back. Support costs rose with every campaign.

What we did

  1. Answers from real data

    The assistant only answers from Cartwheel's catalogue, size guides and past support replies, and shows where each answer came from.

  2. Evaluate before launch

    We built a test set of 400 real questions and scored every model change against it before it reached shoppers.

  3. Recommend, don't push

    Suggestions appear as a short, dismissible list next to the product, never as a pop-up.

“Clear scoping, weekly demos and code we were genuinely happy to inherit.”
Priya Nair
CTO, Cartwheel
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