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Building an AI Shopping Assistant That Actually Works

Most AI shopping tools just wrap affiliate links. We built ours on real-time crawl data, structured product graphs, and preference learning. Here's the technical breakdown.

Engineering Team· neww.aiMarch 22, 2026 11 min read

Most "AI shopping" tools are glorified affiliate-link generators. Ours isn't. We crawl product catalogs via Bright Data, structure them into a unified product graph, then index the graph in Meilisearch for sub-second queries.

The preference-learning layer sits on top: every click, every save, every purchase teaches the assistant what you actually want. This post is the technical breakdown — data pipeline, schema, retrieval, ranking, and the UI tricks that make it feel like magic.

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