Build commerce search and shopping-assistant experiences

To-AI gives each tenant one isolated commerce boundary that can power two customer experiences from the same catalog truth:

1. a direct product-search API for a tenant's search bar or application;
2. an AI shopping assistant that uses the same governed catalog through public chat.

Your connector sends schema and product deltas. To-AI owns projection, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, assistant orchestration, and public-chat delivery. Signed inventory events keep availability current without requiring a full product resync.

The mental model

flowchart LR
  CORE[Tenant commerce core] -->|schema and product sync| APP[To-AI tenant API]
  CORE -->|signed inventory deltas| CAT[Catalog webhook]
  APP --> CATALOG[Isolated tenant catalog]
  CAT --> CATALOG
  CATALOG --> SEARCH[Search API]
  CATALOG --> AI[Shopping assistant]
  AI --> CHAT[Public chat stream]

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