Merchant intelligence for AI commerce

The merchant decision layer for AI commerce.

AgentGora turns shopper or agent intent, merchant policy, and live commerce signals into structured product and offer decisions. It powers merchant-owned discovery today and is designed for emerging agent-facing commerce.

01

Protect shopper relevance

Only consider products that genuinely satisfy the shopper's needs.

02

Encode merchant policy

Set the rules that must always hold, then the priorities — inventory, margin, promotions, launches — that decide between the options that pass.

03

Respond across surfaces

Return a product, offer, or action to a merchant surface or an AI agent — with a traceable reason.

Illustrative beauty decision

Four products can all fit. The merchant still has a decision.

Beauty makes the tradeoff tangible: dense assortments, frequent launches and promotions, meaningful inventory differences, and several genuinely substitutable products for the same shopper need.

agentgora · decision tracefictional example · skincare
The shopper wantsLightweight, fragrance-free moisturizer for sensitive skin · under $50 · ships this week
Current merchant policyProtect low-stock hero SKUs; favor funded promotions and healthy inventory; improve contribution within the relevance guardrail
1 · Filter feasibility→2 · Establish strong-fit set→3 · Apply merchant policy
SELECTED · STRONG FIT CALM BARRIER GEL-CREAM ceramide · oat · fragrance free 50 ml / 1.7 fl oz
Selected under merchant policy

Calm Barrier Gel-Cream

MOISTURIZER · FRAGRANCE FREE · IN STOCK
$42fictional price

The shopper has several acceptable moisturizers. This one remains a strong fit and wins because the merchant's current policy favors healthy inventory and an eligible funded promotion while protecting a low-stock hero SKU.

0.94relevance
486units available
activefunded promo
Why it clears the relevance bar
  • Lightweight gel-cream texture
  • Fragrance-free
  • Positioned for sensitive skin
  • Within shopper's price / delivery constraints
Why it wins under policy
  • Healthy inventory coverage
  • Eligible funded promotion
  • Meets current contribution objective
  • No hard constraint is violated
Other products that also clear the relevance bar — why they rank lower under current policy
AQUAGEL MOISTURIZER
Aqua Gel Moisturizer$38
Relevance 0.93. Excellent fit, but only 28 units remain and the merchant is protecting this hero SKU.
LOW STOCK · PROTECTED
DAILYCERAMIDE LOTION
Daily Ceramide Lotion$34
Relevance 0.92. Healthy inventory, but no active campaign and lower contribution under today's policy.
LOWER CURRENT PRIORITY
CLOUDWATER CREAM
Cloud Water Cream$46
Relevance 0.91. A good fit and the best margin of the four, but this cycle's promotion budget is committed to Calm Barrier Gel-Cream.
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The simple idea

Relevance sets the boundary. Merchant policy decides within it.

A shopper may have several genuinely good options. AgentGora first establishes the acceptable set, then applies explicit merchant policy inside that set — so commercial priorities never rescue an irrelevant product.

01

Establish relevance

Use shopper intent, preferences, constraints, and journey context to identify strong-fit products.

02

Apply merchant policy

Separate hard constraints from softer objectives — inventory health, margin, promotions, launches, fulfillment.

03

Decide within the guardrail

Select the relevant option that best satisfies the merchant's current policy.

What AgentGora is

A programmable merchant-side decision engine.

AgentGora gives merchants an explicit policy layer between intent and action: what must be respected, what should be prioritized, and how those priorities change with the state of the business.

shopper intent What is relevant? Intent, preferences, journey context
merchant policy What is required? What is preferred? Hard constraints and business priorities
live commerce state What's true right now? Inventory · economics · promotions · fulfillment
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AgentGora
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Product decision
Offer / terms
Structured response

Merchant optimization operates within shopper-relevance guardrails.

Every merchant has different priorities

Merchant policy isn't a single score.

AgentGora represents merchant logic explicitly — hard constraints, ordered objectives, softer preferences, and conditional rules — so priorities can change without retraining the underlying model.

Hard constraintsmust be satisfied
AvailabilityEligibilityChannel restrictionsMinimum relevance
Ordered objectivesmerchant chooses precedence
Protect inventoryClear seasonal stockSupport a launchImprove contribution
Soft preferencesinfluence within the safe set
MarginPromotionFulfillmentInventory health
Conditional policystate and time aware
The same signal can mean different things: protect scarce inventory early, then accelerate sell-through as the selling horizon closes.
Dynamic updateschange without retraining
Policies can shift by merchant, product, campaign, season, or business condition and take effect immediately.

Built for agent-facing commerce

When a shopper sends an AI agent instead of a browser.

Some agent traffic carries an explicit intent — a structured request from a shopping assistant or protocol. Some is just crawling the catalog, the way search bots always have, with no intent attached. AgentGora applies merchant policy either way: to a live request when intent is available, to the catalog and feed when it isn't.

EXAMPLE — WHEN INTENT IS AVAILABLE

AI AGENT REQUEST

What can this shopper buy?

The request carries intent and constraints rather than a page click.

intentlight moisturizer for sensitive skin
constraintsunder $60 · fragrance free · ships this week
contextchannel · locale · journey state
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MERCHANT RESPONSE

Return a decision, not just a catalog row.

AgentGora applies relevance, merchant policy, and live business state before producing a structured response.

AgentGora decision layer relevance guardrail → hard constraints → merchant objectives → live state
producteligible strong-fit item(s)
offerprice · promotion · bundle · terms
fulfillmentavailability · ETA · checkout path
reason codeswhy this response satisfied policy

Important boundary: external AI platforms control their own ranking and presentation. AgentGora controls the merchant-side response when the merchant is asked to participate — through its own surfaces, direct APIs, or emerging agent-commerce interfaces.

Where AgentGora works

One policy and decision layer. Multiple interfaces.

Use the same merchant intelligence for human-facing discovery today and agent-facing commerce as those channels mature.

merchant-owned traffic

Today

  • Search
  • Collections
  • PDP recommendations
  • Landing pages
agent-facing commerce

Emerging

  • Structured agent requests
  • Direct merchant endpoints
  • Agent-commerce protocol integrations
offers & merchandising

Adjacent

  • Promotions
  • Bundles
  • Dynamic offers
  • Campaign decisions
Start on merchant-owned traffic today. Reuse the same policy and decision layer as AI agents become a larger source of demand.

A low-risk starting point

Find the opportunity. Then prove it.

Start with historical data to identify where alternative product-discovery decisions could have improved revenue, contribution profit, inventory outcomes, or promotion efficiency. Then validate the same decision logic on a controlled merchant-owned surface before extending it to new channels.

01

Audit

Find decisions with meaningful economic potential.

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Pilot

Run a controlled pilot alongside the current experience.

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03

Measure

Compare revenue, profit, conversion, and relevant KPIs.

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04

Deploy

Scale only when the evidence supports it.

About AgentGora

Research depth. Commercial focus.

Founder
Negin Golrezaei MIT professor — AI, optimization, marketplaces, and online decision-making.

AgentGora was founded by Negin Golrezaei, an MIT professor whose work spans AI, optimization, marketplaces, and online decision-making.

Our mission is to give merchants an intelligent, programmable way to participate in the next generation of product discovery — across their own sites and emerging AI-agent channels.

Start a conversation

Bring merchant intelligence to every commerce surface.

Start with an opportunity audit or pilot on merchant-owned traffic today, and extend the same decision layer to emerging AI channels over time.