Shopify Founding Partners Wanted: Be Among the First Merchants to Replace Keyword Search With AI Discovery
5 slots. 90 days free. White-glove setup. Zero risk. Here’s what that actually means — and why we’re doing it.
Since January 2025, orders coming to Shopify stores from AI search are up 15x. — Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify
We’ve spent 24 months and created close to 400,000 lines of AI-Native onsite discovery code building something we believe is a genuine step-change for commerce merchants.
shopperGPT is live. cleanerGPT is live. And our first partner site — a real Shopify store, real catalog, real shoppers — is already running both.
Before we go broad, we’re opening 5 Founding Partner slots. And I want to be honest about why.
Why We’re Doing This — and What We’re Looking For
We’re not running a beta program. We don’t need bug reporters. We’re looking for long-term case study partners.
We need merchants who are willing to go deep with us — share real performance data, do regular check-ins, and co-author the kind of before/after story that shows the rest of the industry what’s actually possible. In return, those merchants get something that won’t be available after we launch publicly: direct access, hands-on setup, and pricing locked in for life at 40% below where we’ll open to everyone else.
Five merchants we can genuinely serve and genuinely document. That’s the whole idea.
Why the exchange? We’re building the future of commerce search & discovery. The merchants who help us get there early deserve to be permanently in front.
What “Founding Partner” Actually Means
What You Get
- 90 days completely free
- White-glove installation — we handle everything, 48-hour turnaround
- Multimodal AI search: NLP + 16M-shade color + image similarity
- Built-in A/B testing dashboard — measure against your existing search from day one
- Private install — no app store dependency, updates ship instantly
- Direct line to the product team — your feedback shapes the roadmap
- Lifetime preferred pricing locked at 40% off — forever
- Co-authored case study
- Promoted on our website and in our marketing activities
What We Ask In Return
- 30-minute onboarding call
- 15-minute weekly check-in for 8 weeks
- Testimonial + performance data at day 30
- Permission to reference your results in our marketing
No upfront cost. No long-term commitment. You see the results or you walk.
Zero Risk to Your Store — Seriously
When we interviewed merchants, we found that the one overwhelming concern they had about adopting shopperGPT — or any new core technology for that matter — was the associated risk: integration, downtime, crashes, broken install, negative experiences, unknowns.
So we completely eliminated it.
White glove install. We do it with you. For you. With 1-click.
shopperGPT runs alongside your existing Shopify search with a simple A/B split — you control the percentage with a dashboard slider. Start with any split you choose: 1%, 10%, 20% — entirely up to you. Scale it up as the data builds confidence. Install starts at 0%.
If anything ever feels off, one button pauses shopperGPT and restores your native Shopify search in under 2 minutes — no manual theme changes required, no support ticket, no us involved.
shopperGPT’s built-in A/B dashboard shows the comparison in real time: click-through rate, add-to-cart, checkout, revenue per session — shopperGPT vs. your existing search, side by side, from your actual shoppers on your actual catalog.
Who This Is For
We’re starting with Shopify’s fashion vertical — clothing, footwear, accessories — where search is a direct revenue lever and where catalog data quality is often the hidden conversion killer.
Specifically, merchants who:
- Are on Shopify with 1,000+ SKUs
- Are doing $5M–$50M GMV and have found product-market fit
- Know their search experience is costing them conversions — or want the data to prove it either way
- Are open to a real partnership, not just a free trial
We’re also fielding requests from other verticals and evaluating custom API integrations outside the Shopify platform. If that’s you, reach out and tell me what you’re working with.
What’s Coming Later This Week
I’ll be publishing a full launch article showing shopperGPT and cleanerGPT running live on our first partner site — a Shopify fashion store with 8,000+ products, most of them with raw supplier titles and HTML spec sheets for descriptions.
The before/after is striking. I’ll walk through exactly what the data looked like, what cleanerGPT did to it, and what shopperGPT delivers on top of that.
Five slots. Founding Partner status is confirmation-only. Comment below “INTERESTED“. Or DM me — first conversations move first. Link to the program is in the first comment below.
visualAI is building the commerce discovery OS for independent merchants — AI search, catalog enrichment, and AI-agent visibility. Three products launching spring 2026.