“Find products
like this photo.”
Image similarity search over your actual catalog — a shopper uploads a photo, and gets ranked matches back, not a shrug.
Shoppers describe what they see, not what it's called.
A shopper with a screenshot, a photo of a friend's jacket, or a reference pulled from somewhere else can't search your catalog well with words — they don't know what you call it. Image similarity search closes that gap by matching on what the product actually looks like.
It runs on the same search_products_trimodal tool as text and color search — set query_image_url and it takes over the call, ignoring query_text and query_color so each mode stays precise instead of blending into a muddy average. Combine modes with separate calls when you need to.
- ✓Upload or paste an image, get ranked catalog matches back
- ✓Runs on the same embeddings computed during enrichment
- ✓One API — search_products_trimodal — handles text, color, and image
- ✓Callable by AI agents via MCP, not just your storefront
- ✓No manual tagging or hand-built similarity rules
- ✓Same one-click Shopify connect as every capability here
Why this isn't a bolt-on service
One search engine, three ways to query it — not a separate visual-search vendor stapled on.
Same engine, one query shape
Image similarity isn’t a separate service — it’s the same search_products_trimodal tool used for text and color, just with an image reference instead of words.
Agent-callable, not storefront-only
The identical tool is exposed over MCP, so an AI shopping agent can run the same image-similarity lookup a human shopper would run on your site.
Live today, not a roadmap item
image_search is a named, shipped Outcome in the Foundation/Outcomes model — turn it on and it runs against your already-enriched catalog immediately.
How it works
Connect
One-click Shopify connect — the same install every capability on this platform uses.
Enrich
discoverGPT computes image embeddings for every product automatically during enrichment.
Activate
Turn on image_search as an Outcome — from the dashboard, or the outcomes API parameter.
Ship
Image search goes live in your search bar, and is callable directly by AI agents via MCP.
Search by photo, not just words.
Same connection as everything else here — one Shopify install, every capability.