AI & automation
Generative AI, agents and automation for product data and commerce teams, with the human review that keeps them trustworthy.
Meet Aidrian: Sitation’s 2026 Stibo Systems Hackathon Finalist
Meet Aidrian, Sitation’s AI product support agent and one of four finalists in the 2026 Stibo Systems Hackathon. Watch how trusted product data supports a guided path from issue to resolution. Read More
What’s New in Salsify: AI Agents, Agentic Discovery, and a Bigger Network
Salsify has shipped a dense run of updates this quarter, and the throughline across nearly all of them is the same one we’ve been tracking for a while now: product data has to serve two audiences at once, the human shopper scanning a page and the AI agent summarizing it… Read More
Product content & syndication Insight
What Actually Makes a Product Image Convert?
For most of digital commerce’s history, “Is this a good product image?” was answered by whoever had the most seniority in the room. Brand managers had taste. Creative directors had instincts. Nobody had a number, so nothing shipped against a standard. It shipped against an opinion. That’s starting to change,… Read More
Digital shelf & retail media Insight
Shoppers Are Using AI to Shop. They Still Don’t Trust It Alone.
A shopper asks ChatGPT what blender to buy. It gives a confident answer. Then, more often than not, that same shopper opens a browser tab and checks the product page anyway. That habit, adopt the AI tool, then verify with something else, is the clearest signal in Salsify’s newly released… Read More
Digital shelf & retail media Strategy
Win the Shelf When Competitors Go Dark
THE OPPORTUNITY A new competitive battleground, and most brands aren’t ready Out-of-stock moments are becoming recommendation moments. When a shopper discovers that their preferred product is unavailable, they do not always leave the site or try a different retailer. Increasingly, they ask AI what to buy instead. And when they… Read More
GDSN Was Built for This: How AI Finally Unlocks the Standard’s True Potential
The data model was built to handle extraordinary complexity. AI is what finally makes that complexity manageable. Spend enough time in the world of GDSN and you develop a certain appreciation for the standard. The data model is genuinely well-designed. Hierarchical trade item structures, target market… Read More
Predictive Readiness: Why Product Data Is the Foundation of Agentic Commerce
Sitation has had a busy Q2 traveling to industry trade shows and conferences both to share our expertise and to gain new insight and vantage points for the latest evolution of e‑commerce. Like many years, there is a common thread, and like the last few, it begins with AI. Agentic… Read More
Beyond the Product Description: How Plezio Draft Is Redefining AI Content at Scale
When most e-commerce teams hear “AI content tool,” they picture one thing: a product description generator. Type in some attributes, get a paragraph back, move on. It’s a legitimate use case, but also a narrow one, especially as the demands on e-comm content teams continue to expand well beyond the… Read More
Plezio software Customer story
From Weeks to Minutes: ShelterLogic’s AI Translation Breakthrough
Salsify Transformer Awards 2026 | Category 4: Exceptional Business Transformation Three weeks. That’s how long it used to take ShelterLogic to get translated product content back from an external agency. Every time. For a company managing an 11-brand outdoor lifestyle portfolio across North American markets, that timeline wasn’t just inconvenient. Read More
Iterating With AI: How AI tools can improve PXM through your existing PIM
I’ve spent most of my consulting years focused primarily on Implementing and Integration PIM. But what happens after go live? Sure, there’s Hypercare and managed services around support, troubleshooting integrations, and maybe even new feature development for integrations. Often, there’s new catalog onboarding and expansion opportunities for the marketing or… Read More
