Short write‑ups of problems we hit running a real commerce operation and what we changed in the code because of them. No product announcements; just the reasoning.
We replaced a third-party storefront search with our own — Typesense, typo tuning measured against real queries, synonyms shared across fourteen languages, merchandising boosts for staff, a hybrid semantic arm tuned with a harness instead of a hunch — and then turned the queries that found nothing into a shopping list for the buyers. Total AI spend for the whole programme: about six cents.