We Measured the AI Traffic Wave: Tiny but Growing Fast

We Measured the AI Traffic Wave: Tiny but Growing Fast

94 million sessions, $274M in revenue, 10 Shopify stores, 24 months of data. AI assistants drive 0.06% of traffic. Here's where the money actually comes from.
Shopify's Campaign Autopilot: AI Ad Agency?

Shopify's Campaign Autopilot: AI Ad Agency?

"It's an in-house, ready-to-go agency. Which is free for all merchants."
GWP ROI Calculator showing a gift-with-purchase campaign netting $4,684 per month versus the equivalent discount

Free Gifts Beat Discounts. We Built a Calculator to Prove It.

A $34 discount costs you $34. A $34 gift costs you $9. We ran 60 days of real store data through that asymmetry, then built a free calculator so you can run yours.
What's an Agentic Storefront anyway? (Shopify Editions Spring 2026)

What's an Agentic Storefront anyway? (Shopify Editions Spring 2026)

"Being on Shopify means you get access to agentic automatically, out of the box."
Shopify Rebuilt Its Entire POS | Editions Spring '26 Updates

Shopify Rebuilt Its Entire POS | Editions Spring '26 Updates

"I hear store associates asking people in person for their email all the time, and it always is a little bit awkward."
Frosted-glass 3D illustration of a doll silhouette in a magnifying glass over listing cards, connected to independent storefronts

We Built a Barbie Search Engine to Prove a Point About Shopify's UCP

Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol makes every store's catalog searchable with no auth, no tokens, and no fees. We built DollScout, a live collector-Barbie finder, to prove it, then open-sourced...
Awesome Ecom Skills: open-source Shopify playbooks for AI agents

I Open-Sourced My Agency's Shopify Playbooks for AI Agents

AI agents can run your Shopify store now. Claude Code, plugged into the Admin API, will happily archive products, rewrite descriptions, and delete metafields at catalog scale. That's the good news ...
Inside Shop's New Agentic Search | Shopify Editions

Inside Shop's New Agentic Search | Shopify Editions

"If I don't see that purple button at checkout, bye-bye." That's what Shop's buyers tell Kenny Cohen, and it's a clue to why Shop has quietly become one of the most valuable channels a Shopify merc...
Gift With Purchase Psychology & The Power of “Free”

Gift With Purchase Psychology & The Power of “Free”

Gift with purchase psychology explains why a free gift converts better than a discount of equal value. Here’s the research behind it and how ecommerce brands put it to work.
Shopify VP Vanessa Lee Explains the "Everywhere" Edition

Shopify VP Vanessa Lee Explains the "Everywhere" Edition

VP of Product Vanessa Lee joins Kurt to break down the 2026 "Everywhere" edition and the years of quiet groundwork behind it: taxonomy, attributes, clustering, and a universal product identifier th...
How We Built Montana Knife Co's Insane Landing Page

How We Built Montana Knife Co's Insane Landing Page

Montana Knife Company was finally releasing its first folding knife, a $390 piece their fans had been begging for, and they wanted an announcement page worthy of the moment. Apple-style scroll anim...
8-Figure Shopify Brand, $0 Profit for 6 Years: Fresh Chile's Chris Lang shares all

8-Figure Shopify Brand, $0 Profit for 6 Years: Fresh Chile's Chris Lang shares all

Inside: why he started publishing his real ROAS on LinkedIn when the numbers were ugly, the 80% Meta cut that finally flipped him profitable, and how a 250K-follower organic community out-engages H...
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