AI for ecommerce

An AI agent for your ecommerce store.

GATE's AI for ecommerce gives an online store its own agent for the boring half of running it: answering shoppers on your site and in your inbox, social posts and creators, newsletters to your own lists, Google and Meta ads, landing pages, and reading your Shopify orders, products and customers. Habitual, a Swedish supplements brand on Shopify, reports 33% more sales and capacity for five times the orders since putting its business on GATE.

Which products sold best this week?
By orders: the Starter kit, the Refill pack and the Gift box. Want a newsletter about the Gift box to your list?
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How it works

How does an AI agent work for an online store?

Your shop platform keeps taking the orders. Your agent takes the work around them.

01

Brief your agent

Tell it your products, your shoppers and how you sound. It writes your brand voice and ideal customer into GATE's tools, so posts, emails and answers start from them.

02

Connect the store and channels

Once you connect your store, your agent reads your Shopify orders, products and customers. Instagram, your support inbox and your Google and Meta ad accounts connect too.

03

Answer shoppers

A chat button on your site answers questions about delivery, returns and products from the files you give it, and anyone on your team can take over a chat.

04

Bring shoppers in

Posts, carousels and video for Instagram, newsletters to your own lists with a test send first, creators graded before contact, and Google and Meta ads that start paused.

05

Watch the numbers

Ad spend and conversions for any date range, visits and sources from GATE's own analytics without cookies, and your Search Console queries per page over time.

What does the agent do on its own?

Only what you allow, per kind of action. Some limits are built into GATE.

How much it does alone

Set per action, raised as trust grows.

Website chat answers
Instagram DM replies
Sales emails

Out of the box: the website chat answers every shopper until a person takes over, Instagram DM replies stay off until you pick a mode, and sales emails wait for your yes.

Limits built into GATE

Whatever the agent is asked.

Shopify access is read only: orders, products and customers
Ads and campaigns it creates start paused
Budget changes are refused without an explicit confirm
The website chat never presses a submit button for a shopper
An unsubscribe stops every GATE tool from mailing that person

What can an AI agent do for an ecommerce store?

Six store jobs, each done through a real GATE tool.

Shopify

Orders, products and customers

Your agent reads your latest orders, your products and any customer record, so its reports and newsletters start from what actually sells.

Shoppers

Answers on your site

A chat button answers from your delivery, returns and product files, day and night, and loads only on your own store's addresses.

Social

Posts and creators

Posts, carousels and video for Instagram and photo posts for a Facebook Page, and creators graded out of ten before anyone is contacted.

Email

Newsletters to your list

Newsletters to your own CRM lists from your Gmail or your own domain, test send first, and every unsubscribe honoured across GATE.

Ads

Google and Meta ads

Spend, clicks and conversions for any date range, and new ads and campaigns created paused, with budget changes needing an explicit confirm.

Pages

Landing pages for launches

A draft page goes live at a real link in seconds for comments, then ships to your own domain over HTTPS.

AI agent, a stack of store apps or an agency?

Three ways an online store gets the work around its orders done, side by side.

What you compareOne app per jobAn agencyYour GATE agent
Who does the workYou, in each app's settingsPeople you brief and pay per jobYour agent, briefed in plain language
What it coversOne job per appWhat the contract coversShopper questions, social, newsletters, ads, landing pages and analytics
Memory of your storeEach app sees its own sliceLives with the people on your accountOne memory of your business that builds over time
ControlSettings in each appBriefs, reports and meetingsModes per conversation, approvals per action and an activity log
Your shop platformApps installed into itStays as it isStays as it is: your agent reads it
How you startInstall and set up each appA brief, a contract, then onboardingAn invite, then a brief in plain language
What it does not doAnything outside the appAnything outside the briefStock and inventory, payroll or sending invoices

One founder, and 33% more sales.

Habitual sells vegan, sugar-free gummy supplements on Shopify. Its founder reports 33% more sales, capacity for five times the orders and a 50% faster site after putting the business on GATE.

Read the Habitual story
FAQ

Straight answers.

What are AI agents for ecommerce?

AI agents for ecommerce are software agents that do store work instead of only suggesting it. GATE gives an online store its own agent for the work around the orders: answering shoppers on your site and in your inbox, posting on social media, sending newsletters, running Google and Meta ads that start paused, building landing pages and reading your Shopify orders, products and customers.

What is agentic commerce?

Agentic commerce usually means AI agents that search and buy on a shopper's behalf. GATE works on the other side of the counter: your store's own agent does the boring half of running the shop, from shopper questions and social posts to newsletters, ads and landing pages, while your shop platform keeps taking the orders and the payments.

Does GATE work with Shopify?

Yes. Once you connect your store, GATE's agent can read your most recent orders, your products and any customer record, and uses them for reports, newsletters and answers to you. The Shopify access is read only: GATE's agent does not change products, prices, stock or orders in your store.

Can GATE answer my store's customers?

Yes. GATE's website chat answers shoppers from the files you give it, such as delivery, returns and product texts, and only loads on your store's own addresses. Your support inbox and your Instagram or WhatsApp messages can route to your agent too, each conversation with its own mode, and anyone on your team can take over a website chat.

Can GATE add AI product search to my store?

Not as a search engine. GATE's website chat answers product questions from the product texts you add as files, plain .md or .txt of up to 256 KB each, but it does not search your Shopify catalog or read your stock. For a store with many products, the files you give the chat decide what it knows.

Does GATE manage my ads and social media?

GATE's agent makes and schedules posts, carousels and video for Instagram and photo posts for a Facebook Page, grades creators out of ten before contacting any, and reads and creates Google and Meta ads. Every ad and campaign it creates starts paused, budget changes are refused without an explicit confirm, and your agent quotes the exact change and amount before asking for your yes.

What can't GATE's ecommerce agent do?

GATE's agent does not manage stock or inventory, run payroll or send invoices, and its Shopify access is read only, so it does not change products, prices or orders. It does not make video ads or run ads outside Google and Meta, and it does not buy contact lists: newsletters go only to people already on your own lists.

Do I have to replace my store platform?

No. GATE works next to the store you already run: your shop platform keeps the catalog, the checkout and the payments, and your GATE agent does the work around them. GATE is invite only right now; once you are in, you connect your store and channels and brief your agent in plain language.

Does AI move real numbers for an online store?

It did for Habitual, a Swedish supplements brand that sells on Shopify. After putting the business on GATE, Habitual reports 33% more sales, capacity for five times the orders and a 50% faster site. Every number on GATE's customer pages is reported by the customer, and the full story is on GATE's Habitual case page.

Get your store its own agent.

Invite only while we onboard a small number of businesses.

Invite only. We'll meet you at the door. Prefer to talk? Talk to the founders.