Resources
Practical writing on commerce discovery, search recovery, and AI.
Honest takes on what actually moves search outcomes — for ecommerce, B2B, and headless teams.
Blog
Latest posts.
How to Fix Zero-Result Searches in Ecommerce
A practical playbook for diagnosing zero-result searches, understanding their root causes, and converting them into product views, clicks, and revenue.
Semantic Search vs Keyword Search for Ecommerce
When keyword search is enough, when semantic search wins, and how to combine both for a discovery experience that handles intent, attributes, and long-tail catalogs.
Visual Search for Ecommerce: When It Matters
Visual search is over-hyped in some categories and under-used in others. Here is when it pays back, when it does not, and what to put in place before turning it on.
How B2B Commerce Teams Can Make PDFs and Spec Sheets Searchable
B2B catalogs hide the most important product information inside PDFs. Here is how to make those PDFs searchable, link them to products, and stop forcing buyers to read the catalog cover-to-cover.
RAG for Ecommerce: How to Ground AI Answers in Product Knowledge
How retrieval-augmented generation works for ecommerce, why grounding matters more than model choice, and a practical pattern for product Q&A and support assistants.
DAM for Ecommerce: Managing Product Images, Manuals, and Assets
Why ecommerce teams outgrow folders and shared drives, what to put into a DAM first, and how to tie assets to products for reuse, permissions, and discovery.
Guides
Long-form playbooks.
Ecommerce Search Recovery Checklist
A practical checklist to diagnose and fix the failed searches that are costing your store revenue — across products, filters, synonyms, and merchandising.
Synonyms: Building a Real Coverage Strategy
Most ecommerce stores have a synonym list. Few have a coverage strategy. Here is how to think about synonyms as a system instead of a junk drawer of rules.
Building Grounded AI Assistants for Ecommerce
How to design an AI product Q&A or guided buying assistant that retrieves from real product knowledge, cites sources, and avoids hallucination.
Headless Search Implementation Guide
A practical implementation guide for headless ecommerce teams adopting a hosted search and discovery API — indexing, components, observability, and merchant tooling.
Comparisons
Honest comparisons with adjacent platforms.
Scouty vs Algolia
An honest comparison: where Algolia is the right choice, where Scouty is the right choice, and how to decide between enterprise search infrastructure and a managed commerce discovery platform.
Scouty vs Shopify Search & Discovery
An honest comparison: when Shopify Search & Discovery is enough, when stores outgrow it, and what Scouty adds beyond filters and synonym groups.
Scouty vs Searchanise
Searchanise is a strong feature-rich Shopify and BigCommerce search app. Here is when each one is the right fit and how Scouty's platform breadth compares.
Scouty vs Native Ecommerce Search
Native search on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and headless platforms is fine for simple catalogs. Here is when stores outgrow it and what Scouty actually adds.
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