AI Shopping Assistant Improvement
14 Sep 2026

Follow-Up and Closing Improvements for Product Info

Two changes shipped for the Product Info use case, both aimed at cutting dead ends in the assistant's conversations.

Graceful closing. The assistant now caps itself at two targeted follow-up questions per product. If the need is still unclear after that, it stops probing and closes with an open question instead of forcing a binary choice. No more endless digging.

Honest pivot on mismatch. When a shopper asks about a characteristic the product doesn't have, the assistant says so directly and redirects to a characteristic it can actually help with, rather than quietly steering the conversation toward a dead end. Before suggesting an alternative, it now checks the catalog first. If nothing in the catalog has it, it doesn't get suggested.