Revolutionizing mobile commerce with AI-powered onboarding

By  
Adam Gibicar
November 20, 2024

Today, we’re excited to introduce something groundbreaking for Shopify merchants. Imagine turning your existing online store into a high-performing, branded mobile app—an app that not only delights your customers but also amplifies your brand on every mobile device. That’s the power of Reactiv.

With Reactiv, Shopify merchants can extend their stores to mobile apps, giving them the ability to connect with customers like never before. But we didn’t stop there. We wanted to make the journey to mobile apps as seamless and intelligent as possible. And that’s why we turned to AI.

Effortless Onboarding with AI-Powered Recommendations

Building a mobile app should be quick, intuitive, and intelligent. At Reactiv, we wanted to streamline the onboarding experience by leveraging the hard work merchants have already invested in their Shopify online web stores. Using AI, and leveraging the Shopify Storefront API, we are able to analyze a merchant’s storefront and pull critical insights. This isn’t just data extraction—it’s an AI-driven transformation.

The AI onboarding tool reviews design elements, and processes relevant information to help us understand the core of a brand. Then, using our proven mobile app templates, we create customized starting points tailored to boost engagement and sales. The result? An onboarding experience that feels natural, intuitive, and ready to launch a mobile app that looks and performs at the highest level.

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to Analyze your Store

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT models, data extraction has become more sophisticated, context-aware, and adaptable, offering new possibilities for gathering insights with less manual intervention. That’s why we’ve designed AI powered web scraping techniques to understand your brand.  We’ve split this up into several tasks that make up key components of building your mobile app with Reactiv.  

First, Reactiv AI will scan your store and extract brand details: such as your store name, description, logo, brand colors and font styles used. Next, we built out your homepage using one of our curated homepage layouts and fill these sections with content detected from your store. By combining prompt engineering, function calling and structured outputs, we’ve been able to enhance general purpose LLMs to act as your personal onboarding wizard. 

Lastly, using the vision capabilities of Multi-Modal LLMs, we analyze your brand’s Product Detail Screens and Product Listing Screens and detect the layout and settings to build these in Reactiv’s Dashboard. Utilizing both image and text inputs as context, we are able to perform image-based text extraction and object detection needed to match what you have in your store.

Reactiv AI Service

At Reactiv, we believe AI is and will continue to be a game-changer for both our customers and our business. That's why we developed the Reactiv AI Service, where AI Onboarding lives. We designed custom APIs to provide a robust and adaptable framework for deploying and managing AI jobs across various use cases. With its flexibility to run any AI job and compatibility with multiple large language models (LLMs), the service is versatile enough to support a broad range of applications and future feature development. Its easy deployability ensures swift integration into our existing systems, enabling rapid testing and scaling of AI solutions. 

We have included fallback mechanisms to further enhance reliability by providing alternatives in case of model or service failures, ensuring a consistent user experience.

For AI Onboarding, we allow merchants to submit feedback directly through the Reactiv Dashboard, which equips us with a continuous improvement loop that helps refine model performance and robustness over time.  This framework not only drives client success but strengthens our brand as a provider of cutting-edge, user-focused AI solutions.

Reactiv: AI-Enhanced Mobile Commerce for Every Brand

At Reactiv, we’re excited about the future of mobile commerce. With AI powering every stage of the journey, from onboarding to maintenance, we’re transforming how merchants interact with their stores, empowering them to reach new heights. Reactiv is here to change the game, giving every Shopify merchant the tools they need to create mobile apps that are beautiful, high-performing, and always one step ahead.

Welcome to the future of mobile commerce with Reactiv.

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