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Clustering billions of products for agentic commerce with Catalog API

Our short summary of Shopify’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Shopify needed to match the same real‑world products across billions of merchant listings that use different structures.

Solution

They built an LLM‑driven pipeline that creates embeddings for each product, clusters them with a precision‑first threshold, and assigns a universal product ID so AI shopping agents can search a unified catalog.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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