SuggestAPI
SuggestAPI exposes commerce tools through MCP and WebMCP on its Agent Gateway
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The discovery layer
Turn shopping intent into products, wherever people start.
Add intent, context, and agent-ready discovery to the search you already run. SuggestAPI understands the full shopping job, then guides retrieval, comparison, recommendations, and checkout handoff—without replacing your catalog, search engine, or checkout.
Works with the search you already run
Algolia · Typesense · Elasticsearch · Meilisearch · Shopify
Start BuildingSee how it works
Shoppers · Apps · AI agents
01
Discovery signal active
What changes
Make the search you already have understand what shoppers mean.
Your search engine still finds products. SuggestAPI turns a messy shopping request into the constraints, context, and next steps that make those results useful.
The same shopper request, “Hiking boots for Iceland in October under $250,” fails as a keyword string in existing search and succeeds when SuggestAPI reads it as a shopping job and passes structured intent to the search engine already in place.
Shopper request
“Hiking boots for Iceland in October under $250”
Without SuggestAPI
Existing search box
Hiking boots for Iceland in October under $250
Search sees a string
Literal / keyword match
→ no result, or loosely relevant results
- Receives the full request as one text string
- Often treats it like disconnected keywords
- Can return zero or loosely relevant results
- Loses context when the shopper refines
Shopper has to start over
With SuggestAPI
SuggestAPI + your existing search
Hiking boots for Iceland in October under $250
SuggestAPI sees the shopping job
Intent understood
- → Iceland
- → October
- → Under $250
- → Waterproof
- → Hiking boots
- Reads the same request as a shopping job
- Extracts constraints: destination, time, budget, category, features
- Sends structured filters and ranking context to the existing search engine
- Carries intent into refine, compare, recommend, and checkout handoff
Existing Algolia, Shopify, Elasticsearch, and the rest return ranked matching products.
Existing search receives usable intent
What SuggestAPI adds
- 01
Understand the request
Extract use case, budget, timing, preferences, and constraints from natural language. 2. 02
Guide your existing search
Rewrite, route, filter, and rank requests for the engine already underneath. 3. 03
Keep context across the journey
Preserve the shopping job when someone refines, compares, or asks a follow-up. 4. 04
Return discovery-ready results
Give shoppers and agents products they can compare, recommend, and hand off to checkout.
Why we built this
You shouldn’t need a new discovery layer for every assistant.
People shop with messy, persistent intent. Existing search drops that context after one query. Merchants shouldn’t have to rebuild discovery for every new assistant just to keep the shopper moving.
Shoppers, apps, and agents reach SuggestAPI first. SuggestAPI understands the job and keeps that context. Your existing search finds and ranks products. Your existing checkout completes the purchase.
Shoppers, apps, and AI agents reach SuggestAPI, which understands intent, keeps context, and structures the journey. Your existing search finds and ranks products from your catalog. Your existing checkout completes the purchase.
Who starts
Shoppers · Apps · AI agents
↓
SuggestAPI
Understands intent · keeps context · structures the journey
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Your existing search
Finds and ranks products from your catalog
↓
Your existing checkout
IntentRetrieveCompareRecommendHandoff
One layer for the shopping journey
Keep the intent through the whole path to purchase.
Intent and constraint extraction, search acceleration, and agent discovery sit in front of the engine you already chose, so a new shopping assistant doesn’t mean a new search stack, and a follow-up question doesn’t mean starting over.
01 / Understand
Intent & Constraint Extraction
Extract use case, budget, timing, preferences, and constraints from natural language, then send structured filters and ranking context to the search engine you already run. No replatform.
Intent → Retrieve
02 / Accelerate
Search Acceleration
Get the shopper to the right products fast: query rewriting, routing, caching, and delivery straight through your existing search stack.
Ask → Find
03 / Agents
Agent Discovery
The same catalog, structured so AI assistants can search, compare, recommend, and hand off to checkout through MCP and WebMCP on the SuggestAPI Agent Gateway. Shoppers, apps, and agents share that catalog. The merchant keeps the cart, checkout, and customer relationship.
Compare → Handoff
Your search, catalog, and checkout stay where they are.
Read the full category story →
Same intent, ready for agents
Built for the agent that needs to finish the trip.
Agents don’t want a feature list. They need to keep the shopper’s job intact (search, compare, answer, and hand off to commerce) without changing the catalog underneath. The same request—hiking boots for Iceland in October under $250—arrives already interpreted, so the agent can compare and hand off without starting from a keyword string.
{id · title · price · size · in_stock}
- Find it
- Compare it
- Ask it
- Recommend it
- Hand it off Explore the protocols →
Agent path
Intent → structure
For your stack
Keep the shopping journey on the stack you already run.
Keep Algolia, Typesense, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, or Shopify. SuggestAPI sits in front so you capture shopping intent without replacing the search and checkout you already trust. If you don’t have an engine yet, start on a SuggestAPI index.
ShopifyCommerce platformAlgoliaSearch engineClaude CommerceCommerce agentCloudflare AI SearchAgent search
Also Typesense, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch. Adapter notes in Bring Your Own Search.
Built for the agentic web.
Meet shoppers where they already ask.
Intent that starts in ChatGPT, Gemini, a copilot, or a shopping agent still needs to land on your products. SuggestAPI is the discovery layer that makes that handoff possible.
Agents connect over MCP and WebMCP at the SuggestAPI Agent Gateway (agent.suggestapi.com): four commerce tools (search, recommend, compare, and product lookup) plus a WebMCP manifest for browser-oriented agents.
ARDUCPACPMCPA2APAPWebMCPAgent Skills
Shopping intent that starts in ChatGPT, Gemini, copilots, or shopping agents still lands on your catalog through SuggestAPI Agent Discovery.
Your catalog
Discovery
SuggestAPI Agent Discovery
Agent-ready
ChatGPT · Gemini · copilots
shopping agents · custom agents
Intent first
Hold the shopping job, not just the query
Zero
Search migration
One API
Every backend you already run
One journey
Shoppers, apps, and agents
Capture demand your search is losing.
Add a discovery layer without replacing the stack you have.
Connect the search you already run, or start on a SuggestAPI index. Hold shopping intent from the first ask through purchase, for people and agents.
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