Help shoppers find the right rug, compare better options, and buy with confidence
Discovery-AI starts with the two capabilities that matter most for rug shopping: rug-specific search and relevant recommendations. Stores can then add guided navigation, Style AI room-to-rug recommendations, the Discovery-AI Visualizer, and the AI Rug Shopping Assistant as needed.
Start with better product discovery: help shoppers reach relevant rugs, available sizes, and useful alternatives faster.
Core capability 1
Rug-specific search
Search should understand how customers actually shop for rugs—not just match keywords. It should connect size, shape, color, style, material, pattern, room, use case, and budget with the right products and available variants.
Understand combined intent
Handle requests such as blue 5×8 rugs, close-size alternatives, pet-friendly materials, traditional styles, or rugs for a dining room.
Respect shape, size, and availability
Show compatible shapes, relevant imagery, available sizes, and corresponding prices instead of sending shoppers to dead ends.
Surface the right product and variant
Present the best matching product, image, size, brand, material, and price where the catalog supports it.
Core capability 2
AI-driven recommendations
Recommendations should give the shopper meaningful alternatives—not simply more products. Discovery-AI combines visual similarity, rug attributes, size and shape compatibility, product context, catalog relationships, and shopper engagement signals.
The product being viewed provides the context for the alternatives shown below it.Similar Rugs uses visual, attribute, product-context, and engagement signals to surface strong alternatives.
More Like This
Visually and contextually similar rugs for shoppers who like the current product but want alternatives.
Size-Compatible Alternatives
Options that preserve an important size or shape need while still considering overall relevance.
Similar Look & Style
Related color direction, pattern, texture, or design feel without simply duplicating the current rug.
Broader Relevant Options
Useful alternatives based on the product, catalog relationships, popularity, and observed shopper interest.
Complementary shopping tools
Support shoppers who browse differently or need more inspiration
Search and recommendations are the foundation. These tools add structured browsing and room-based inspiration without repeating the role of the AI Rug Shopping Assistant.
Discovery-AI Visualizer
See the rug in the room before buying
After search, recommendations, or Style AI identifies promising rugs, the Visualizer helps the shopper evaluate those options in room context.
Use the customer’s room
The shopper uploads a room photo or uses a supported room image.
Place a selected rug in context
Show the rug in the room so the shopper can judge overall look and fit.
Compare promising options
Move from search or recommendations into room visualization without restarting the journey.
Support conversion
Greater confidence can lead to an online purchase, inquiry, phone call, or showroom visit.
Discovery-AI Visualizer: connect product discovery with a room-based view before the shopper decides.
A connected shopping journey
The store can use only the capabilities it needs. When combined, they create a more useful path from a broad need to a confident decision.
1. DiscoverSearch or guided navigation helps the shopper reach a relevant set of rugs.
2. CompareRecommendations surface strong alternatives and complementary options.
3. Understand the roomStyle AI can use room context to recommend suitable products and design directions.
4. Visualize and actThe shopper sees rugs in context, asks the AI Rug Shopping Assistant questions, and moves toward a purchase or store interaction.
AI Rug Shopping Assistant
Natural-language help for product questions and next steps
The AI Rug Shopping Assistant is the single conversational experience on the site. It connects natural-language requests with the catalog, product context, store information, search, recommendations, the Visualizer, and ecommerce actions.
Find and compare rugs
Understand natural requests and return relevant products with sizes, prices, details, Add to Cart, and See in Room actions.
Answer product and store questions
Help with care, materials, availability, store hours, directions, returns, and other common needs.
Support conversion and staff handoff
Move shoppers toward a purchase, inquiry, call, showroom visit, or transfer the conversation to store staff when personal help is needed.
Start with search and recommendations—or build the connected experience
Choose the capabilities that fit the store’s catalog, customer needs, and growth priorities.
