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Big replatforming projects? Digital leaders are thinking smaller. Guest speaker Emily Pfeiffer, Principal Analyst at Forrester, joined Algolia to share the top priorities she's hearing from digital leaders, and one theme stood out: organizations want to get more from the technology they already have. That means preserving existing investments, making targeted improvements, and prioritizing changes with fast time to value. Search is a clear example: organizations are adding standalone search alongside their existing commerce platforms instead of a full rip-and-replace. Watch the full webinar to hear Emily break down the five priorities shaping digital strategy today. Link in the comments ⤵

1.75 trillion queries a year. Nine years straight on the Inc. 5000 ✔️ Algolia has been named to the 2026 Inc. Magazine 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, our ninth consecutive year on the list. The ranking recognizes companies that have grown through sustained economic and technological change, including our expansion beyond search into the retrieval layer for AI applications and agents, with the launch of Agent Studio and continued investment in our AI Search and Retrieval platform. This adds to a strong year for Algolia, including a third consecutive year as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery, TrustRadius Top Rated and Buyer's Choice honors, and a place on G2's Best Software Top 50 Commerce Products list. Full announcement and the complete list linked in the comments.

The countdown to #AlgoliaDevCon 2026 is on! ⏰ 🙌 Join us October 1 for a free virtual event packed with: 🌟 Inspiring AI + search talks 🌟 Real-world demos and technical deep dives 🌟 Insights from developers building what’s next 🌟 Practical sessions on AI search, agents, MCP, and more! This year’s theme, Beyond Search: Discovery in the Agentic Era, explores how AI is reshaping discovery and what it means for the developers building the next generation of search and agentic experiences. Whether you’re experimenting with agents, scaling AI-powered search, or building your next big thing, Algolia DevCon is the place to learn, connect, and build alongside the global developer community. Featuring talks from Stephen Lynch, Micah Garside-White, Tal Peleg, Tatyana (Tanya) Herman, Natan Yagudayev, Marwan Burelle, Emir Belkahia, and Tom Claes from Radikal, Shopify Platinum Partner. Don’t miss out! Register for FREE today ⤵

What if your biggest competitor isn't outranking you... it's getting recommended by AI instead? In this edition of Ecommerce AI Pulse, we explore why Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is becoming essential for ecommerce and what teams can do today to optimize search for AI-powered discovery. See how leading ecommerce teams are preparing for AI-first product discovery.

24 leading LLMs. 1,577 real shopping queries. Which models actually deliver? Algolia’s NEW LLM Leaderboard benchmarks leading models on real shopping queries using agentic search in Agent Studio. Not hypothetical prompts. Not vibes. Real search and shopping scenarios designed to show how these models perform when they actually have a job to do. We measured: → Answer quality across 3 dimensions → Quality vs. speed → Quality vs. cost → Open methodology and real tool-call traces → 95% confidence intervals to separate meaningful differences from noise Because choosing an LLM isn’t just about picking the model at the top of a generic benchmark. It’s about finding the right model for the job. See how 24 leading models stack up: https://bit.ly/4v8F3pd

Search just became part of the Vercel stack. 💪 We’re excited to announce that Algolia is now available as a native integration on the Vercel Marketplace, making it easier to bring powerful search to modern applications. With the new integration, developers can provision Algolia directly from Vercel, automatically sync credentials to their projects, manage billing in one place, and get search up and running in minutes. From one-click provisioning to a ready-to-deploy Algolia + Next.js starter, see how the integration brings search directly into the Vercel workflow and makes it faster to build your next search experience. 🔎 Explore the integration: https://lnkd.in/gXytSZFw

5 steps. One handy cheat sheet. Agentic commerce can get complicated fast, so we broke it down. Here’s a simple 5-step guide to bringing AI shopping experiences to your storefront with Algolia Agent Studio, from connecting trusted data and setting guardrails to launching faster and creating experiences that help shoppers discover, compare and buy. Keep this one handy, and check out the link in the comments to learn more.

Your merchandisers shouldn’t need an engineering ticket to improve search. With Algolia, Gymshark went from heavily manual merchandising to nearly “set and forget,” giving their team more control while increasing search conversion from ~6% to 10%+ Want the playbook behind Gymshark’s results? The link is in the comments.

eTail™ Boston gave us a front-row seat to where ecommerce is headed, and how much stronger the shopping experience gets when AI search and human insight work together. We spent the week connecting with hundreds of retail and ecommerce leaders, sharing how Algolia helps over 18,000 businesses worldwide turn AI search into real business results, because we believe the best AI discovery starts with the best search. Thank you to everyone who demoed Agent Studio, joined our wine and dine lunch, or tried their luck at our Pokémon vending machine (fan favorite, now in Boston). Great conversations, gotta-catch-em-all energy, and the perfect way to close out an inspiring few days at #eTailBoston! Matthew Eisnor Andrew McBean Jade P. Tara Haisenleder Tyler Greff Sarah Gardner Alex Rodriguez, MBA Hanna (Daboul) Shaw Tim Genova

📣 The #AlgoliaDevCon 2026 agenda just dropped! Our annual virtual developer conference is back in a new, focused format, exploring what developers are building as we move beyond traditional search and into the agentic era. On the agenda: 🤖 Taking AI agents from prototype to production 🔌 MCP + coding agents 🛠️ Agent Studio + NeuralSearch 🍷 A Shopify AI sommelier built on Algolia 🔐 Real lessons on shipping agents safely Expect practical demos, technical deep dives, and real-world builds from Algolia developers and our community. Featuring talks from Stephen Lynch, Micah Garside-White, Tal Peleg, Nate Barad, Tatyana (Tanya) Herman, Natan Yagudayev, Marwan Burelle, Emir Belkahia, and Tom Claes from Radikal, Shopify Platinum Partner. 📅 October 1 | Virtual + free Explore the agenda and save your spot: https://lnkd.in/eaqt4BGf