Autoplay for Product Discovery

Shopify Computer Science/Mathematics, 2023–24

Liaison(s): Omas Abdullah, Alex Alspaugh, Colin Bendell, Angela Chen CMC ’21, Chloë Gautreau, Frank Liu ’13, Lloyd Wiredu
Advisor(s): Zachary Dodds, George Montañez
Students(s): Everett Butler (TL-S), Megan Chen, Ian Duffy, Nile Phillips (TL-F)

Shopify is a commerce platform that provides businesses with the tools and services needed to sell wherever customers are—online, in-person and everywhere in between. With a mission to “make commerce better for everyone,” Shopify strives to empower buyers in their quest for product discovery. Leveraging large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, the Shopify Clinic team has created “Autoplay for Product Discovery,” a gift-recommending app that diverges from conventional personalization algorithms and allows users to discover the products that they didn’t even know they wanted.