Show HN: Octogen: e-commerce capabilities for agents

5 points by marram 2 days ago

Hi HN,

We just released a public beta of e-commerce capabilities for AI agents — aimed at developers building shopping agents or personal assistants.

It’s early and buggy, but we’d love your feedback. Try a live demo here: https://showcase.octogen.ai/stylist

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## Why we built this

We believe the biggest *technical* bottleneck in building consumer e-commerce agents is fragmented product data and inconsistent schemas across online stores.

So we created a high-fidelity yet unified interface for *e-commerce catalog + checkout*, regardless of the underlying platform.

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## What it does

We currently offer two core capabilities:

### 1. Unified product catalog (for LLM-style search)

- Octogen automatically wrangles any ecommerce site into a common schema — a superset of `schema.org/Product`. - It works across platforms and is available today for hundreds of sites. - You can request new stores — ~95% are processed fully autonomously. - Useful for agents doing RAG-based product search with rich attribute awareness.

### 2. Agentic checkout (closed beta)

- Works on *any ecommerce site* using virtual cards (Visa only for now). - Enables agents to complete checkout flows much faster than browser-based "computer agents." - We're working on support for additional vaults/wallets/payment APIs.

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If you’re working on agentic commerce, autonomous checkout, or personal AI shoppers — we’d love your feedback and ideas. More at: https://octogen.ai