STAGE 01
Index
Vectors + Lexical hybrid catalog scan
Smarter Product DiscoveryThe Discovery Engine You Run Yourself
Hybrid semantic + keyword search, a full recommendation stack and AI catalog enrichment with no per-search fees, no data leaving your servers and one deployment for every storefront.
The ProblemGreat Shoppers Don't Waitfor Bad Search Results
Keyword search misses intent constantly. A shopper types "something formal under 3,000" and gets nothing, or worse, gets everything. Every dead-end search is a shopper who leaves, and most never come back to try again.
1 in 3 Searches Yield No Results
74% of shoppers bounce to a competitor or Google when search fails.
- Source: E-commerce UX benchmarks & catalog logs
~95x fewer→Dead Ends
0.35%
zero-result rate, live on buypass.pk
245,000+ real production searches measured- 99.65% of searches return relevant products
- Understands intent, not just keywords
What is Catalyst AIOne Engine for Search, Recommendations & Discovery
Catalyst AI replaces your search bar with one engine. Shoppers use plain language and the engine understands and reasons across your catalog to find the right product. It personalizes recommendations and trending items.
Search That Understands
Reads intent, not just keywords. Handles typos, synonyms and multi-turn questions seamlessly.
Discovery That Upsells
Recommendations, bundles and cross-sell surfaces, built from real shopper behavior and basket affinities.
Ranking That Learns
Every click improves the next shopper's results automatically. No quarterly manual reranking required.
Analytics That Prove It
Every order traced back to the search that started it, in real time. Full GMV and conversion attribution.
The ProcessHow It Works
Three steps from catalog to conversation
Connect Your Catalog
Push products through our API or feed. Multi-tenant by design, so your data stays isolated even on a shared marketplace.
The Model Learns Your Catalog
Hybrid retrieval and AI index products for meaning, not just keywords. Attributes and intent signals are extracted automatically.
Search and Discovery Go Live
Drop the search and recommendation widgets into your storefront. Shoppers start asking, refining and buying the same day.
IntegrationsPlugs Into the Commerce Stack You Already Run
Catalyst AI connects to your storefront, email and data tools through a simple API, a catalog feed and one lightweight event snippet. Event payloads are Algolia-compatible, so moving from a hosted search vendor is a config change, not a front-end rewrite. You keep your stack. Catalyst fits into it.
Smart SearchConversational Search Experience. Three Languages
Shoppers ask in plain language. English, Urdu or Arabic, the model reads intent, extracts product type, price range, color and brand, then keeps refining as the conversation continues.
Englishاردوالعربية
AICatalyst Shopper AssistantOnline · Multi-Language
"mujhe shaadi ke liye red lehnga chahiye under 15,000"
Bilkul! Aapke liye 3 top bridal & wedding red lehngas filter kiye hain under PKR 15k:
✦ Crimson Velvet Zari Lehnga
PKR 13,499 · 4.9 ★ (128 reviews)
"Kya aapko stitched chahiye ya unstitched?"
"أريد ساعة رجالية أنيقة ضد الماء"
Platform CapabilitiesEverything Your Store Needs to Discover & Convert
From conversational AI to visual search every intelligence layer, running on your own infrastructure.
Ranking That Improves ItselfEvery Click Makes the Next Search Better
The model doesn't wait for a quarterly review. It re-ranks continuously from real shopper behaviour, so the products that convert rise automatically and the ones that don't fall away.
STAGE 02
Enrich
Neural attribute mapping and metadata extraction
STAGE 03
Rank
Initial Hybrid Score configured dynamically
STAGE 04
Learn from Clicks
Real Basket Signals processed and mapped locally
STAGE 05
Re-rank
Continuous Uplift from autonomous loops
Intelligence AutomatedYou Set the Objective. The Engine Runs the Rest
Every search result is scored, ranked and personalized end to end. What's left for you to decide is small on purpose.
Human Decisions
What You Decide
Which products to promote or buryManual boost rules or seasonal spotlight priority when you need it.- Your revenue objectiveOptimize for margin, inventory clearance, new arrivals or pure GMV.
✦ Total management overhead: <15 minutes a week
Autonomous Execution
Everything Else Is AI
- Parsing intent & extracting filters
- Hybrid retrieval and ranking
- Self-learning from every click
- Recommendations & merchandising
- Multi-language query understanding (English, Urdu, Arabic)
Rerank latency: p95 < 22ms
100% Autonomous
Why Catalyst.aiNo Search Provider Comes Close
Traditional site search and generic search widgets weren't built for how people actually shop.
| Capability | Traditional Keyword Search | Generic Search Widgets | Catalyst AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversational, multi-turn search |  No | No |  Yes |
| Understands intent, not just keywords | No |  Partial | Yes |
| Hybrid retrieval (semantic + keyword) | No | Partial | Yes |
| Self-learning ranking from clicks | No | Partial | Yes |
| Multi-language (Arabic, Urdu, English) | No | Rare | Yes |
| Image search | No | Rare | Yes |
| Real-time, search-to-revenue attribution | No | Rare | Yes |
| Multi-tenant, marketplace-ready API | No | Partial | Yes |
Predictable EconomicsFlat Cost Not a Meter That Grows With You
Usage-metered pricing makes your invoice scale with every search, record, and impression so a flash sale, a seasonal peak, or a wave of AI-agent traffic costs you more precisely when you succeed. CatalystAI runs on your own infrastructure at a fixed cost: more traffic, a bigger catalog, more storefronts and AI-agent queries are all free.
10K5M / mo
Drag to model your traffic. Illustrative comparison against a typical usage-metered model (~$0.50–$1.75 per 1K requests plus record fees); CatalystAI is fixed infrastructure regardless of volume.
Usage-metered Model(est.)
$551Virtuosoft(self-hosted)
$420At this volume, a metered plan costs $131 more per month - 1.3x. Agent & bot traffic on Virtuosoft is free.
Structural AdvantagesA Fundamentally Different Architecture
These aren't feature checkboxes they're properties of the system: owned, inspectable and free of per-query economics.
01|Cost
Flat Cost, No Meter
No per-search, per-record or per-impression fees. Catalyst runs on your own infrastructure, so flash sales, seasonal peaks & AI-agent traffic never change the bill. Your cost is your servers.
02|Isolation
Database Per Tenant
Each tenant gets a physically separate Postgres database no WHERE tenant_id filtering. Cross-tenant leakage is impossible; deletion is a DROP DATABASE.
03|Sovereignty
Fully Local AI
Embeddings, enrichment, spell-correction and query understanding all run on-box. No external API on the hot path on-prem, VPC, and air-gapped, with zero data egress.
04|Catalog
LLM Enrichment + Review Gate
Auto-generate descriptions, tags, categories and attributes for sparse products — with an approve / reject / modify workflow so nothing hallucinated ever ships.
05|Trust
Deterministic Attributes
A zero-cost extractor reads only structured fields at ~170 items/sec, confidence 1.0 values that cannot be hallucinated, powering trustworthy shop-by-color/size/brand filters.
06|Control
Transparent Ranking
Every relevance and recommendation knob is database-configurable and auditable, with the scoring formula and before/after ranking exposed. The opposite of a black box.
07|Rigor
Retrieve → Rerank
Hybrid vector + BM25 fusion, then a neural cross-encoder re-scores the top candidates. Intent-tier gating and never-empty fallbacks throughout.
08|Governance
A/B + Config Promotion
Split live traffic with chi-squared significance and a plain-English verdict. Promote config dev → staging → prod with one-click rollback and immutable history.
09|Migration
Near-zero-rewrite Migration
Drop-in, standards-friendly event ingestion. Moving from a hosted search vendor becomes a config change, not a front-end rewrite.
Who It's ForBuilt for Teams Who Want to Own Discovery
Flexible AI-powered discovery built for growing businesses, modern platforms and teams that need control, scalability and seamless integration.
High-growth & Mid-market Retailers
Past a basic search app and feeling the metered "success tax" on every peak who want enterprise-grade discovery without enterprise pricing.
Marketplaces, Platforms & Agencies
Offer AI discovery to your customers. One deployment, many white-labeled tenants, no per-tenant fee.
Regulated & Sovereignty-sensitive
Finance, healthcare, public sector, EU. Zero-egress self-hosting is the only architecture that clears compliance.
Headless & Composable Commerce
CommerceTools, Hydrogen, Saleor. An API-first, multi-tenant engine that fits a composable stack and is ready for MCP / agent access
One Platform - 12 CapabilitiesThe Broadest Discovery Suite You Can Own
Search, recommendations, cart intelligence, merchandising, surfaces, demand forecasting, replenishment, gifting, analytics and a banking/finance engine all on the same self-hosted core.
Zero Search Fees$0 / Search
No SearchFees
Scales WithYou
TransparentCosts
The more you grow and the more AI agents shop on your behalf the more you save. Your cost is your servers and nothing else.
Calculate Your SavingWho Built This16+ Years Building Enterprise Systems That Work in Production
Virtuosoft is an enterprise technology and AI consulting firm with offices in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA and France. We have scaled 50+ startups and enterprises, impacted 50,000+ users and built systems across ERP, FinTech, cybersecurity and custom software engineering.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Catalyst AI is a drop-in replacement for your current site search and recommendation stack, with an Algolia-compatible event format to make migration straightforward.
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