SuggestAPISuggestAPI

The discovery layer

Search, understand, and discover any data.

One API for intelligent search and AI-ready discovery. Ingest from APIs, files, feeds, and sites, or connect the search you already run. SuggestAPI accelerates search, understands the request, and returns results applications and AI agents can use.

Keep the engine you have.

Why now

Discovery is not only the search box on your site

Customers still search on your site. But a product journey can now begin in a mobile app, inside an AI assistant, or through a shopping agent acting on someone’s behalf. Those are all discovery surfaces, and they all need a reliable way into the same catalog.

Website search and AI assistants both reach the same catalogDISCOVERY PATHSTwo ways in. One catalog.HUMAN SEARCHWebsiteAGENTIC DISCOVERYAI assistantSHARED ROUTESuggestAPIDiscovery layerCATALOGProducts

The usual answer is a pile of one-off integrations. That gets expensive to maintain fast.

SuggestAPI gives those surfaces a shared route into the infrastructure you already trust.

How SuggestAPI works

Where SuggestAPI sits

SuggestAPI sits between your product data and the experiences that need to use it. It does not ask you to replace Algolia, Typesense, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Shopify, or the rest of your stack. It gives each consuming experience the same discovery interface instead.

SuggestAPI sits between your current stack and every discovery surfaceTHE LAYER IN THE MIDDLEOne interface for every surface, on the stack you already run.YOUR CURRENT STACKShopifyAlgoliaTypesenseYour providerONE CONSISTENT INTERFACESuggestAPI discovery layerWebsiteApplicationsAI agentsNew surfaces

Your website can use /search. Your app can use /autocomplete. An agent can use structured discovery tools. Underneath, the source system can stay exactly where it is.

A stable interface

One interface, with your engine underneath

Search providers all have their own query rules, authentication patterns, ranking controls, and response shapes. If every application talks directly to every provider, the coupling starts to spread.

SuggestAPI normalizes the requests and responses at the edge. That means a frontend team can work with a stable interface while your search or commerce team keeps control of the provider underneath.

Agentic product discovery

How agents get into the catalog

Search boxes were built for people. Agents need a different kind of access: a way to understand what a merchant offers, what actions are available, and how to retrieve structured results.

SuggestAPI can expose those capabilities as machine-readable discovery tools. Depending on your implementation, that can include MCP, A2A, WebMCP, UCP, ACP, catalog search tools, capability descriptions, and agent-discovery metadata.

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Agent-ready discovery comparison showing brittle HTML scraping versus structured JSON product responses for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and shopping assistants.

Structured access

Agents need a contract, not a search box. The catalog stays the source of truth.

Why it matters

Fewer one-off integrations to maintain

Without a discovery layer, each new experience tends to grow its own direct link to your underlying system. With SuggestAPI, those experiences share one layer instead. Less duplicated work. Fewer brittle dependencies. A cleaner point of change when your stack evolves.

Many experiences share one SuggestAPI layer into commerce infrastructureROUTING MODELFewer connections to own.WebsiteMobile appAI agentSHARED LAYERSuggestAPIINFRASTRUCTURESearch engineCommerce stackAlgolia · Shopify · more

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Search abstraction

One interface across the providers, query syntax, and response formats already in your stack.

Bring your own search →

02

Agentic discovery

Structured tools and capability descriptions for systems that need more than a search box.

Google ARD →

Keep your engine

You do not have to migrate the search you already chose

SuggestAPI is not another search engine to migrate to. If Algolia works for you, keep it. If the catalog lives in Shopify, keep it there. SuggestAPI separates the experience using discovery from the engine that runs the query.

That separation matters when you want to change providers, add a new app, or make your catalog available to an interface that does not exist yet.

Make discovery portable without moving the foundation.

  • Provider-independent interface
  • Structured access for agents
  • Room to change what sits below

The short version

Give every surface a way into the catalog

Bring your current catalog and search stack to the web, apps, and the next generation of agents without rebuilding the foundation.

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