A branded AI shopping assistant that knows your products, recommends the right one, answers questions at any hour and never makes things up, on top of checkout that records every order correctly even when the customer closes the tab.

I built exactly this for a food brand, and the safeguards below are what most developers skip.

A branded storefront with product pages, a cart and checkout, built for phones first

Clear pricing, with a struck-through old price and a savings badge when you run an offer

Order confirmation pages and a confirmation email to the customer after payment

A wholesale route with its own enquiry form for bulk buyers

Search-ready product pages, sitemap, social preview images and legal pages

A branded assistant with its own name, personality and look, greeting visitors in your voice

It answers only from your own products and content, recommends real items by their exact names, and never invents a product, price, ingredient or certification

Recommendations appear as real clickable product cards, not a block of text

Works in more than one language, with a toggle. I built English and Hindi

A question box on your homepage: the customer types, lands in the assistant and gets the answer immediately, so nothing they typed is lost

Helpers in context: ask it to adapt a recipe or guide ("make it vegan", "halve it", "kid-friendly") or to talk you through a step while you cook

Safe for regulated products: it refuses medical advice and disease claims, points to a professional, resists attempts to override its instructions, stays on topic, and never reveals the technology behind it

Rate limits, clear error states and a visible disclaimer

Tested: a suite of fixed test questions checks it refuses medical claims, does not invent products, holds its instructions under attack and returns the right real items. It runs after every change to the assistant

Checkout with Stripe or whichever fits your country

The payment provider confirms every payment to my server with a signed notification, and I verify the signature before trusting it

The server, not the customer's browser, records the order as paid, so a sale is captured even if the tab closes or the connection drops

The same payment can arrive twice and the order is still recorded only once

Rate limits on checkout and forms to block abuse

Recipes, guides or how-to pages that show customers how to use what they bought, so they come back

For the food brand: 40 recipes with a serving scaler, a step-by-step cook mode, and save, share and print tools

A food brand store: 8 products, 40 recipes, checkout with webhook-confirmed payments, wholesale enquiries and a bilingual AI kitchen assistant

A seven language manufacturer and wholesaler site with a live inventory counter and filters by garment, size, colour and certification

An admin area to manage products, stock and orders

Subscriptions and a self-service billing portal, which I built for a recruiting platform

Shopify or WooCommerce setup, if one of those fits your team better

Order and customer data sent to a CRM

Free call: I learn what you sell and where, and confirm scope and price in writing

Build: you see a working store and assistant early

Test: I place test orders end to end and run the assistant's test questions

Launch, then 14 days of free fixes

WHAT I NEED FROM YOU Your products, photos, prices, shipping rules and a short note on your brand voice.

A launch checklist

A one page guide to handling orders

A list of customer questions the assistant could not answer, so you know what to add next

A test order run with you before you go live

RISK FREE You place a test order and try the assistant before the final payment. If it does not do what we agreed, you do not pay the final milestone.

Running costs: payment fees and AI usage go on your own accounts, and I estimate them before we start.