Embedded E-commerce AI Chatbot
A sandboxed AI chatbot provisioned on demand into an e-commerce site to answer product questions, with infrastructure that only exists while it's in use.
- Role
- Software Engineering Intern
- Built
- August 2026
- Stack
- AI agent design, Sandboxing, E-commerce integration
The problem
An e-commerce site wants a chatbot that knows its catalogue. Standing one up the obvious way means infrastructure running whether anyone is using it or not, which doesn’t scale down to a smaller storefront.
What I built
A chatbot embedded into Guidepath’s software distribution storefront to answer questions about its catalogue of ERP and WMS modules, sandboxed and provisioned dynamically rather than kept running. Dynamic provisioning is what keeps the infrastructure cost proportional to actual use; the sandbox is what makes it safe to run alongside the rest of the site.
What I took from it
The interesting constraint wasn’t the chatbot, it was everything around it: how fast a sandbox can be stood up, and what has to already exist for that to feel instant to whoever is on the site.