Enable AI Search

In this document, we are going to cover how you can enable AI Search for your website. AI Search provides incredible context to what your users are searching for on the website, and it reduces the work that you have to do to clean up or enrich your product data with keywords, synonyms, or additional content.

For example, if you carry Reciprocating Saws on your website and refer to them as Reciprocating Saws in your product data, then users searching on that term will get relevant results. However many people refer to these as Sawzalls. So if you are using normal text based search, users searching for Sawzalls would not receive any results unless you include Sawzall in your product's keywords, description or synonyms.

However, AI Search uses context to return relevant results for the user's search term, and it knows that Sawzalls are a brand of Reciprocating Saws. So if a user searches on Sawzall, it will return your available Reciprocating Saws as the top search results. AI is also great at returning results for misspellings, different variations on search terms, and prompts. As mentioned previously, all of these capabilities greatly reduce the amount of effort required to maintain search synonyms, alternate spellings, product keywords and other enriched product data.

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Enable AI Search

1. Navigate to the Search Configuration screen
   
2. Here, you'll see several settings for AI Search. The first thing you'll want to do is set Enable AI Product Search to Yes and then click Save.
   
3. Once that is complete, Kodaris will begin training the AI model with your product data. Please note that all of your data is kept private, and this process can take up to an hour to complete. Once it finishes, you will receive an email notifying you that it is complete.
4. After the AI model training is complete, go back to the Search Configuration screen and set Enable AI Product Search For Employees to Yes, then click Save. This setting allows you to test out the AI Search before enabling it for your customers.
   
5. To test out the AI Search as an employee, make sure you are logged into the Operations Portal, and then go to your website in a new tab. Any search you make will now be using AI Search.
   
6. Once you are ready to enable the AI Search for your customers, go back to the Operations Portal and the Search Configuration screen, and then update Enable AI Product Search For All Users to Yes and click Save.
   
7. Now the AI Search is available for all of your users, including your customers that are searching on the website.