Algolia

Cheerio Paris, hello London! Our CEO Stephen Lynch’s listening tour arrives in the UK 🇬🇧 ✨ Stephen spent a couple of days in our London office this week connecting with teams and hearing perspectives from across the organization. The office was full throughout the visit, with a highly engaging AMA, plenty of 1:1 conversations, and great discussions across the board. He also met in person with executives from ASOS.com and Frasers Group, continuing to strengthen our relationships with key customers. Cheers to everyone who took the time to join, share, and connect. Next up, Sydney 🇦🇺✈️

Cheers to the Frasers Group team on the launch of Ask Frasers 👏 This is a powerful example of how AI is transforming the retail experience, moving beyond traditional search to truly conversational, context-aware discovery. It’s great to see such strong early results as customers engage in a more intuitive, personalized, and seamless way to explore products. We’re proud to power this experience with Algolia’s Agentic capabilities and to support FRASERS in setting a new benchmark for modern, premium retail.

What if users never had to search, click, or navigate again? See how AI is taking over discovery with Algolia’s Piyush Patel at Adobe Summit 2026 For years, digital experiences have relied on users to do the work. Clicking. Filtering. Navigating. That model is breaking. In this session, Piyush will explore how brands can shift the burden of discovery from users to AI, delivering real-time, intent-driven experiences powered by Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and Algolia. You can expect: 🔹 Orchestrating Adobe + Algolia into one unified system 🔹 Eliminating navigation and static journeys 🔹 Delivering real-time, intent-driven AI experiences 📅 Monday, April 20 | 4:30 PM PT 📍 Las Vegas + Virtual ⭐ Learn more + save your seat: https://lnkd.in/e9tjAeBr #AdobeSummit #AdobePartner #AgenticAI

If you’re building AI agents today, you’re not choosing an LLM. You’re choosing the right LLM for a specific job. And that’s a much harder problem. That’s why we built the Algolia LLM Leaderboard: https://lnkd.in/ex_x8mBy It evaluates models inside real search and shopping agents using live data, not abstract benchmarks. The takeaway. Rankings can be misleading. The right choice depends on your specific task and constraints. See which models make the cut in the latest Hashing It Out: AI Newsletter ⤵️

Our new CEO Stephen Lynch’s listening tour continues, and Paris was simply magnifique 🇫🇷 ✨ It was a great few days in our Paris office, full of meaningful conversations, fresh perspectives, and stronger connections. Stephen spent time listening to our teams and meeting with customers, whose feedback reinforced the strength of our product and the people behind it. Back in the office, the momentum was strong, with a packed schedule of AMAs with both in-person and remote teammates, 1:1s, deep dives with our R&D teams, and thoughtful discussions sparked during Show & Tell, all rounded off with a memorable team happy hour. Merci to everyone who made it such a special stop on the tour. Next up, London and Sydney ✈️

Search is no longer enough. Shoppers expect experiences that understand them. See how it’s done → https://lnkd.in/eMjdDA54 80% of shoppers abandon a site after just one poor product discovery experience. For a $300M+ brand, that’s millions in lost revenue every year. The problem isn’t your catalog. It’s that your experience can’t interpret shopper intent. Join Algolia and Valtech to see how Shoe Carnival, Inc. is redefining product discovery with an AI-powered shopping assistant, built in just 6 weeks. Discover how to: → Move from static search to intelligent shopping assistants → Understand shopper intent, occasion, and constraints in real time → Deliver relevant products instantly, with full merchandising control → Launch a $50–75K AI POC that drives real results No generic chatbot demos. Just real use cases, real architecture, and real outcomes. 📅 April 16, 2026 🕘 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT

🎾 Game. Set. Scale. Join us at OMR in Hamburg to explore how Tennis-Point transformed its ecommerce experience with AI search at the core. On May 5th, join Alexander Arnsteiner from Algolia for a masterclass exploring Tennis-Point’s move to Shopify and how Algolia AI Search and Discovery enables fast, relevant shopping experiences across multiple countries and languages. Together with insights from Tennis-Point's Marius Grewe, you’ll get a clear look at the decisions behind the transformation and how search is used as a lever for growth in complex ecommerce environments. Register for the #OMR26 Masterclass: https://bit.ly/4bWzTW1 05 May 2026 | 12:15–13:15 📍Track 20 #OMR2026 #AISearch #DigitalTransformation

Introducing Algolia’s NEW LLM Leaderboard! 📊 ✨ How do today’s leading LLMs actually perform on real-world shopping queries? We put 24 models to the test across 1,577 queries using Agentic Search in Agent Studio, Algolia’s platform for building search and discovery agents. Here’s what makes it different: • Evaluated across 3 core quality metrics • Fully open methodology • 95% confidence intervals for transparency • Every model, every dimension, fully explorable No hype, no cherry-picking. Just real results you can dig into. Link in the comments to explore the full leaderboard 👇

AI-powered search is taking center stage at #AdobeSummit. Join Algolia in Las Vegas to see what’s next for your Adobe stack. Unify AEM, AEP & Adobe Commerce to power faster, more personalized discovery with agentic and generative experiences, seamless search, and real business impact. 📆 April 20–22 | 📍 Booth # 2111 • Las Vegas Schedule a demo & meet the team onsite: https://lnkd.in/eMTKdagY

Great energy at Algolia’s NYC HQ this week as we welcomed our new CEO, Stephen Lynch, alongside members of our ELT. From bagels at breakfast to great conversations over lunch, it was a fantastic moment to connect, meet new faces, and build momentum together. A highlight: Stephen’s AMA, where he shared his vision for bringing the company together around our strategy, his focus on grit, and his plans for a global listening tour in his first 30 days. A great kickoff, fueled by open conversations and a shared vision for what’s ahead. Next stops: Sydney, Paris and London.