Product.ai is the verification layer for commerce. Built on a patent-pending adversarial reasoning method that stress-tests product claims against physics, economics, and engineering constraints, Product.ai delivers verified purchase verdicts, not summaries. Product.ai tells consumers when NOT to buy. Product.ai grew out of Demand.io, a profitable, bootstrapped AI commerce company whose SimplyCodes platform processes over $1B in annual transaction value with a small team. Founded by Michael Quoc.
Business Insider
AI can’t take over your holiday shopping quite yet, a new study suggests
September 25, 2026
Business Insider built its holiday shopping story around Product.ai’s AI Shopping Divergence Study, which asked the free and paid versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity 220 shopping questions. Across 8,794 answers, the engines contradicted each other on prices, specs, and which products are current.
NerdWallet
What AI Can (and Can’t) Do for Your Shopping
September 23, 2026
NerdWallet opened its guide to shopping with AI on Product.ai’s 2026 Trust in AI Commerce Report, which found that 43% of U.S. online shoppers have used an AI assistant for product research in the past 90 days and 86% of them checked its pick against another source before buying. The story has since run on more than 125 local news sites.
Scripps News
AI Shopping Assistants Growing in Popularity, But Consumer Trust Still Lags
July 30, 2026
Scripps News took Product.ai’s 2026 Trust in AI Commerce Report national, running the story online and across its broadcast television network. The piece centers on the report’s finding that shoppers increasingly research purchases with AI assistants but remain slower to trust them with the purchase itself.
Entrepreneur
AI Is Changing How Your Business Shows Up on Google — Take These 5 Steps to Adapt
June 23, 2026
Michael Quoc, founder and CEO of Product.ai, lays out five steps for businesses as AI agents change how customers find them, from auditing the discovery stack to restructuring product data so agents can retrieve it.
Forbes
AI Agents Can Discover and Buy. They Can’t Verify.
June 1, 2026
Michael Quoc, founder and CEO of Product.ai, argues that AI shopping agents can discover and buy products but can’t verify whether claims about them are true, and lays out the verification layer agentic commerce is missing.
Built In
How 3 Employers Ensure Fair Hiring Practices
April 29, 2026
ClickMint, Outpost Space and Product.ai share the practices that help them hire great talent fairly and consistently, including scorecards, calibration sessions and paid trial projects.
Fast Company
Every AI Gives You the Same Answer — That Should Worry You
March 25, 2026
Michael Quoc, founder and CEO of Product.ai, describes the “beige singularity,” the moment when the full spectrum of human knowledge collapses into one confident, often incorrect answer.
MUSE Creative Awards · Gold
Product.ai Brand Guidelines2026
The Product.ai Brand Guidelines won Gold in the Corporate Identity, Style Guide category of the 2026 MUSE Creative Awards, an international design program.
MUSE Creative Awards · Silver
Product.ai Rebrand2026
The Product.ai Rebrand, the identity that replaced Demand.io, won Silver in the Corporate Identity Redesign category of the 2026 MUSE Creative Awards.