Buy Box, SEO & More—AI Agents for e-commerce in Action

How AI can boost your online shop. Discover how practical AI applications – from Buy Box optimisation to smarter SEO – can give your e-commerce strategy a winning edge.

30 June, 2025

E-commerce is at a pivotal moment, offering significant potential for efficiency gains. In the time it takes to read this article, an AI agent could already have adjusted dozens of prices to drive sales, fine-tuned your product content, and reallocated your marketing budget – all in real time.

What sets AI agents apart is their ability not just to detect patterns, but to act on them autonomously. Unlike traditional automation tools or AI-assisted workflows, they make decisions independently and execute them instantly – whether it’s repricing to secure the Buy Box, optimising content for better rankings, or reallocating ad spend to the most profitable keywords.

For e-commerce leaders, this means no more manual tweaks or sluggish response times. Instead, you set the strategic goals – and let the AI agents handle the day-to-day execution. The result? Stronger margins, improved visibility, and more time to focus on growth.

Three key areas where AI agents are already delivering measurable results

1. Buy box optimisation – Boost sales without eroding your margins

The Buy Box determines which offer customers see first – and is responsible for up to 80% of all sales. Traditional repricing strategies often focus solely on undercutting the competition, which quickly erodes margins. AI agents, however, take a more nuanced approach. They factor in elements like delivery times, seller ratings, stock availability, and advertising pressure – all of which can influence who wins the Buy Box.

If a competitor lowers their price, for instance, the AI agent assesses whether their delivery time is significantly longer. If so, it may decide to keep your price steady while still securing the Buy Box – protecting both visibility and profit.

The payoff: more time in the Buy Box, healthier margins, and smarter, data-led pricing strategies.

2. SEO Content Booster – Bridge ranking gaps in hours, not weeks

Keyword research, snippet optimisation, and multilingual content production can tie up considerable resources in content teams. An AI agent continuously monitors top-performing competitor listings, identifies opportunities for improvement, and automatically generates enhanced product copy.

It detects missing keywords, weak structural elements, and gaps in product descriptions. Based on this analysis, the agent creates brand-aligned titles, bullet points, and structured data – all optimised to boost rankings, and, if needed, in multiple languages at once.

Marketing teams remain fully in control, deciding whether to approve the content as is or fine-tune it further.

Result: Higher visibility in search results, reduction of the content backlog and more time for strategic marketing tasks.

3. Smarter Bidding – Maximise ROI with Intelligent Budget Allocation

Traditional keyword budgeting remains a time-consuming task, demanding extensive manual effort and analysis. An AI agent, by contrast, continuously monitors keyword performance and dynamically reallocates budgets to where they deliver the highest return on investment – all without the need for ongoing human intervention.

It factors in key variables such as conversion rates, competitive pressure, time of day, and seasonal trends. The agent identifies high-performing keyword combinations, flags underperforming terms, and adjusts bids in real time in response to market shifts.

While the marketing team sets the overall strategy, the agent handles the execution – from niche long-tail keywords to high-competition search terms.

The result: higher conversion rates, lower cost-per-click, and maximum return on your advertising spend.

From the XPLN whitepaper
The AI Agent Playbook for E-Commerce

AI agents are the next step and optimise digital commerce through automation, dynamic adjustments and data-based decision-making. Leading research institute Gartner predicts that AI agents will make around 15% of all business decisions by 2028.

Time to take action – reimagining e-commerce with AI agents

AI agents are no longer a futuristic concept – they’re a proven evolution of today’s e-commerce technologies. Those who hesitate now risk handing their competitive edge to others. And the benefits are clear: dynamic pricing , streamlined content workflows , and maximum advertising impact.

Instead of relying on manual effort and reactive fixes, you can turn to intelligent systems that learn continuously and adapt in real time – fully automated, scalable, and efficient. That means more time to focus on what truly drives your business: vision, strategy, and innovation.

Now is the moment to hand over operational control to AI agents – and take charge of shaping the future of e-commerce. Are you ready?

Ida Lorenz
Marketing Manager
Whether buy box optimisation, intelligent content or retail media management - XPLN supports you in identifying and implementing the optimal area of application for AI agents in your e-commerce.