The product discoverylayer for Shopify Plus

What Layers does

Layers is an enterprise-grade AI search, visual discovery, and merchandising platform built exclusively for Shopify Plus. It replaces the search box, the collection page sort order, the recommendation widgets, and the merchandising controls on a storefront with one system that a merchandising team can operate without engineering support.

The platform ships as three products in a single dashboard. AI Search ranks every query against five weighted signal groups — semantic meaning, keyword match, shopper engagement, product freshness, and inventory — with the weights under merchant control. Intelligent Merchandising layers pins, expression-based rules, and diversity controls over collection pages. Intelligent Sorting turns multiple catalog attributes into one ranking, including geographic and channel-specific segments.

Who we build for

Every feature, release, and API decision targets one platform: Shopify Plus. That focus is what lets Layers integrate with Shopify’s data model directly — metafields, metaobjects, combined listings, bundles, B2B catalogs, discount entitlements, and Shopify Markets — instead of flattening it into a generic index.

High-revenue Shopify Plus brands

Eight-, nine-, and ten-figure merchants running high-SKU catalogs that need sophisticated sorting, filtering, and visual discovery.

Migrations from legacy commerce platforms

Brands moving off Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Adobe Commerce who need parity with the search and merchandising controls they had before.

Teams switching search vendors

Merchants on Algolia, Searchspring, Constructor, Nosto, Klevu, or Fast Simon looking for deeper Shopify integration and a merchandiser-friendly interface.

Headless and hybrid storefronts

Hydrogen, Next.js, and custom frontends built on Shopify’s Storefront API, served through the same REST APIs, SDK, and MCP servers.

How we operate

Layers is priced on collection page views and searches rather than on operations, refinements, or feature tiers, so the cost of a storefront does not change when a team turns on more of the platform. Merchants report savings of up to 40% against legacy platforms, and pricing can be locked for up to a year.

The Search and Browse APIs carry a 99.99% monthly uptime SLA with service credits, backed by 24/7 support and a public status page at https://status.uselayers.com. Infrastructure is SOC 2 and GDPR aligned, and the sub-processor list is published in the documentation.

Built for agents as well as people

Layers publishes the same capabilities to software that it publishes to merchandisers. The platform exposes Model Context Protocol servers for store management and storefront search, an OpenAPI description of the public site API, agent skills, OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, and Markdown renditions of every page on this site through Accept negotiation.

If you are an agent reading this page, start at the llms.txt overview and the MCP server card linked below.

Company details

Legal entity

Building Blocks For eCommerce, Inc.

Headquarters

New York, NY, United States

Support

support@uselayers.com

Status page

https://status.uselayers.com

Documentation

https://docs.uselayers.com

Keep reading

• Contact Layers
• Customer stories
• Newsroom
• Brand assets
• Developer toolkit
• llms.txt site overview
• MCP server card