Layers Is Now Listed on 1800DTC
Layers is now in the 1800DTC directory of vetted DTC tools. Here's what our profile covers and why it matters if you run search and merchandising on Shopify Plus.
We're now listed on 1800DTC, the directory operators use to build their DTC stack. Our profile lives here. If you run a Shopify Plus store and you're weighing your options for search and merchandising, it's a quick way to see exactly what we do and who we do it for.
Why we joined a directory
I spent years at Proton building storefronts for Shopify Plus brands. The hardest part of almost every project was never the code. It was helping a team figure out which tools in their stack were actually worth the money, and which ones were enterprise price tags wrapped around software that had no idea what a metafield was.
Directories like 1800DTC exist to shorten that. Instead of sitting through five demos to work out who's Shopify-native and who's just Shopify-compatible, you get the shortlist in one place, next to the brands already running each tool. That's the kind of research I wish I'd had on the agency side, so putting Layers where operators are already looking was an easy call.
What's on our profile
The listing is a tight version of the full picture:
- AI Search that reads natural language, corrects typos, expands synonyms, and picks up intent inside a query like "red dress under $100"
- Merchandising your team runs without code: pin, boost, schedule rules, and preview every change on the live storefront before it publishes
- Visual Discovery with image search, similar products, and shop-the-look
- Recommendation Blocks tuned per surface, from the product page to the cart to checkout
- Real-time catalog sync, so a price change at 2pm shows up in search by 2:01
You'll also find the brands running on us, including Rainbow Shops, Kill Crew, Gorjana, and Negative Underwear, plus the case study on how Rainbow Shops rebuilt Salesforce-level merchandising on Shopify with us.
The short version
Come see the full profile on 1800DTC, or head straight to uselayers.com and we'll show you what this looks like on your own catalog.
Turn search intent into stronger product discovery.
Layers gives Shopify teams the ranking controls and AI search layer they need to improve every query.
Written by
Jake Casto
Founder, Layers
Jake Casto is the founder of Layers, the enterprise search and merchandising platform built for Shopify Plus. He previously co-founded Proton, a Shopify Plus engineering studio that shipped more than 400 storefronts, where Layers began as an internal tool for a problem that kept repeating. He writes about search infrastructure, performance, and the engineering behind discovery at scale.
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