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Pattern Group Inc. Launches AI-Powered Ecommerce Engine ‘Pi’ to Automate Marketplace Growth

May 29, 2026
3 min read
Author: Joyce Onyeagoro

Pi is Pattern's AI-powered autonomous ecommerce execution engine that identifies opportunities and acts on them in real time, helping brand partners grow revenue, win market share, and build a stronger presence on the world's top marketplaces.

Pattern Group Inc.,  a leader in accelerating brands on global ecommerce marketplaces, announced the launch of Pattern Intelligence (Pi) at Accelerate, Pattern’s annual gathering of the world’s top ecommerce executives and brand leaders. Pi is Pattern’s AI-powered autonomous ecommerce execution engine that identifies opportunities and acts on them in real time, helping brand partners grow revenue, win market share, and build a stronger presence on the world’s top marketplaces.

Pi runs active sensors across featured offers, advertising, content, pricing, and inventory. When a sensor fires, automated action loops act immediately, capturing opportunities and protecting performance. In the event a decision needs brand judgment, Pi surfaces curated action items for approval rather than acting on its own. Every action is timestamped and becomes a searchable record of all work done on a brand’s behalf.

“Pi is our central execution engine. It doesn’t just surface insights, it acts on them. Pi is built on over 13 years of data collection, logic execution, and Pattern’s broader technology portfolio, with 41 patents issued or pending, purpose-built to accelerate growth for our brand partners.”

Dave Wright, Co-Founder and CEO, Pattern

Since deployment across Pattern’s brand portfolio, Pi has taken millions of automated actions, including featured offer recoveries, pricing adjustments, and content fixes, running 24/7.

 

Capabilities available to brand partners today:

  • Daily Brief and Podcast: a written and audio summary of a brand’s rolling 7-day performance, always on and available anytime
  • Chat-to-Data: on-demand answers to built-in ecommerce questions, backed by Pattern’s proprietary data
  • Pi Skills: pre-built automations for ecommerce workflows, each one informed by your brand’s knowledge base so every action stays on-brand
  • Knowledge Management System (KMS): a brand-controlled library where partners load their own guidelines, tone, and preferences directly into Pi, giving them control over how Pi acts on their behalf
  • Pi Chrome Extension: Pi’s intelligence meets teams where they already work, surfaced directly on Amazon product pages during live review sessions
  • AI Chat Apps: Pi is available in the ChatGPT app directory today, bringing Pattern’s proprietary ecommerce intelligence into the AI tools brand teams already use, with additional platforms coming soon

Pi is built on over 13 years of Pattern’s operational experience selling on behalf of global brands. Its 77T+ proprietary data points capture every pricing decision, featured offer recovery, content update, and advertising adjustment Pattern has made across its full brand portfolio, growing by more than 800 billion new points every week. Every data point represents a chance to act faster, price smarter, and grow more efficiently than a brand could on its own.

Pi is available to Pattern brand partners today at pi.pattern.com. Prospective partners can learn more at uk.pattern.com/pattern-intelligence.

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