Copilot Turns into a Shopping Assistant

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A smaller newsletter today.

Copilot just learned how to close a sale, and the ripple effects across AI, e‑commerce, and product design are huge.

Here’s what Microsoft’s latest move means for how we shop, build, and work.

Let’s get right into it.

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Copilot now handles checkout

• 🤝 Powered by: AI built for better customer experience

• 🤿Deep Dive: OpenAI grabs another startup team

• ⚒️Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity

• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft Launches Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents to Close Sales Faster

Intelligence: Microsoft rolled out Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents, letting shoppers buy products directly inside Copilot conversations without leaving the chat. Merchants stay as the merchant of record and own customer data, while Shopify stores get automatically enrolled with no integration needed.

• Early data shows Copilot-assisted shopping journeys led to 53% more purchases within 30 minutes, and when shopping intent is clear, they're 194% more likely to convert compared to regular browsing sessions.

• Brand Agents work like knowledgeable store associates on your website, speaking in your brand's voice and guiding customers from questions to checkouT. Alexander Del Rossa saw 3X higher conversion rates in agent-assisted sessions.

• Brand Agents deploy in hours through Microsoft Clarity's free analytics platform, offering dashboards that track engagement rates, conversion lift, and average order value compared to organic traffic.

• As Copilot Checkout expands across Bing, MSN, and Edge, merchants automatically gain reach without new integrations, with Microsoft partnering with Mastercard and Visa on payment solutions like Mastercard Agent Pay.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

OpenAI Acquires Convogo Team in Ninth Deal This Year

Intelligence: OpenAI acquired the team behind Convogo, a platform that helps executive coaches automate leadership assessments and feedback reports, in an all-stock deal. The three co-founders join to work on OpenAI's "AI cloud efforts" while Convogo's product shuts down, marking OpenAI's ninth acquisition in a year as it uses M&A to grab talent quickly.

• Convogo started as a weekend project to help an executive coach's mother automate report writing so she could focus on actual coaching, growing to serve thousands of coaches and top leadership firms over two years.

• The founders told users they're joining OpenAI because the real challenge isn't new model capabilities, it's building thoughtful, purpose-built experiences that translate AI possibilities into real-world outcomes for professionals.

• Nearly all of OpenAI's recent acquisitions follow the same pattern: either fold the product into OpenAI's ecosystem (Sky, Statsig) or shut it down entirely as the team joins (Roi, Context.ai, Crossing Minds).

• The only exception is OpenAI's deal with Jonny Ive's io Products, which continues its own product roadmap as the two companies collaborate on AI hardware.

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