Personalisation

Personalised Recommendations Agent

Show every customer recommendations that actually fit — drawn live from their history and your catalogue. No generic “you might also like”. It reasons over real data and can even explain why.

  • Live in days
  • Your data stays yours
  • Answers in seconds

The problem

Generic recommendations don't convert

“You might also like” blocks ignore where the customer actually is in their journey. They're rule-based guesses — and customers can tell. The result is decision fatigue and lost revenue on every session.

A real recommendation engine usually means an ML pipeline, training data, and a dedicated team. Most businesses can't justify that just to suggest the next product.

The fix

Recommendations that actually fit

A Recommendations Agent reasons over your live customer history and catalogue through MCP. It suggests genuinely relevant next steps — and can explain why, which builds trust and clicks.

No model training, no ML infrastructure. Configure it once, call it from your app or email, and your customer data stays in your environment.

Out of the box

Real questions, real answers. Tuned to each customer.

The agent reasons over live history and your catalogue — so suggestions feel personal instead of templated.

What should I buy next?

Suggests a genuinely relevant next pick from your catalogue.

Got anything like this?

Finds close matches based on the item they're viewing.

What goes with my last order?

Recommends complementary items that actually fit.

I'm new here — where do I start?

Guides first-timers with context-aware suggestions.

Show me something in my size.

Filters recommendations by their saved preferences.

Why are you suggesting this?

Explains the reasoning to build trust and clicks.

How it works

Four steps in the dashboard. The last one is a POST.

01

Create the agent

Add an agent, choose a model — GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini — and write a short system prompt that says what its job is. Five fields, no code.

Recommendations Assistant
SettingsKnowledgeMCPConversationsVersions

Name

Recommendations Assistant

Provider

OpenAI

Model

gpt-4o

Temperature

0.3
Create Agent

System Prompt

You are a shopping assistant for [Brand]. Suggest genuinely relevant products using get_recommendations. Briefly explain why. Keep it warm and helpful.
02

Connect your Insights API

On the agent's MCP tab, register your Insights API as an MCP server. SentientOne discovers the get_recommendations tool on its own, and your credentials never leave your environment.

Recommendations Assistant
SettingsKnowledgeMCPConversationsVersions
Search
Add MCP Server

Name

Insights API

Transport

HTTP

URL

https://mcp.yourstore.com/mcp

Auth Type

Bearer Token
Insights APIget_recommendations Connected · 1 tool
03

Test it in the Playground

Ask the questions your users actually ask. The agent calls your API, reads the live response and answers in plain language. Adjust the prompt until it reads the way you want.

Playground
Recommendations AssistantOpenAI · gpt-4o
What should I buy next?
get_recommendations
Based on your history, the Trail Runner GTX is a great next pick — it pairs with your last order.
Type your message…
04

Go live with one request

Copy your API key and POST from your app. There is no SDK to install — anything that can make an HTTP request is already supported.

API Keys

Platform API key

sk-live-9f2a••••••••••••3c7dCopy

API endpoint

Chathttps://api.sentientone.ai/v1/chat
POST /v1/chat
X-Api-Key: sk-live-•••
X-Agent-Id: personalised-recommendations-agent

{ "message": "What should I buy next?" }

Why SentientOne

Why teams ship this with us. Instead of building it.

Ship it without an AI team

No ML hires, no prompt infrastructure, no model plumbing. You configure the agent in the dashboard — and we'll set up the MCP server that wraps your Insights API at no extra cost.

Your data stays in your estate

The MCP server runs on your infrastructure. SentientOne receives the tool response and nothing else — not your database, not your credentials, not your records. Self-host the whole platform if that's the requirement.

Works with the stack you have

Any REST or gRPC API connects through MCP. One HTTP endpoint covers React, Flutter, Python, .NET and Go — anything that can make a request. No SDK to adopt.

Change the model, not your code

Run GPT-4o today and Claude tomorrow by changing a dropdown. When your API changes you update one tool definition — no retraining, no redeploy.

We replaced our rule-based 'you might also like' with an agent that actually reasons over each customer. Revenue per session jumped, and we didn't hire a single ML engineer.
Head of Growth, online marketplace

The outcome

What changes once it’s live.

15–30%
typical lift in revenue per session
Day one
works on your existing data — no training
Private
your customer data stays in your environment

Questions

Before you build it.

Something still unclear? Ask us directly — a person answers.

How long does it take to go live?

Most teams are answering real questions within days. There is no model to train and no AI pipeline to build — you connect your API and configure the agent.

Do we need AI engineers?

No. The agent is configured in the dashboard, and we'll set up the MCP server that wraps your Insights API at no extra cost.

Is our data safe?

The MCP server runs in your environment and returns only the specific tool response. Your database, your credentials and your raw records never reach SentientOne.

What happens with questions it can't answer?

You set the boundaries. Anything outside product recommendations is handed to your team with the whole conversation attached, so nobody starts from scratch.

Which models can we use?

GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and Groq. Pick one from a dropdown and change it whenever you like — your prompts, tools and integration stay exactly as they are.

How does it reach our users?

One HTTP endpoint. Drop it into the chat widget, app or site you already run — React, Flutter, Python, .NET, Go, anything that makes a request.

Free white papers

Read the longer version.

Improve Your Search with Agentic AI — white paper cover

Improve Your Search with Agentic AI

Most businesses still run a keyword search bar over a catalogue that customers describe in plain language. The gap between the two is lost revenue — every day. This guide shows how to move from keyword matching to natural-language search, and how to deploy a production-grade Product Search Agent in days, not months.

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Improve Your Customer Support with AI Agents

Support queues grow faster than headcount, and every minute a customer waits chips away at trust. Most teams paper over the gap with canned macros and after-hours auto-replies that never actually resolve the issue. This guide shows how AI agents handle the repetitive tickets end to end, escalate the ones that need a human with full context, and give your team back the hours they spend on copy-paste answers.

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