The world's cheapest AI search for ecommerce?
Yes, most likely. But why is it 100% FREE?It's probably not what you think.
Why doesn't M:AI Search cost anything?
First let me thank you for taking the time to learn about us.
I'm Johan Lindstedt, founder of Mesh Nordic AI, the company that built M:AI Search. AI solutions abound, but very few are truly user-friendly.
M:AI Search provides a genuinely user-friendly search experience so that your customers can easily find the right products in your ecommerce store. Whether they're searching by colors, sizes, in varying languages, happen to misspell, or use plural words, M:AI Search will find the product if it's available in your store.
To easily find products, we've custom-built a hybrid AI search engine. Today, the e-commerce platforms Shopify, WooCommerce and Headless Commerce are supported, and it can be extended to more systems with our API.
Let me clarify the following:
● How M:AI Search can help you not to lose a large part of your advertising costs● What's the issue with on-site search, and how to fix it● Our business model, our "why" and purpose● How to calculate which model gives you the most profit
I’ll also provide my details in case you have further questions.
Why build a user-friendly AI product search?
We searched for a long time without finding anyone who could solve our needs with a really good product search in ecommerce.
The apps and search functions we found had serious flaws, either in usability or intelligence - or they didn't work on mobile - where most people shop today!
Most importantly, of all the companies we tested, none could solve the real problems of product search faced by e-tailers, without losing tons of visitors.
According to Nosto Ecommerce report february 2023:● 69% of online shoppers go straight to the search bar.● 80% leave the search bar, dissatisfied with the on-site search.● 39% abandon the online store without finding relevant products.
For you as an e-tailer, this means that a large part of your ADS and SEO advertising costs are wasted! This huge problem can be greatly improved by using M:AI Search.
We started this journey as creators of an ecommerce platform
At that time, we had 600 e-tailers paying for our ecommerce platform, which was amazing! But we aimed higher.
In 2018, we really wanted to help e-tailers increase their sales. The goal was to keep visitors longer on each ecommerce site and encourage more purchases, but in a way that felt pleasant for the visitors.
It quickly became clear that product search was crucial for an ecommerce business to grow. We were looking for a company that had built a truly user-friendly and intelligent product search. It should help visitors easily find the products they wanted, and ideally as an app we could integrate into our own ecommerce platform. We were hoping for a collaboration where our platform could be extended with their product search.
After searching the entire market for several months and trying a variety of product searches, we were very dissatisfied. The various product searches did not provide the search results we expected, not even close. They were not user-friendly and often provided a poor search experience. Many times we got the message that kills online sales: "No products found". We tried to talk to the companies that had built these solutions, but they wouldn't listen to feedback.
Fast forward to today, 2025. We still find the same issues in most ecommerce platforms' on-site product search. The search experience and features available can not be appealing to many e-tailers. Many businesses must be experiencing the same thing.
● The requirements for product search are too low and nowhere near the e-tailers' needs. What could be more important in an ecommerce than helping customers find the right products?
● Many useful and obvious features are usually missing. For example, keyword highlighters, correct spelling mistakes, showing thumbnails of variants, and viewing stock status and stock quantity almost never exist.Don't visitors want to know if they can actually buy the product? This is incomprehensible to us.
● Multi-stores & multi-tenant. To be able to install the product search on multiple ecommerce stores with a single login.It shouldn't be difficult to install, a few clicks should be enough.
What differentiates our business model?
Model 1: Keeping your current product search
If you keep using your current on-site search instead of an intelligent AI search, you may end up having many dissatisfied visitors (80%). Those visitors probably won't convert into paying customers.
Statistically, many visitors (39%) will eventually abandon your online store altogether. They'll find another e-tailer with a better product search.
Model 2: The traditional SaaS model
A traditional SaaS company in ecommerce is subscription-driven and sells software for e.g. $200 / user per month. They usually compete with other SaaS companies for the most features.
If they manage to sell you 1 seat and keep you subscribed for 12 months, the LVC (Lifetime Value of a Customer) is $2,400. So they can’t afford to spend too much time with you over a 12-month period, or their model becomes unprofitable.
Model 3: The Mesh Nordic model
A value-driven model like M:AI is one where we give you our AI software for free, and as a result, may obtain mass adoption.
Should you decide to subscribe to any of our subscription plans (with zero pressure to do so), then we'll train the AI search engine for you and your Ecommerce business.
Ecommerce and AI are our core business and what we do best.
Calculate which model gives you the most profit
Let's assume you have 50,000 unique visitors per month, and your online revenue is $50,000/month.Then each visitor equals $1.
Model 1: Keeping your current product search50,000 visitors x 69% go straight to the search bar x 39% abandon your store = 13,455 visitors are lost, on average. Probably never to return again. Hence, $13,455 / month is lost.
Model 2: The traditional SaaS modelIf 13,455 visitors are lost, on average, and we assume that the traditional SaaS company manages to rescue 5% of those visitors.13,455 x 5% = 673. Now you lose 13,455 - 673 = 12,782 visitors, which is a bit less.In total $12,782 + $200 for the SaaS software = $12,982 / month is lost.
Model 3: The Mesh Nordic modelWe at Mesh Nordic have been building ecommerce platforms for 25 years and working with AI and product search for many years. Feel free to compare M:AI Search with other solutions in AI product search, also on mobile. You will quickly see the difference in ease of use and intelligence. We believe M:AI is unbeatable for the price, both for the free plan and the subscription plans.
* The calculation models above are based on the statistics in Nosto's E-commerce Report Feb 2023
All statistics indicate that M:AI Search will save you thousands of dollars. Give it a try, it's 100% free, so you have nothing to lose!
In summary
I hope you've gotten to know us a bit more now and that you better understand why we've built a free AI search engine using MACH and SaaS technologies.
We sincerely hope that M:AI Search will boost your ecommerce business too.
I'm available for ideas and advice on how to best use AI in ecommerce. Connect with me on LinkedIn, and I'll be happy to have a chat with you and surely learn something from you too.
P.S. If you're not yet bored with all the information and want to know more, keep on reading about us.
Welcome to Mesh Nordic and M:AI Search!