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With Thrifty AI, retailers innovate at scale with personalized AI assistants, whether it's driving online sales through humanized customer service or giving retail staff roleplay training.
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3 of 4 done1. Help the shopper
2. Train the store team
86% of consumers' buying decisions are influenced by emotional needs.
Meet those needs and shoppers reward you with loyalty and advocacy. Thrifty AI's artificial humans guide customers in real time, turning confusion and doubt into confidence and trust.
One avatar that serves customers on your website or in store through a kiosk, HoloBox, or robot, explaining products and solving problems around the clock.
Explain products, compare options, and recommend the right fit on your site, a kiosk, a HoloBox, or a robot.
Jump on a video call to demo a product, share the screen, and walk the shopper through to checkout.
Resolve support questions and collect feedback in 70+ languages, and remember each shopper for next time.
Which moisturiser works for dry, sensitive skin?
This fragrance-free one. Want me to show you how it compares on a quick video call?
Turn launches, pop-ups, and flagship stores into conversations with an artificial human on a robot, HoloBox, or kiosk.
A life-size hologram that greets visitors, tells your brand story, and answers questions on the spot.
Walk visitors through products and displays, in their language, without adding staff to the floor.
Run quick quizzes and surveys, capture contact details, and send them straight to your CRM.
The difference between staff who calm an upset customer with ease and staff who panic is practice. AI roleplay gives them a safe space to practise, and make mistakes, before the real thing.
Teach product knowledge and soft skills, and walk new staff through your POS and tools with screen share.
Rehearse returns, complaints, and upsells with a lifelike customer, then quiz what stuck.
Every session is scored and remembered, giving managers real data for coaching and learning conversations.
Our AI FDEs work inside your team to build custom solutions, so AI fits the way your stores and systems already run.
Map your store, e-commerce, and support workflows to find the highest-value places to start.
Connect your catalogue, inventory, POS, and CRM so the avatar works with live data, not a script.
Pilot, measure, and scale across stores, with your teams trained to run it day to day.
Thrifty AI's artificial humans bring the same features to every shopper and every trainee, on every screen.
Shoppers leave when no one can answer a product question, online carts are abandoned at checkout, and new store staff learn on real customers.
A Thrifty AI avatar advises shoppers on your website, store kiosk or HoloBox in 70+ languages, in our cloud, your VPC or offline.
Product comparisons, order status, returns and feedback on your website and app, around the clock.
Live demos with screen share that walk the shopper through to checkout.
A shop-floor assistant that explains products, checks stock and points to the right aisle, offline if needed.
A HoloBox brand ambassador at pop-ups and flagship stores that tells the brand story and captures leads.
New associates rehearse no-receipt returns and upsells with a lifelike customer before their first shift.
Thrifty AI does not publish customer benchmarks for this page yet. Measure these during the pilot and compare with your baseline:
1. Discovery
Week 1
Walk one store and your online funnel. Pick the first three shopper journeys and the channel (web, kiosk or HoloBox).
2. Build
Week 2–4
Create the avatar, load the catalogue and policies, connect POS, e-commerce, inventory and CRM through function calling.
3. Pilot
Week 5–8
Run in a few stores or one online category. Measure the KPIs above and tune recommendations and guardrails.
4. Rollout
Week 9 onward
Add stores, categories and languages. Hand over to your team or keep the AI FDE team on retainer.
Yes, through function calling against your inventory and POS. It tells the shopper which store or size has stock and quotes the current promotion. Checkout and payment stay in your existing flow.
Yes. The kiosk edition runs fully offline on Maya-Lite, with the catalogue stored on the device. It syncs orders and leads when the connection returns. Online channels use Thrifty cloud or your VPC.
The avatar plays a shopper, for example an upset customer with no receipt, and reacts in real time. Each session is scored and remembered. Managers see where each associate needs coaching and set the next scenario.
70+ languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Arabic, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. It switches language mid-conversation when the shopper does.
Cloud plans are priced per live avatar minute, from $0.04 per minute at scale. A self-hosted or offline kiosk deployment is an annual licence plus a per-minute rate. See /plans.
Want this built for you? Our forward-deployed engineers scope, build and run it with your team.
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In a 30-minute demo, we'll show you an AI shopping assistant and staff trainer built on your catalogue, on web, kiosk, HoloBox, or robot.