Search & Discovery Barometer

Drawing together cutting-edge insight from The Hive community, with proprietary benchmarking and a clear read on where AI is taking retail search.

AI is rapidly reshaping how customers find, evaluate and buy products and search built for keywords is starting to show its limits. We surveyed Retail Hive members on where they really stand: what’s working, what’s holding them back, and how ready they feel for discovery moving off-site entirely.

Discover where your peers rank on the search and discovery curve and what the smart movers are doing differently.

Download our brand new Barometer, for:

• A clear view of where search is falling short exclusive data on which parts of the discovery journey retailers rate as strong, adequate, or simply not working.
• First-hand perspective from Expondo and Chilly’s how two retailers are tackling scale, consistency, and AI-readiness in their own search setups.
• The investment picture for the next 12-18 months where budget is actually going across semantic search, personalisation, and agentic/conversational discovery.
• What it means when discovery moves off-site Algolia’s take on the shift toward agentic commerce, and the five-point mandate for retailers responding to it.