From AI Curiosity to AI in Production

Design, deliver, and scale AI capabilities that create measurable impact in the workflows that actually drive your business, without sacrificing governance or control.
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AI creates value only when it is operationalized. Embedded in real workflows. Governed responsibly. Aligned to the outcomes your business is actually measured on.

McFadyen helps organizations move from isolated AI pilots to production-grade intelligence embedded in the workflows that drive revenue, reduce cost, and serve customers at scale. Most organizations have run a pilot. What separates the leaders is the discipline to move from experiment to operating model.
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AI COMMERCE MATURITY ASSESSMENT

Where Does Your Business Stand on the AI Readiness Curve?

A self-serve benchmarking quiz that surfaces your AI readiness gaps and prioritizes what to fix first. Takes under 10 minutes.
THE PROBLEM

What Separates AI Pilots From AI That Scales

Most B2B AI initiatives produce promising pilots and limited production impact. The patterns are consistent across organizations:

  • AI use cases are selected for novelty rather than business impact
  • Data foundations are not structured to support reliable AI consumption
  • Ownership, operating models, and success metrics are undefined before the build starts
  • ROI measurement frameworks are not established alongside the AI investment
  • Governance and explainability frameworks are added after the fact, not built in from the start

The organizations that move past this pattern are not the ones with access to better models. They are the ones with better operating discipline, clearer ownership, and a partner who has built AI into real production environments before.

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What We Mean by AI Enablement

From Experimentation to Execution

AI enablement is the discipline of making AI work inside real business environments, not in a sandbox or a demo. It ensures models, prompts, and workflows operate reliably at the intersection of your ERP, your commerce platform, and your data architecture. That requires more than data science. It requires architecture, governance, and cross-functional alignment.

The organizations that succeed with AI aren't the ones with the best models, they're the ones with the best operating discipline.

Our AI Offerings

Named Services You Can Engage Today

These are the specific AI services McFadyen delivers. Each is scoped for real engagement, deployable against your current environment, and connected to measurable business outcomes, not theoretical ones.

AI Commerce Readiness Audit

Five-dimension gap analysis: SEO, performance, AEO/GEO readiness, content quality, accessibility


Instant prioritized report — free at audit.mcfadyen.ai


Identifies the specific data, content, and technical gaps and gives you a prioritized sequence for closing them

AI Commerce Maturity Assessment

Self-serve benchmarking quiz — assessment.mcfadyen.ai


Benchmarks readiness across data, infrastructure, governance, and use cases


Outputs a personalized roadmap snapshot for leadership


Under 10 minutes, no sales call required

AI Readiness Assessment & Enablement

Strategic evaluation of data infrastructure and team readiness


AI use case identification and ROI prioritization


AI adoption roadmap with phased milestones


Governance framework design with clear ownership and accountability built in before deployment begins

Conversational Commerce

AI chatbots for product discovery, order management, and support


Contract-aware pricing responses — returns customer-specific prices, not list prices


Integration with ERP, OMS, and PIM for real-time accuracy


Escalation paths to rep-assisted selling for complex deals

Product Catalog Data Enrichment

AI-generated product descriptions calibrated to your brand voice


Attribute enrichment across thousands of SKUs automatically


Semantic tagging for AI search and faceted navigation


Multi-language translation with commerce-specific accuracy


MSDS, safety, and regulatory attribute population

AEO/GEO Optimization Services

Answer Engine Optimization — structured content AI systems cite in responses


Generative Engine Optimization — content architecture for LLM-based discovery


JSON-LD FAQ schema implementation and validation


Authority signal building for AI-cited source status


Content gap analysis vs. AI-cited competitors

Our AI Delivery Capabilities

How We Deliver AI That Works

Our delivery capabilities span the full lifecycle from strategy through production, so AI investments compound rather than stall.
AI Strategy & Readiness

Use case prioritization by ROI and feasibility


Data and infrastructure gap assessment


AI adoption roadmap and operating model definition


Build vs. buy guidance for AI capabilities


Pilot-to-production sequencing with defined milestones and clear go/no-go criteria at each stage

Model & Workflow Delivery

Prompt engineering and fine-tuning for your commerce vocabulary


AI workflow design and integration — ERP, OMS, CRM, commerce platforms


Human-in-the-loop architecture — escalation triggers and override mechanisms


Partner AI feature implementation (Adobe, Mirakl, commercetools)


Chain-of-thought structuring for complex B2B decision workflows

Governance & Trust

Output monitoring and explainability reporting


Bias detection and quality controls


Escalation and override frameworks


Audit logging and regulatory compliance alignment


AI operating model definition — ownership, review, success metrics

Where AI Is Applied
Commerce-Focused Use Cases

We apply AI where it creates measurable impact in commerce and operations. Every use case listed here has been deployed in a real B2B environment, not staged for a demo.

    • Search and Product Discovery — AI-powered relevance, guided selling, and personalization
    • Personalization and Recommendations — behavioral, contextual, and account-based
    • Merchandising and Content Generation — AI-assisted catalog enrichment and copy
    • Conversational Commerce — AI chatbots for support, product search, and order management
    • Experimentation and Optimization — A/B testing velocity and intelligent decisioning
    • Operations and Support Automation — order routing, exception handling, ticket deflection
    AI in Practice
    Intelligence Is an Operating Model, Not a Toolset
    Sustainable AI adoption requires more than technology. It requires an operating model that aligns people, data, governance, and economics. McFadyen's approach is grounded in more than 300 B2B commerce implementations. We help you define what AI success looks like in your business, build the infrastructure to support it, and govern it in a way that earns and sustains organizational trust.
    AI in Practice
    Partner AI, Integrated Properly
    Your Adobe Commerce, commercetools, Mirakl, and BigCommerce platforms already have AI features being built into them. We implement and tune those capabilities for your specific catalog, pricing model, and buyer base, so you get the value of partner AI investment without starting from scratch.
    WHO THIS IS FOR

    Built for Complex Ecosystems

    Commerce & Operations Leaders

    You are accountable for revenue and customer experience. AI investments that stay in pilot mode are not delivering for you. We help you define what production-grade AI looks like in your specific commerce environment and build toward it in a sequenced, governed way.

    IT & Engineering Leaders

    You own the infrastructure AI requires. That means data pipelines, integration architecture, and the systems of record that AI needs to consume reliably. We build AI into your real environment, not a parallel sandbox that never connects to production.

    Digital Transformation Leaders

    You are driving the shift toward AI-enabled operating models across the organization. We provide the sequenced, governed approach that builds confidence at each stage and scales without disrupting the operations your business depends on today.
    Ready to Move AI From Pilot to Production?
    Take the AI Commerce Maturity Assessment and get a prioritized readiness snapshot in under 10 minutes — no sales call required
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