> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.depict.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Depict for headless merchants: AI product discovery — collection merchandising, search and recommendations — served through an API and steered from one portal.

Depict is **AI product discovery for e-commerce brands**: curate the moments
that matter, automate the rest. For headless and composable storefronts, the
full engine is available through the Storefront API — you own the frontend,
Depict ranks and serves what your customers see.

Three products, one engine, one portal:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Collection merchandising" icon="rectangle-list" href="/headless/features/collections">
    Merchandise hundreds of collections with precise control over brand and
    storytelling, while the AI engine keeps every page optimally sorted —
    no more re-sorting by hand every Monday.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/headless/features/search">
    Hybrid search that combines AI, keyword matching and your merchandising
    rules to deliver relevant results every time — plus insights into what
    customers actually search for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Recommendations" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/headless/features/recommendations">
    Product recommendations that understand your brand rules and
    automatically match the best products across thousands of SKUs.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

All three are steered and measured from the **Depict portal**:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Analytics" icon="chart-line" href="/headless/features/analytics">
    A merchant-wide analytics hub plus per-collection analytics: KPIs,
    conversion funnel, search insights, inventory risk and pinned-vs-auto
    health.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Products" icon="shirt" href="/headless/features/products">
    Your catalog with performance metrics, stock-based visibility and
    auto-hide for out-of-stock products.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Boost & Bury" icon="arrow-up-wide-short" href="/headless/features/boost-and-bury">
    Storewide ranking rules — push bestsellers up, bury out-of-stock or
    on-sale products — set once, applied everywhere.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Collection analytics" icon="chart-column" href="/headless/features/collection-analytics">
    Per-collection performance with benchmarking, dead stock detection and
    per-product pin recommendations.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How it fits together

1. **Your catalog and behavioural data are ingested** into Depict — see the
   [data ingestion guide](/data-ingestion-guide/overview-of-data-ingestion).
2. **Depict ranks and serves** search results, product listings and
   recommendations to your storefront through the
   [Storefront API](/api-guide/introduction), with
   [tracking events](/api-guide/tracking/introduction) closing the loop.
3. **You steer and measure** everything from the portal: curation,
   merchandising rules and analytics.

## Where to go next

* New to Depict? Start with [Getting started](/headless/getting-started).
* Integrating your storefront? Follow the
  [API integration guide](/api-guide/introduction).
* Building against the APIs? See the **API Reference** tab for the Portal API
  and the Storefront API.