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Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential.

Everyone at Shopify works on product. Our merchant obsession is built into every layer of our technology, marrying highly resilient infrastructure with cutting-edge methods.

Since 2006, we've grown to over ~8,000 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Launched in 2026 in partnership with Google, UCP is an open standard that lets AI agents connect and transact with any merchant. It defines a common language across platforms, agents, and businesses — spanning capabilities like catalog, cart, checkout, and identity linking, with support for REST, MCP, and Agent2Agent transports.

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Read more at shopify.com/ucp

SimGym: A/B Testing with AI Shoppers

Traditional A/B testing requires weeks of real traffic to reach statistical significance — a major obstacle for merchants without massive visitor volume. SimGym solves this by deploying hundreds of AI-controlled synthetic shoppers to test store variants in parallel, returning results in minutes.

Each robot shopper receives a persona, budget, and shopping intent, then navigates the real storefront interface — no simulated DOM. The system runs up to 400,000 shopping sessions a day, powered by Shopify's inference cluster and open-source language models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

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Open Source

Shopify benefits greatly from open-source software, so we make a point to give back. Here are some highlights from our public repositories:

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