The AI Strategy That Makes Business More Human w/ Bijan Vaez, CEO @ Merchkit

Most retail AI tools promise to help you sell more. Bijan Vaez started by asking a simpler question: what if the problem is the data itself?

That question pulled him from early AI experiments in product photography into the unglamorous but critical work of AI-powered product catalog management. As CEO of Merch Kit (and a three-time founder and former CTO who has scaled SaaS products to millions of users), he helps large brands, marketplaces, and enterprise retailers clean, enrich, and structure their product information. The goal: make it usable across multiple channels without weeks of manual effort.

This conversation is a real-world case study in applied AI for retail operations. Bijan explains why messy data is one of the biggest barriers to AI delivering value, and how solving those upstream issues makes every downstream tool, and ...