Google The Generative Store

The WPP-Google partnership in action: AKQA’s Generative Store, built with Google Gemini, transforming luxury e-commerce into personalised experiences.

Generative Store is an AI-powered e-commerce experience that builds custom-crafted interfaces in real time, turning browsing into personalised interactions. It replaces conventional e-commerce with a living platform that listens, curates and designs around each user's intent.



Idea Reshaping online shopping

By combining Google’s Gemini AI with our vision, we found a way to bring e-commerce from transaction to relationship, including the craft of boutique retail into the speed and scale of digital and restoring the emotional connection once only possible in physical stores.

A personal store, built for the moment.

A diagram with labeled boxes: Generative storefront, AKQA Generative Store intelligence, Google Gemini, Design System, and Client Data, each with colorful icons on a dark background.

From rigid to reactive

For decades, e-commerce has prioritised efficiency over emotion. Grids, filters and menus have trained customers to search, not to discover. Luxury experiences, which thrive on curated, human-led storytelling, were constrained by technology. That magic, once impossible to replicate online, is now unlocked by AI. Generative Store reintroduces context, narrative and emotional connection to digital commerce.


“Commerce lost its sense of intimacy. Generative Store restores it by giving digital interfaces a memory, a mood and a sense of occasion.”
- Nicolas Le Pallec, EU Executive Technology Director, AKQA

Intent-led design

Drawing from a brand’s design system, assets, heritage and even the ceremonial techniques of in-store advisors, the Generative Store crafts a true digital reflection of the boutique experience. Copy, imagery and storytelling adapt in real time to each visitor’s needs, personality and intent. Instead of a chat interface, users experience fully interactive, visually rich layouts that replicate the storytelling, cross-selling and personalisation of a luxury boutique at global scale.



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From rigid to reactive

Intent-led design