AI is no longer a fringe tool — it’s a core enabler of growth, experimentation, and operational speed in ecommerce.
But as businesses rush to integrate generative AI, they’re discovering that not all AI is created equal. In 2025, it’s not just about using AI. It’s about prompting well, and doing so with the right kind of AI: agentic, ecommerce-native and outcome-driven.
Welcome to the era of prompt-powered productivity.
The importance of prompting as a skillset
Prompting is the foundation for working with AI. It’s the act of turning your intentions, strategy, or problem into a set of instructions the AI can act on.
A vague prompt yields vague output. But a clear, well-structured prompt can generate content, insights, marketing and merchandising calendars, competitive benchmarks and action items with remarkable precision.
Think of prompting as a new form of digital literacy — like writing a search query in 2005 or formatting a spreadsheet formula in 1999. The better you get at it, the more powerful the tools become. And employees that don’t master prompt engineering will quickly fall behind their peers. Prompting is no longer an optional skill but a core competency for everyone.
Prompting’s not just important for LLMs like ChatGPT, but also AI agents, another form of AI that’s rapidly transforming the workplace.
What makes agentic AI different from LLMs like ChatGPT
First, let’s define what agentic AI means:
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can take autonomous actions toward goals, not just respond passively to prompts. Unlike traditional AI tools that wait for user input, agentic AI plans, executes, and adapts its behavior in real time, often acting like a proactive assistant that can think ahead, make decisions, and handle tasks with minimal human guidance.
While traditional LLMs like ChatGPT respond to individual prompts one at a time, Agentic AI takes things further — it can plan, decide and act across multiple steps to complete a goal. Think of ChatGPT as a smart conversationalist, while agentic AI behaves more like a self-directed teammate that can manage workflows, make decisions, and adapt dynamically to changing inputs.
Now despite these special abilities, both LLMs and agentic AI rely on great prompts to get great outputs.
The challenge for AI newbies
We all know prompting is emerging as the new skillset to have in the workplace. It’s as revolutionary as computers and the Internet have been in decades past.
But the challenge is, prompting is still new and it can be intimidating for newbies and busy professionals who simply don’t have time to self-teach all the ins and outs of prompting magic.
The good news is LLMs and AI agents are getting better at supporting users. You can always ask your AI assistant for a little assistance with your prompts.
But sometimes you just want to hit the ground running. That’s why we’ve built our own Prompt Gallery right within ShopVision, so you can start with prompt templates tailored for your role, task or project.
Prompting with the ShopVision Super Agent
Once you’ve signed up for ShopVision and tracked your competitive brands, you’ll be able to get started with Super Agent immediately and take advantage of its features:
Ecommerce-tuned knowledge
Our AI is trained on over 100,000 ecommerce brands, campaigns, and catalogs. It understands seasonal sales cycles, common promo tactics, and product discovery nuances for your industry with the freshest data.
Built-in memory of your brand and competitors
Your AI assistant knows your vertical, price points, customer segments, and past performance. No need to re-prompt every time. Share your frequently used prompts with your team, and connect your first-party data sources for even more relevant answers.
Autonomous task execution
Super Agent goes beyond generation. It can synthesize findings, create structured plans, tag content, execute automated tasks, send notifications to you and your team, join your meetings and integrate fully with email, Slack and Teams.
Extensive Prompt Gallery
Did we mention the Prompt Gallery? You can ask our Super Agent anything…but if you need a little help, inspiration is always at your fingertips.
Who should use Super Agent, and what for?
Digital marketers and agencies: Planning campaigns, writing subject lines, crafting promos, or comparing tactics across competitors.
Ecommerce merchandisers: Getting real-time product performance insights, generating collections or homepage updates, or reviewing pricing changes.
Product managers and UX leads: Summarizing feedback, generating A/B test ideas, or identifying friction in the customer journey.
Prompting = Power
Prompting well doesn’t just improve outputs — it unlocks deep and strategic insights. Want to test more campaigns, optimize faster, and analyze trends in minutes? It starts with asking better questions.
What can ShopVision show you about your peer brands and industry trends?
Request a personalized demo to take Super Agent for a test drive.
Written by Peter Sheldon
Peter is the co-founder and CPO of ShopVision. He is passionate about helping brands leverage AI to unlock new levels of growth and efficiency and realize a vision of autonomous digital marketing and eCommerce operations.
