Instacart launches AI assistant Clementine, agentic commerce integrations

Instacart has launched an artificial intelligence assistant, Clementine, for grocery shopping support while adding new partners for its existing enterprise AI tool Cart Assistant. As of Sept. 9, Instacart users in North America can tap Clementine for “the hardest parts of grocery shopping,” according to the company.

It referred to decisions such as what to make for a meal, “shopping the way a family actually eats” and staying within budget. Instacart said the AI assistant helps users develop a personalized cart in seconds.

It added that it based the Clementine experience on “what’s actually available on shelves in real time from the customer’s chosen store, so people can spend less time figuring out what’s for dinner and more time actually enjoying it.”

Chris Rogers, CEO at Instacart, said in a statement that millions of families ask themselves what’s for dinner on a given night. They don’t know the answer or what to shop for, he added. “We’ve spent nearly 15 years learning how families shop and eat, and Clementine puts that knowledge to work,” Rogers said.

“It learns from the preferences you share and the way you’ve shopped on Instacart. It can help you stay on budget and surface what’s actually in stock at your chosen store, handling enough of the weekly planning that the mental load actually feels lighter.”

Instacart said early results show that its customers start with tasks such as restocking before using the AI tool for “higher-order use cases,” such as recipe discovery. On average, Instacart said, customers placing orders through the Clementine AI assistant include more items than other users.

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