# Beyond classification: How AI agents are evolving Shopify's product taxonomy at scale

DevFeed: [Beyond classification: How AI agents are evolving Shopify's product taxonomy at scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/beyond-classification-how-ai-agents-are-evolving-shopify-s-product-taxonomy-at-scale-1521.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/product-taxonomy-at-scale>)

Author: Kshetrajna Raghavan

Published: 2025-10-09T05:18:20Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [classification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/classification.md>), [predictions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/predictions.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes an AI multi-agent system that evolves its product taxonomy alongside changing commerce. The system is intended to improve more than product classification by updating taxonomy labels across more than 10,000 categories and 2,000 attributes, addressing scale, domain expertise, and consistency challenges.

## Source excerpt

Last year, over 875 million people bought items from Shopify merchants. Building on our prior Vision Language Model-based product classification, this post explores how AI agents are evolving the taxonomy itself.