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MCP server for structured product search + merchant catalogs for AI agents (looking for feedback)

OpenAI Developer Community May 20, 2026
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Hello,

I’m sharing a tool we’ve been building and would really appreciate feedback from others working on agent infrastructure or commerce-related workflows.

We built an MCP server that provides structured product search for AI agents, with the added ability for merchants to publish and expose product catalogs for agent-based discovery.

What it does:

  • Structured product search across multiple merchants

  • Returns normalized data (price, availability, merchant info)

  • Supports merchant catalog ingestion so sellers can expose products directly to AI agents

  • Designed for MCP-based agent workflows

  • Free tier available (100 calls/day for early access)

Why we built it: We found that general web search isn’t reliable enough for commerce use cases in agents, especially when structured comparison and real-time product data are needed. At the same time, merchants currently don’t have a clean way to expose catalogs directly to AI-driven discovery systems.

What we’re exploring:

  • Whether MCP is the right abstraction layer for commerce/product data

  • How merchants should best structure catalogs for agent consumption

  • Where agent-based product discovery breaks today

  • What “good” UX looks like when agents interact with real merchant inventory

Would love feedback from anyone building:

  • Shopping / commerce agents

  • Retrieval or tool-use infrastructure

  • Merchant-facing AI integrations

Happy to answer any questions or share a demo if helpful. Thank you!

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