product recommendations, payments and deeper engagement with brands. By doing this, shopping becomes much more accessible and convenient for the shopper. “An open and transparent shopping universe is good for customers” Marc Lore - Walmart CEO Shopper behaviour is ever changing, to fully understand it, one must be able to get the complete overview of their shopping actions to better understand them and make suitable recommendations to meet their needs. The best way to get this overview is to understand their shopping habits online, offline, with small brands and large brands, locally and if possible globally. It has so far been impossible to combine products from small and big brands available online and in-store into one marketplace. By combining small and big brands, all retail can potentially be catalogued so that everything a shopper needs to buy online and in-store can be found and purchased in one place. This biggest problem with combining small and large retailers’ online and in-store product information is consumer expectation from both are very distinct, to be able to combine both would mean, all these expectations must be exceeded. “AtHashtags has figured a way to combine all retail into one marketplace using advanced AI.” Consumers seamlessly discover and make payment for products from smallest to largest brands online and in-person using artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), connected online and in-person marketplaces (connected malls, pop up shops, retail stores) supported by an innovative proprietary payment system (Point of sale – POS). “The vision is to bridge the massive gap between online and offline shopping between consumer, small and large brands regarding discovery, purchase especially payments for small brands, spaces and fulfilment to create an open world of seamless shopping.”

Using a unique AI algorithm called ASH to solve the problem 80% of shoppers have which is wasting a lot of time searching by combining items from small and big brands (the way they shop in the real world), helping them find these items online, leading them to physical stores near them to buy, click and collect. For small brands, it solves the problem of consumer confidence and trust with enhanced seamless discovery and deeper engagement online and in-store. It does this by allowing them to appear in multiple connected physical stores and marketplaces to bring them in closer proximity to shoppers and help them scale faster. The proprietary payment system supports seamless payments for ATHASHTAGS consumers online and in-stores. This makes it possible for brands to only need one inventory and point of sale system for their global sales. Big brands benefit from adding more online and footfall sales, smaller brands products get cross promoted and is proven to increase sales. ATHASHTAGS app is a smart AI powered augmented reality (AR)shopping browser with image, product and facial recognition scanners combined with 3D visualisations. The proprietary AI algorithm called ASH (Augmented Search Hashtags) personalises users’ shop pages to items they will most likely buy and content most suited to them. This AI measures proximity, previous purchases, views what their followers and following have bought, increasing consumer confidence, spend, minimising returns and need to refund. A strong leader in the AI and Payments space. We envision a world where a shopper has no boundaries locally and globally on what they can acquire and the immediacy of receiving their orders. AtHashtags was named Top 50 AI Companies 2017 and shortlisted for Top 10 AI companies 2017.

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