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"The product brain" : in conversation with Piotr Zaleski, Ingrid

"The product brain" : in conversation with Piotr Zaleski, Ingrid

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In this episode we talk about how AI changes both customer experience and enterprise value. Ian Jindal speaks with Piotr Zaleski, Founder & CPTO of Ingrid, about delivery as one of the last hard problems in digital retail: fragmented carriers, messy operational data, customer promises, conversion, margin and loyalty all bound together. What makes the conversation distinctive is that Piotr is not only building an AI-enabled delivery intelligence business; he is also reshaping Ingrid internally around AI, centralised knowledge and a future “product brain”. Ingrid is listed as a delivery-first retail platform, and Piotr is also speaking at CommerceAI Summit 2026 in the “Strategic AI: The AI-Transformed Enterprise” session. Key themesDelivery as a commercial proxy: Piotr argues that delivery is not a back-office function but a proxy for conversion, customer NPS, repeat purchase and profitability. Ingrid integrates across multiple delivery carriers and builds logic and customer interfaces to make delivery more precise, accurate and consumer-friendly. The “last big problem” in digital retail: The conversation revisits the messy reality behind ecommerce delivery: stock certainty, carrier choice, delivery cut-offs, in-flight changes and systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Piotr frames delivery as fragmented, complex and still not solved in a simple way. From checkout feature to whole-journey economics: Piotr challenges retailers to look beyond adding a carrier or running a checkout A/B test. Delivery choices affect AOV, cost to serve, customer acquisition cost, loyalty and the quality of the customer promise before conversion.AI inside the enterprise, not just inside the product: Piotr describes AI as a “renaissance” for how Ingrid thinks about product. Rather than treating product as a bounded software surface, he sees every customer and end-customer interaction becoming part of product over time. The rise of the product brain: Ingrid is centralising knowledge and automation so that domain expertise can be used across support, sales, discovery, onboarding and eventually customer-facing product experiences. Piotr describes this as a future product increment: a “product brain” built from Ingrid’s domain knowledge, transactional data and operational logic.Agentic shopping and the return of negotiation: Piotr suggests retail may move away from mass standardisation towards more contextual, flexible deals. Agents could evaluate convenience, returns, delivery capability, operational quality and price together — moving commerce closer to a personalised negotiation than a static buy button.TopicsWhy delivery should be evaluated as a driver of conversion, loyalty and margin, not just as a fulfilment cost.How conflicting internal KPIs can distort delivery decisions unless retailers look at cost to serve across the whole customer journey.Why AI adoption inside a SaaS business may start with knowledge management, workflow and team capability before it becomes a visible customer-facing feature.How centralised knowledge and automation can help teams become more “T-shaped” without losing operational discipline.Why agentic shopping may shift competitive advantage from product discovery towards operational superiority and fulfilment capability.How to think about AI and enterprise value in the CapitalAI / StrategicAI sense: not just as productivity, but as product architecture, organisational design and future moat.Highlights00:01 – CommerceAI framing: Ian introduces the CommerceAI lens: AI across customer, experience, operations and capital value chains.01:27 – What Ingrid does: Piotr introduces Ingrid as a delivery intelligence platform integrating across carriers and customer interfaces.03:53 – Why delivery was the problem to solve: Piotr explains how fragmented delivery information created cognitive load for consumers and an underserved operational challenge for retailers.07:42 – Bridging carriers and retailers: Ingrid has to build trust and integration with carriers while persuading retailers to rethink hard-won internal delivery logic.12:58 – The KPI tension: Piotr unpacks the conflict between top-line teams seeking lower delivery fees and operations teams managing cost to serve.17:58 – AI as a renaissance: Piotr explains how AI has changed his philosophy of product, turning internal knowledge, customer support and sales enablement into part of the product surface.24:17 – The Ingrid way of AI: Piotr describes centralising information, automation and cross-functional AI enablement rather than allowing every team to build in isolation.29:42 – From standardised retail to contextual retail: The conversation turns to agentic shopping, personalisation from both ends of the transaction and the possibility of a more negotiated form of commerce.35:57 – Direction of travel: Piotr argues that discovery may become more horizontal through agents and LLMs, while ...
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