I Connected Claude to My Store (AI eCommerce 2027 With AutoDS)

So in the world of e-commerce and dropshipping most people just use AI to generate ideas and in this video I want to show you how Claude can actually run your store for you and the workflow we're going to look at specifically is I'm going to talk to Claude it's going to find three products it's going to compare them and pick the best one and then we'll actually publish that one to my online store that's gonna be the video it's gonna be a fun one let's go the system we're going to use this is the sponsor of today's video and a I'm a long-time partner of the channel called AutoDS. You've probably seen one of my videos on them before. They are a all-in-one dropshipping platform. But the reason I'm making this is they recently launched a direct connector to Claude. That means Claude can now search the AutoDS catalog. It can compare products, audit your store, and then actually publish to your store. And that's the jump that's needed to ensure that AI can actually do useful work on your behalf for this kind of business. And that's why we're making this video. So if you want to support the channel and follow along while we're doing this workflow in this video. You can go to the link in the description or comment AutoDS to get a three-day trial for $1. Regardless, if you just want to learn, no worries there. And now let's jump into my computer. So before you jump into everything we're about to do with connecting this whole system to Claude, just to catch you up, what we did in the last video is number one, we built our store with Build Your Store, so with AI. So that built a full Shopify store and added 10 products to it. Then we used AutoDS to pick one hero product with AI. And then we used a platform called CreateUPC to create AI ads for that product. So that gets us to this point. What you can see here is our ice cream maker product for people at home. It costs about $400 or $300 if you buy two. And this is what that product page looks like on our Shopify site for the product. So now let's just jump straight into connecting all of this to AI. So I'm going to open up Claude here. I'm going to go to Settings, then Connectors, and then I'm going to search for AutoDS. Now right here, I'm going to press on this and then click Connect to Claude. And then I've signed in, and it's that easy and connected. Now this works because AutoDS is kind of like the brain behind the Shopify store. It's the fulfillment partner. It's how we chose our products. So the whole Shopify store is basically a front. It's like the UI UX layer or the AutoDS backend. So that is the step you have to complete here. Again, you can see the prior video if you want more of a deep dive into that. And then here's everything that we can do with this connection. First, we can search through the product database. So all of the data, the marketplace data, you can see here, the handpicked products, the trending, the TikTok shop data, that's all going to be searchable. And then also we can manage our whole catalog. So all of the products we've added to our Shopify store can be now connected to, edited by, updated by, et cetera. And so here we go. We can see you can research the products and the suppliers and manage our products. So now let's start throwing some real work at it to flesh out what it can do. And to do that, here's a product that I think would be cool to add to our store. It's a fine art picture light. I like it similar to the ice cream maker in that it is pretty expensive, very high quality, so good margin on that, and that gives us room to run with our budget for ads. Also, the reviews are very strong on here at 4.8 stars. So here's what I'm going to ask Claude to do. I want to test this product on my store. Here's the URL. I pasted the Amazon URL, then import it to my draft list, and then give me a bunch of information on it. So if you have any idea for a product, whether it's Walmart, it's on TikTok, it's on Amazon, you can just grab the link and you can talk to Claude. And if this works, we'll see. Then Claude can go ahead and add that to our store Shopify for us. So let's see if that works. So you can see it's requesting to use list stores from AutoDS and now upload product. Click always allow. Okay, we can see the image of the product here. So all of this was pulled from AutoDS and Amazon. Okay, there we go. And it has been successfully added to our draft. Here's all the data on it. So it's saying we can just resell it straight from Amazon for 440 bucks. What we'd really wanna do here is pull from Alibaba or direct from the manufacturer. And keep in mind, you can add and just pull directly from Alibaba links as well for this workflow. To test whether this works, let's jump back into our store. We're going to reload here under Draft. OK, and there we go. We can now see this product in our AutoDS Draft. OK, this is actually looking really good so far. We can see the whole the entire page is being filled out here, including reviews from Amazon. That sounds good. Now, all we have to do to approve this is click save and import. And now we can see it over here in our Shopify account with all of the images product information attached. And now if someone orders this, the fulfillment is automatic through AutoDS. So that I think exemplifies what you can do once you tie in your chat box to your e-commerce system. And now the world's your oyster, right? I think AutoDS has given you a very general set of tools and there's a lot of innovation that will continue to happen and how you can best utilize and build infrastructure around Claude and OpenAI. ChatGPT, et cetera, interacting with your store. So one other example of that is something higher level or more general, let's go ahead and say, audit my store and my product draft, give me a report on what's working, what's missing and what I should fix before I run ads. Okay, so what we can see here are all the products with information that Claude has pulled together, so our margin, and then here's the report from Claude, so we can see the overall verdict on lighting as the big winner here. Our product store card with, based on those products we just looked at, what's the best, so what ad channel for it, more notes, a lot of potential here. So overall, this is Claude serving a more of that managerial role versus the direct kind of doing work on your behalf. I think both of those are very valid use cases. And now previously, that final step of ours was to create videos or ads with AI for product to go and sell them. Let's go ahead and download these. Now, I think there's three ways that AI can help manage this part of the process for you and specifically Claude. Number one, we can, number one, since it knows what all of our products are, we can say things Things like research in figure out some great ad concept for those products and then we can Go ahead and paste those concepts into Create UGC to create those ads for us. What we can also do is upload those videos directly and say, suggest ways to improve these ads, and then we can go take the feedback and plug that again into Create UGC. Or finally, we can just ask Claude to create videos on our behalf. I could say, create a UGC video about the find our land we looked at. Let's go ahead and click enter. And now we can see it is generating those UGC ads just natively inside of Claude, which is epic. If you don't know how to do this, we made a separate video covering this entire process of generating these videos inside of Claude. And so there you go. That covers the full process from the store creation, the product side of this, the managerial work, completing product work on your behalf, research, UGC, doing all of that directly inside of Claude, This connection with AutoDS. Okay, now my overall take and temperature on this is more integrations with AI is better. That's the future. That is AI being able to complete better work on your behalf. And as the models become more intelligent, right, as long as you have that connection or that infrastructure, then the better by default, your business, your products, your workflow, your productivity is going to become. Now, I don't think that AI fully replaces your judgment, right? Right, so I think that component and maintaining I mean, your judgment, your taste, your ideas in this workflow that you set up is still where you want to be. You don't want to just regulate everything to AI with a system like this. So you want kind of your Goldilocks, right, you want to use AI to make yourself more productive, to speed up your ideas and your deployment of your ideas. But keep something, keep the human wedge in there, right? Your unique taste, understanding of the market, et cetera. So overall, that's the video. I hope you found this one useful. Again, if you do want to support the channel and you have not tried out Autodesk yet, you can go and claim a three day trial in the description for $1 or just comment Autodesk under this video to receive that link. It's a pretty cool workflow. Appreciate you being here and I'll see you. In the next one.