AI Innovation at Constructor Leads to 3 Gold 'Company of the Year' Wins Across 3 Stevie® Awards Programs

Retail and ecommerce wins recognize Constructor's product discovery leadership; judges cite 'outstanding commercial results, meaningful AI innovation and compelling customer impact'

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Constructor, the leading AI-powered search and product discovery platform for ecommerce companies, continues its winning streak in the Stevie^® Awards, with its ecommerce AI earning top honors across the organization's recent programs. Judges in the 2026 International Business Awards^® (IBAs), the latest Stevie Award competition, praised Constructor's "outstanding commercial results, meaningful AI innovation and compelling customer impact."

These latest wins complete a 2026 sweep for Constructor: The company has now earned Gold for "Company of the Year" in retail or ecommerce across every applicable Stevie Awards program this year. Constructor was named "Company of the Year: Ecommerce" in the newly announced IBAs results, as well as "Company of the Year: Retail and Ecommerce" in last month's Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Earlier this year, Constructor won "Company of the Year: Retail" in the 2026 American Business Awards^® (ABAs).

The Stevie Awards, founded in 2002, are widely recognized as the world's premier business awards. Each year, across the programs they operate, the Stevie Awards receive more than 12,000 nominations from organizations in over 70 nations and territories.

Racking up the wins

Constructor's recent honors recognize both the company and its ecommerce AI innovations, particularly AI Product Insights Agent (PIA), part of Constructor's growing suite of agentic commerce solutions. Embedded directly on product detail pages, PIA provides conversational answers to shoppers' "last-mile" questions — helping them decide what to buy while helping retailers measurably increase add-to-cart and purchase rates.

Constructor's Stevie Awards this year include:

International Business Awards

• Gold — Company of the Year: Ecommerce (large companies division)
• Gold — New Product of the Year: Electronic Commerce Solution (for Constructor's PIA)

Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence

• Gold — Company of the Year: Retail and Ecommerce
• Gold — New Product of the Year: Ecommerce and Retail (for PIA)

American Business Awards

• Gold — Company of the Year: Retail
• Silver — New Product of the Year: Electronic Commerce Solution (for PIA)
• People's Choice Award — Favorite New Product: Electronic Commerce Solution (for PIA)

Constructor joins companies including Accenture, Cisco, CVS Health, Google, IBM, Lenovo, Scribd, Walmart and Wells Fargo recognized for AI innovation in the Stevie Awards this year.

Take it from the judges

Here's a sample of what judges in the recent International Business Awards and Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence programs had to say:

About Constructor

• "Constructor presents one of the strongest examples of AI innovation translating directly into measurable business outcomes."
• "Constructor deserves recognition for its groundbreaking reasoning engine, which transforms ecommerce by delivering highly personalized shopping experiences that go far beyond basic keyword matching, driving massive engagement and measurable business results."
• Constructor "brings high‑impact, forward‑leaning innovations that equip organizations to accelerate adoption and maintain a competitive edge in the new landscape of agentic commerce."
• Its "AI capabilities are not simply experimental features, but production technologies delivering measurable value for major retailers."
• Constructor "balances monumental business growth with cutting-edge product innovation."

About AI Product Insights Agent (PIA)

• "This nails a real problem — people bounce from product pages because they can't get quick answers to simple questions like 'Will this fit?' or 'Is it dishwasher-safe?' The results are hard to argue with… This is conversational AI actually moving the needle."
• "The tool is brilliant for large-scale ecommerce, effectively solving real-time shopper friction."
• "Strong measurable business results — including higher conversion rates, increased revenue, and reduced support requests — demonstrate clear customer and retailer value."
• "Constructor created a great AI tool that helps shoppers make confident buying decisions."

Continued momentum

Constructor's wins in the Stevie Awards programs come on the heels of other recent honors and milestones. The company was just named to the Inc. 5000, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

In addition, within the last couple of months, Constructor was named "Best Use of AI in Retail and Ecommerce" in the inaugural Champions in AI Awards, a program judged by reporters and editors at top business publications, and earned a 2026 Agent Ready Award from the MACH Alliance for agentic solutions running live in production at scale.

This year, Constructor was named a Leader in the Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery — placing furthest in Vision and highest in Execution among all vendors evaluated.¹ And in the accompanying Gartner Critical Capabilities for Search and Product Discovery report, Constructor had the most #1 rankings, as the only vendor to be ranked first in three out of five Use Cases for two years straight.²

"We've always believed the best applications of AI aren't about AI for its own sake — they're about finding new and better ways to solve real problems," said Eli Finkelshteyn, Constructor co-founder and CEO. "For us, that means helping retailers succeed while making shopping meaningfully better for the people they serve. That's what we've built our platform around, and it's what we'll continue investing in. We're thrilled to see our work recognized so consistently across the Stevie Awards this year. Ultimately, though, the test of any technology is what happens when customers put it to work — and seeing retailers use ours every day to drive meaningful results is what matters most."

For more information on how retailers improve product discovery with Constructor's AI, please see https://constructor.com/customers.

¹ Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Search and Product Discovery, Mike Lowndes, Sandy Shen, Aditya Vasudevan, Noam Dorros, June 22, 2026.

² Gartner, Inc., Critical Capabilities for Search and Product Discovery, Aditya Vasudevan, Sandy Shen, Mike Lowndes, Noam Dorros, June 23, 2026.

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About Constructor
Constructor is the AI-driven search and product discovery platform that scales, learns, and adapts to how shoppers actually buy. Its central reasoning engine uses reinforcement learning to improve with every shopper interaction — delivering the right product to the right person in the right context at the right time. By learning directly from real shopper behavior across a company's own properties, Constructor continuously drives stronger performance across the metrics that matter most. Purpose-built for ecommerce, Constructor generates consistent $10M+ lifts for leading brands such as Sephora, Petco, The Very Group, home24, Grove Collaborative and Fisheries Supply. Learn more at constructor.com.

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