Your shop floor agent
Answer "do you carry it" before they walk out
AI answers what you stock, in which sizes and colors, the moment a shopper asks — no hold music, no guessing.
Shoppers decide where to go based on who answers first, and a store that cannot say what it carries loses the trip to whoever can. This workflow lets an AI agent answer from the range you have described — what you stock, in which sizes and colors, what you can order in, and how to get one held — so a shopper walks in knowing it is worth the journey.
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A customer asks their assistant
“which shops near me carry queen-size mattresses”
- Answers
- What you stock, in which sizes and colors
- Hands over
- A hold request your team confirms
- Not yet
- An exact count on the shelf right now
Can AI tell a shopper whether I have something in stock?
Yes, from the range you have described — not from a live feed. An AI agent can say what you carry, in which sizes and colors, and hand your team anything it cannot confirm rather than guessing at it.
- Answers
- What you stock, in which sizes and colors
- Hands over
- A hold request your team confirms
- Not yet
- An exact count on the shelf right now
Your customers are already asking AI
These are the kinds of prompts people now type into an AI assistant — the demand this workflow is built to serve.
“which shops near me carry queen-size mattresses”
“who near me sells wireless earbuds”
“find a shop that stocks this dress in a size 8”
“which store near me carries this product for pickup”
So how does a customer's AI find this at all?
This workflow only matters if shoppers can check with you before they check somewhere else. Make your range and this availability lookup available to AI, so when someone asks their assistant which shop nearby carries an item like yours, AI can point them to you and answer what you stock.
What you carry is not the same as what is on a shelf, and the difference is yours to explain: the sizes and colors you actually keep, what you can order in and how long it takes, and the things people ask for that you have never stocked.
Fugentic publishes what you describe as an MCP server — the thing that lets an AI assistant ask your business a question and get a real answer back — and registers it, so an agent finder, the index an assistant checks to see what is available, can pick it up.
- The customer asks
“who near me sells wireless earbuds”
- AI looks for what can answer
An agent finder checks what is available
- Your agent answers
Your shop floor agent
A hold request your team confirmsreaches you
A shopper asking their assistant for a queen-size mattress nearby gets your actual range in the answer — sizes, colors, what you can order in — and a hold request reaches your team before they have opened a competitor's website.
What AI can and cannot do here today
What AI can do today
- It can say which products and variants you carry, from the range you have described.
- It can ask what the shopper actually needs and point them to the right item — including the nearest alternative when you do not stock the exact one.
- It can hand your team a hold request carrying the product, the variant and the shopper’s details.
What it cannot do yet
- It cannot see the shelf. There is no live stock count, so anything it cannot confirm goes to your team instead of a guess.
- It cannot reserve or sell the item. Your team confirms every hold — no bookings, no orders, no payments.
How the AI inventory check workflow works
- 1
Shopper asks about stock
A customer messages or calls asking whether you carry a specific product, size, or color.
- 2
AI answers from your range
The agent looks the item up against the catalog and stock rules you have described.
- 3
An answer, or the nearest thing
The agent says what you carry and in which variants — and where you do not stock it, points to the closest thing you do.
- 4
Shopper knows what to do next
The customer gets a clear answer and the next step: ask your team to hold one, or come in for pickup.
Will AI one day quote, book and sell for you?
Not yet — and not for a while. Everything below needs server types we hope to build, and an AI ecosystem that is still forming. It is where this is going, not what you sign up for today.
- 1
Quoting against live data
Not available todayOne day your shop floor agent could answer from the shelf rather than the description — what is actually in, in that size, right now, without anyone keeping a second list up to date.
- 2
Taking the booking
Not available todayIt could put the item aside under the shopper's name, so a hold is a hold rather than a request your team still has to action.
- 3
Selling and closing
Not available todayFurther out, the shopper could pay for it there and collect it on the way home, and the whole thing would have happened in one conversation.
Where this agent fits
Few businesses need only one agent. Different moments of the same customer journey want different help — and every one of them is made available to AI the same way.
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Build this workflow
Open this exact workflow in the free Agentic Planner and adapt it to your business — no code required.
Frequently asked questions
The agent offers the closest thing you do carry — a different size, color, or another of your locations — instead of a dead end.
From the range and stock rules you describe in the planner. Anything the agent cannot confirm — an exact count on the shelf this minute — goes to your team instead of a guess.
The agent collects the request and passes it to your team, who confirm the hold.
Because you have described your range, and a description is something an assistant can put a question to. What it meets is your own account of what you sell rather than the open web's guess at it — and for a shop, those two are rarely the same thing.
Make your services available to AI
Describe what you sell, what it costs and how you decide — then publish it as an agent an assistant can ask. No code.