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Generative AI in Commerce Cloud Page Designer, done properly

Generative AI in Commerce Cloud Page Designer turns hours of copywriting and metadata work into minutes of review. We built an integration that does exactly that. The time saved is real, and so is the risk: a model that writes fluently will also write things about your products that are not true.

Content manager reviewing generated product copy in Page Designer

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Generative AI speeds up content and SEO metadata; humans still approve it.

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Structured product data and clear prompts decide the quality of the output.

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Prompts, tone rules and review steps keep their value if you switch models.

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The decision on the table is how to bring generative AI into your content operation, and under whose control. You can connect a large language model yourself, use what Salesforce offers natively, or combine the two. Each route shifts who owns accuracy, brand voice and cost.

What generative AI does inside Page Designer

Page Designer is the visual editor in Salesforce B2C Commerce where merchandisers build content pages and components without a developer. Adding generative AI to it means a content manager can ask for a first draft of a banner text, a category introduction or a product story from inside the component they are editing. The draft appears in the field, ready to edit. Page Designer serves SFRA storefronts and, through its content APIs, headless ones too, the route explained in headless commerce with the Composable Storefront.

FORWARD built such an integration on Commerce Cloud (Agentforce Commerce), connecting OpenAI models to Page Designer through custom editors that plug into existing components. The same module works in Business Manager, the back office, where it writes missing SEO titles and descriptions for products and categories. It runs on single items or in batches, so a prompt that works once can be applied to a full category.

SEO metadata is where the time saving is largest

Missing page titles and meta descriptions are a common gap on large catalogues, because nobody has time to write thousands of them by hand. Generative AI closes that gap quickly. With product attributes as input, a model can draft a title and description per product that is specific enough to be useful and short enough to fit the search result.

The quality depends on what goes in. A product with complete attributes gets a precise description. A product with a name and a price gets a vague one. The same discipline that makes a good product page applies here, and it is set out in product detail page best practices.

Trust, but verify every output

Language models generate text that sounds right, and sometimes it is wrong. A description can claim a material the product does not contain or a feature it does not have. On a product page, that turns into returns, complaints and in some categories a legal problem.

The answer is a review step that nobody skips. Generated content lands as a draft, a named person checks facts against the product data, and only then does it go live. Clear prompts that tell the model to use only the supplied attributes cut the error rate. They do not remove the need for a human to read what is published.

Thomas Theunen
Head of Commerce

Language models generate text that sounds right, and sometimes it is wrong.

Thomas Theunen

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Head of Commerce

Build your own integration or use what Salesforce ships

Salesforce's own generative AI, first announced as Einstein GPT (Agentforce), now reaches commerce through Agentforce capabilities. Which of those features are available to you depends on your edition, contract and storefront, so check them against your own setup. Native features are maintained by Salesforce and follow its trust and data rules. A custom integration gives you more control over the model, the prompts and where the component sits in Page Designer.

The two can coexist. A sensible route is to use native features where they cover the job. Add a custom editor where your content process needs something specific, such as brand tone per market or batch generation in a format your team already uses. Early input on new Salesforce releases helps us judge when a native feature is ready to replace custom work.

What drives the cost, and what keeps its value

The running cost of a custom setup grows with the number of items you generate for, multiplied by the number of languages and by how often content is regenerated. Model usage is billed per volume of text, so a catalogue in five languages refreshed every season costs far more than one pass in one language. Review time is the internal cost, and it grows with the same drivers.

Some of the work survives any change of model or vendor. Well-written prompts, tone of voice rules per brand, and a review workflow with named owners carry over. A clean attribute model in your catalogue carries over too. That is also what makes content easier for AI answer engines to cite, the theme of how GEO relates to SEO.

Start with one use case and a measure

Pick one use case with a clear measure, such as missing SEO metadata on a single category, and track time saved and error rate. Then extend it to content pages once the review routine holds.

Ownership decides whether it lasts. Someone in ecommerce or content has to own the prompts, the tone rules and the review queue, the same way someone owns the product catalogue. Without that owner, reviews get skipped under deadline pressure and the error rate climbs back up.

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