Delectable AI — Platform Architecture

The Grocery Intelligence Platform for Agentic Commerce
Food data is a commodity. The moat is activation: fusing many dimensions of food with real behavior, then handing an agent the few that matter for this shopper, this moment — grounded, governed, and driving value for shopper, retailer, and brand at once. Grounded → Governed → Activated.
Grounded · every fact sourced Governed · rules in the decision path Activated · agent-native, at the moment
The deciding question
What is the best complete action for this shopper or household, at this retailer, for this mission, at this moment?
Control plane · spans every layer
🛡️ Governance & Control Plane
The Policy Decision Point every module calls into instead of re-implementing authorization — model entitlement, budgets, content gate (allow/deny/redact, deny-wins), and an append-only decision & usage ledger. Governance is the authority; it makes serving shopper, retailer, and brand safe at the same time.
Hard RulesRegulatory (NIST AI RMF)Audit Trail & ProvenanceModel ProvenancePrivacy & ConsentRestricted & Age-gatedHuman-in-the-LoopEntitlements & Licensing
Interoperability · transact wherever the shopper is
🛰️ Commerce Anywhere
The full commerce domain — cart · lists · pricing · inventory · orders · fulfillment · payment · payouts · merchant feeds — exposed over open agent protocols (A2A · MCP · A2UI · UCP) so any external agent (Google, ChatGPT, comparison-shoppers, retail-media agents) can transact against the retailer, deployed as a per-grocer UCP gateway in the grocer's own cloud. Raw shopper PII is never exposed over the wire — the retailer keeps the customer.
A2AMCPA2UIUCPper-grocer gatewayPII-safe
Consumer strategy · future-proofing privacy
🔐 Consumer Data Ownership — Web3 / DID
W3C Decentralized Identity (DID) + Verifiable Credentials: the shopper owns their profile, decides what to share, sees how it's used, and proves attributes (age, loyalty tier, household, dietary) without exposing PII. Non-custodial and portable — carry it across health, fitness, kitchen, lifestyle & medical apps (e.g. Apple HealthKit). The DID + VC foundation is built (CouponLink-aligned); full cross-app portability is the roadmap. This future-proofs the shift to consumer-owned data — a leapfrog as adoption accelerates.
W3C DIDVerifiable Credentialsnon-custodialprove-without-PIIcross-app portableHealthKit ↗
Roadmap & Vision
Live today
Real-time personalization · Model-of-Models recommenders · Perfect-Cart optimization (ILP) · Graph-grounded, explainable answers (anti-hallucination) · Grounded flavor-pairing engine · Governed model registry + entitlement · Learning-from-behavior loop · Agentic evaluation & guardrails · Custom-SLM fine-tuning pipeline · Commerce Anywhere (A2A / UCP gateway) · Web3 DID + Verifiable Credentials (foundation).
In build
Category / department expert agents powered by custom SLMs (produce · meat & seafood · bakery · wine & spirits · pharmacy · baby · pet · deli) · On-device / edge SLMs for carts, kiosks & mobile (private, instant) · Session & real-time propensity · Next-best-action · Photo / shelf / label vision · Causal pricing & promotion · Deep freshness & expiration forecasting · Aroma-compound data for molecular flavor discovery (CoSyLab / FlavorDB) · Consumer data-wallet — share across health, fitness & kitchen apps.
Where we're headed
Compact expert models distilled from frontier AI · True retail-media incrementality & RL bidding · Multi-objective optimization (click + buy + keep + margin) · Instant cold-start for new SKUs / tenants · Predictive household pantry · Health-outcome & clinical-diet personalization · Privacy-preserving cross-tenant learning · Sustainability-aware baskets · Autonomous replenishment · Consumer-owned data, portable across medical & wellness (e.g. HealthKit) — privacy by design as consumers come to own their data.
↗ = planned / not yet in production.
Delectable ownsGrocery intelligence · agents · orchestration · decisioning · learning
Provides optionalityShopper-facing applications & embedded experiences
IntegratesCommerce · loyalty · pricing · inventory · OMS · fulfillment · payments