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Insights on AI, ecommerce support, and operational efficiency.

Written by the WM Tech product and engineering team — practical guides, case studies, and research on automating ecommerce support at scale.

Read Article → Maya Rauf · June 2, 2026 · 8 min read
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Returns & Refunds
How to Write a Return Policy That an AI Can Actually Enforce

Vague policies like "items must be in original condition" are impossible for AI — or humans — to apply consistently. Here's how to structure rules your automation can act on without ambiguity.

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Will Morrison
May 28, 2026 · 6 min
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Chat Automation
The Live Chat & SMS Support Playbook for D2C Brands in 2026

Live chat and SMS have overtaken email as the primary support channels for US D2C brands. Here's a complete playbook for automating them without losing the personal feel your customers expect.

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Zara Ahmed
May 19, 2026 · 9 min
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AI & NLP
Zero-Shot vs Fine-Tuned: Why We Chose to Train Our Own Intent Classifier

Off-the-shelf NLP models misclassify ecommerce support intent roughly 18% of the time on our benchmarks. Here's why we built a domain-specific fine-tuned classifier and what it took to get to 98.9% accuracy.

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Maya Rauf
May 12, 2026 · 11 min
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Case Study
TechNest: From $14K Monthly Fraud Loss to Near Zero in 30 Days

A Texas-based electronics retailer was losing a third of its margin to card fraud and chargebacks every month. This is the full story of how they deployed WM Tech and what the data looked like week by week.

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Zara Ahmed
May 5, 2026 · 7 min
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Engineering
How We Process 40,000 Support Interactions Per Day With Sub-2 Second Latency

A look at the infrastructure design choices — event queue architecture, stateless microservices, and model serving optimization — that let us maintain <2s response times at our current scale.

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Tom Sanderson
Apr 29, 2026 · 13 min
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Product Updates
v1.0 Launch: Custom Fine-Tuning, Make Integration, and Multi-Store Dashboard

Our public launch release. Enterprise customers can now fine-tune the AI model on their own product catalog and return history. Plus: a new Make module, expanded language support, and improved fraud signal detection.

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James Park
Apr 22, 2026 · 5 min

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