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Bridgeline Digital Inc. reports developments in AI-powered marketing technology delivered through a cloud-based SaaS model. Its recurring updates center on HawkSearch, the company’s search, merchandising, personalization, and product discovery platform for eCommerce sites. Announcements regularly describe customer selections by wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, and retail brands managing complex product catalogs across platforms such as OroCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, and Znode.
Company updates also cover HawkSearch capabilities including visual search, Concept Search, Unified Search, Unit of Measure normalization, entitlements, product recommendations, and merchandising controls. Bridgeline frames these tools around online revenue functions such as site traffic, conversion rates, and average order value.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ: BLIN) announced that a large North American B2B distributor has selected its HawkSearch platform to power product discovery and AI-assisted shopping across the distributor’s eCommerce site. After a competitive evaluation, the distributor also committed to deploying Smart Response and Search Assistant to enhance AI-driven buyer interactions.
According to Bridgeline, HawkSearch was chosen for advanced merchandising controls, relevant search, and AI-powered product discovery suited to complex B2B catalogs. The decision highlights increasing enterprise adoption of integrated AI shopping assistants that combine search, personalization, and merchandising within a unified product discovery platform.
Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced the launch of a new franchise application platform for a leading North American convenience retailer, extending an existing enterprise relationship after a prior franchise portal deployment. The solution supports franchise recruitment and onboarding for prospective franchise owners across Canada.
The platform replaces a manual, paper-based process with workflow automation, secure document management, integrated e-signatures, and self-service application tracking. According to Bridgeline, project objectives indicate the digital portal is expected to shorten onboarding and qualification timelines by an estimated 30 to 60 days while improving operational efficiency and providing a scalable foundation for the retailer’s future franchise growth initiatives.
Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ: BLIN) announced that a longstanding specialty online retail customer has signed a multi-year expansion agreement for its HawkSearch platform, extending through 2029. The retailer is upgrading from a legacy deployment to HawkSearch’s latest OpenSearch-based architecture, increasing API and record capacity and adding Visual Search for image-driven product discovery.
According to Bridgeline, the modernization supports the customer’s continued eCommerce growth and enables adoption of HawkSearch’s AI roadmap, including enhanced semantic search, personalization, and next-generation shopping experiences. HawkSearch was chosen for its flexible foundation, advanced merchandising tools, and scalable, AI-powered search capabilities.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced a multi-year SaaS agreement in which a leading global distribution company selected its HawkSearch solution to power B2B eCommerce search, displacing an existing legacy platform. The distributor is a multinational supplier of cleaning, safety, processing, and packaging materials across many industries.
According to Bridgeline, HawkSearch was chosen for advanced B2B capabilities such as customer-specific pricing and visibility, complex part-number mapping, product restrictions by buyer segment, and flexible merchandising for large catalogs on a BigCommerce environment. The deal is described as a high-value win with potential expansion across additional business units over time.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced a U.S. DIY hardware retailer chose its HawkSearch AI search platform for a new Unilog-powered storefront, marking the fifth customer from the Unilog partnership.
The deployment covers about 120,000 records and includes keyword, Smart, Image, Visual, Faceted, and Unified Search to improve relevancy, SKU handling, and long-tail queries.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced its 25th HawkSearch deployment this fiscal year, launching for a multi-brand appliance retailer. The AI-powered search platform replaces a legacy system to improve product discovery across a large catalog with unified AI search, visual search, autocomplete, recommendations, and advanced merchandising controls.
The initial rollout establishes a scalable foundation, with Phase 2 planned for Smart Response, advanced analytics, landing page optimization, and conversational search, highlighting growing AI commerce adoption among multi-brand and multi-site retailers.
Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced that its HawkSearch platform was ranked #1 for the B2B Search use case in Gartner’s 2026 Critical Capabilities for Search and Product Discovery report, for the second consecutive year.
The company highlights HawkSearch’s focus on complex B2B catalogs and ongoing investment in AI-driven product discovery, including B2B search assistants, analytics assistants, and agentic commerce capabilities.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced that a U.S.-based wholesale distributor of pet, farm, garden, and home products selected HawkSearch to power product discovery on its BigCommerce platform.
The B2B distributor, with about 25,500 products and 450,000 monthly sessions, closed in just 14 days, marking Bridgeline's fastest AI search sale.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced that a U.S.-based industrial bearing distributor selected its HawkSearch solution for product discovery on a BigCommerce eCommerce site.
The deal, closed in 21 days after a competitive evaluation, includes HawkSearch’s AI Search Assistant to improve technical B2B search, ordering workflows, and industrial eCommerce performance.
Bridgeline (NASDAQ:BLIN) announced that a U.S.-based B2B distributor of warehouse and industrial data-capture equipment selected its HawkSearch platform to power eCommerce product discovery after a competitive evaluation.
The deployment will address complex, attribute-heavy catalogs with features like part-number and Unit of Measure normalization, personalization, unified product/content search, and business user merchandising controls, which Bridgeline links to growing B2B AI-search adoption.