Made in Canada: Developer Shares E-commerce Search Stack Ditching OpenAI Entirely
Nils_Reimers · x · 2026-08-01
A developer has showcased the tech stack for their e-commerce search platform, which indexes 110,000 Canadian products across 425 brands. The core highlight is that the entire stack completely bypasses non-Canadian services like OpenAI.
The specific tech selection includes:
- Cohere (Toronto) for embeddings and reranking
- turbopuffer (Ottawa) for hybrid search
- Shopify (Canada) for product data
This architecture provides a practical reference case for developers focused on data sovereignty or looking to combine non-mainstream AI tools.
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