Shoppable brings multi-retailer cart building to ChatGPT's plugin directory

Founder Heather Udo is adapting checkout infrastructure built for publishers and ads to OpenAI's new merchant-app model.

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Primary source: PR Newswire

Why it matters

OpenAI's retreat from a single in-chat checkout created room for infrastructure providers that connect AI discovery to merchant-controlled purchasing. Shoppable is testing whether a 2011 checkout thesis can become the transaction layer for AI shopping.

Illustration of Shoppable showing a multi-retailer shopping cart inside ChatGPT's plugin directory interface.

Heather Udo brought her 15-year bet that checkout should travel to the shopper into ChatGPT on Wednesday.…

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