​Building Buy-It.ai: Real Lessons from Deploying AI in Commerce

​July 9 | 8:00–9:00 AM | Arkade

​Most AI projects work in demos. Far fewer survive contact with real customers, real data, and real business constraints.

​In this session, Łukasz Augustyniak, Co-Founder and CTO of Buy-It.ai, shares the engineering journey behind building a production AI platform that transforms video content into shoppable experiences. Through real examples, successes, and failures, he will present five practical lessons learned from deploying computer vision and LLM systems in live commerce environments.

​Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of what separates impressive AI demos from AI systems that actually generate measurable business value.

​Speaker Bio
Łukasz Augustyniak is an AI architect, researcher, and entrepreneur with a PhD in Computer Science and a background in intellectual property law. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed research papers and contributed to leading AI conferences including NeurIPS, ACL, and EMNLP. His work spans machine learning, computer vision, NLP, and large-scale AI deployment, with collaborations including NVIDIA and Panasonic.

​As Co-Founder and CTO of Buy-It.ai, he leads the development of AI systems that bridge research and real-world commercial applications, helping organizations deploy solutions that generate measurable business value.

​Audience Takeaways
• How to distinguish AI demos from production-ready AI systems
• Five lessons learned from deploying computer vision and LLM workflows in real commerce environments
• Common reasons companies waste AI budgets and how to avoid them
• Practical frameworks for building AI that delivers measurable ROI
• Real-world insights from scaling AI products used by actual customers