Live regional product-data API to power AI shopping backends targets a $12.0B = 50M online merchants/global x $240 annual spend on product-data & search APIs per merchant (hosting, search, feeds, integrations). total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18% annual growth in developer APIs and e-commerce middleware adoption globally; SEA e-commerce growing 20-30% YoY..

Key trends driving demand: LLM-enabled shopping agents -- LLMs require reliable, real-time data sources to answer product & price queries reliably, creating demand for hosted APIs.; Composable backends adoption -- developer preference for Supabase/Firestore + best-of-breed APIs makes lightweight connectors attractive and rapidly adoptable.; Regionalization of e-commerce -- global APIs often miss SEA specifics (local merchants, currencies, promos), so localized data services gain traction.; Privacy & cookieless measurement -- server-side APIs and verified merchant feeds are preferred over client-side tracking and brittle scraping..