Making $$ with Alibaba's NEW AI Agents (Full Demo)

**Greg Isenberg** (0:00)
Why is no one talking about Alibaba's new AI agent platform? It's made it ridiculous easy to find ideas, find trends, find suppliers, reach out to them, and figure out if there's an opportunity for a multi-million dollar e-commerce business. I'm a guy who's a software entrepreneur. You know, I stay away from e-commerce, I know my lane. But this new AI agent platform, it's called Accio by Alibaba, is getting me a little converted, you know? And now there's an opportunity for me to use something that makes it easy to start an e-commerce business. And I love unfair advantages. So this episode, if you stick to the end, you'll understand how to use Accio. And you might be like me, interested in starting a multi-million dollar e-commerce business in 2026 Enjoy the episode.
I've never been a huge e-commerce person. And a big reason for that is because it's been so hard to understand what to build, why to build it, and how to build it. And today we're going to go through Accio. Accio. And by the end of this episode, you will understand how to use it. And maybe in 2026, building a really big e-commerce business. And even if you're not, if you're like me and you're a software person, or you're a boring business person, and you've never created an e-commerce business, learning these tools is super helpful. So I encourage you to stay to the end. Let's get into it. So when you get to Accio, it's actually free. And by the way, I have no affiliation with Alibaba or this company. I'm just a guy who likes to use products that give me an unfair advantage. You can see that they've given you some examples of how to use the product. So for example, Spot Rising Trends. So it says, analyze current market trends in baby products and identify what is gaining traffic. So you can click here, view details. So it gives you an overview, and it ties into Amazon Trends. You can see here the search volume is in the blue, and in the pink, the sales count. But okay, you can get that trend data anywhere. What's really interesting is it gives you actual products that are crushing it. So it's like, convertible cribs with GreenGuard Gold certification. This is a category I would never have thought of. Or multifunctional convertible cribs with beds and smart features. And by the way, I have a baby, so I should be thinking about this. And I'm an idea guy, so I should be thinking about this. But I haven't. So I think that this is why it's good to use this. And it gives you more market insights, right? Organic and natural products. Okay, I could have come up with that. But smart baby products is a key differentiator. Smart monitors, app-connected thermometers, automating feeding systems are gaining popularity. And then you can go in a perplexity or whatever, go and actually check the sources. So it gives you the product recommendations. It says, based on stable demand for electric nasal aspirators, despite fluctuating surge volumes, enhancing features like suction power, temperature control, ease of cleaning. So it gives you these products. It shows what's working. And I think that's pretty cool. But what I think is even more cool is that it could actually create product designs. So, for example, you can hear, since Squid Game, Netflix 3 is popular right now, I want to design some products based on Squid Games. Help me figure out what kind of products can sell well and generate product design image. And then it goes and actually does a market analysis on it. And it shows like, okay, here's these costumes and masks. Here's some guard costumes. Netflix player 456 jacket. All these different things. And it literally gives you product design concepts. Now, is this something that is good to go and you can just say like, okay, go make it? I don't think so, but it's getting you the creative juices, at least it's getting my creative juices flowing. And it puts all these product design concepts into visualizations. And then what I think is most importantly, it actually gives you who you could reach out to, to go and build these things and what it's going to cost. So you can see here, $6.71 for a hoodie. And it's a verified manufacturer. And if you click here, it says matches. So why is it a match? 8 on 9 matches? Well, because they do screen printing, they do embroidery. And I think this is why it's cool that it's built in with Alibaba. And by the way, it doesn't just integrate with Alibaba, it integrates with other Alibaba Express and a few others. So it gives you that data and then you could go ahead and just reach out to people. Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy and he is not wrong. I think that right now is an incredible time to be building a startup. And if you listen to this podcast, chances are you think so too. Now, I think that you can look at trends to basically figure out what are the startup ideas you should be building. So that's exactly why I built ideabrowser.com. Every single day, you're gonna get a free startup idea in your inbox and it's all backed by high quality data trends. How we do it, people always ask. We use AI agents to go and search, what are people looking for and what are they screaming for in terms of products that you should be building and then we hand it on a silver platter for you to go check out. We do have a few paid plans that take it to the next level, give you more ideas, give you more AI agents and more, almost like a chat GBT for ideas with it, but you can start for free ideabrowser.com and if you're listening to this, I highly recommend it. You can see here, it also gives you some insight around, what's the margin potential? So like hoodies, for example, the margin is 200 to 300%. Maybe I want to do that, but oh no, maybe a phone case is 300 to 400%. And it tells you the MOQ range, basically how many units, and then the wholesale price and the target retail. But it also says that you need to do licensing, right? So why is this all really interesting? Is it's giving you ideas, because it's basically like a partner for you, and someone who's going and doing the analysis, and I think it's super, super helpful. Let's go through a few more, and then I'm also going to prompt it myself. So let's go and see, here's a new feature that they come out with. Help me identify product opportunity pain points in pet supplies that serve the senior dog's niche market. So you can see here, here's the product opportunities, advanced orthopedic sleep solutions. Would never have thought about this, right? It says like have cooling gel integration for temperature regulation, low profiles for easy access. Makes sense, right? If you're a senior dog, you want a low profile for easy access. Memory foam technology. I could see a product like this absolutely crushing it. Cognitive simulation product. So senior dogs face cognitive decline. This creates opportunities for interactive smart toys, treat dispensing puzzle feeders, memory enhancing accessories. And then it literally mocks up what it could look like. And that's AI, man. I mean, yes, the STOM over there, I don't know what that means, but like it's interesting, right? This looks like an interesting product and it is good fodder to start with. And then from there, you can iterate. And you know, you could iterate with other tools by the way, like I've talked about on the channel, things like Nano, Banana, et cetera. So it gives you all the search volume. It gives you the positive tags and negative tags. So like this is based on Amazon trends. So you can see that there's, you know, washable pee pads for senior dogs and the average rating is 3.88. So like that's a bad rating, right? So that means that there's an opportunity to create great products. And it's giving you, it's telling you why people aren't enjoying the products on Amazon. This is so insightful, you know? I've talked about before how this is the age of the idea person, but it's also the age of the insight person, right? You need these insights in order to actually create products that people want. And I think that's what's so cool about this age, is you can use a product like this to get the insight so that you don't waste years of your life here. So I love this, you know, joint health supplements. It tells you exactly how many monthly searches, what the average rating is, and then it gives you the hot selling market analysis. Joint supplements, you can see here, retail price versus wholesale price. You know, for me, this is some of the most helpful insights is when it actually tells you what the market opportunities, right? So it's telling you, you know, arthritis, hip dysplasia, all these things, and then, you know, that helps me ideate for what type of product I want to create. So what's really cool about Accio is it helps me on the idea side, it helps me on the trend side, and it helps me in terms of like who I should reach out to. So let's do one around like sourcing. So find manufacturers that offer high quality, this is the prompt, find manufacturers that offer high quality facial cleansing brush with OEM service, private label available, MOQ 500 with official certifications and strong reviews. So it literally is giving me all the different suppliers right here, and then I can reach out to them through this product.