Glossary
The words you'll meet in Runner — storefront, store operations, tasks, experiments — explained in one line each.
- Runner
- Your AI business partner for designing, building, operating, and continuously improving your e-commerce store.
- Storefront
- The customer-facing online store generated by Runner AI. It can be published on a runnerai.com subdomain or your own custom domain.
- Store Operations
- Everything that happens after someone clicks buy — products, stock, orders, and shipping — which Runner handles for you.
- Runner Task
- A single end-to-end task Runner completes for a project — for example, generating a new section, running an experiment, or applying an optimization.
- Experiments
- An automated experiment where Runner AI compares two storefront variants on real traffic and promotes the winner based on conversion lift.
- Automations
- Things Runner does for you on a schedule or when something happens in your store — like emailing a customer or updating an order — so you don't have to remember to.
- Project
- A merchant workspace that owns a storefront, its history, its active experiments, and the Runner tasks performed on its behalf.
- Workspace
- A team-level container that groups projects, members, billing, and shared configuration under a single organization.
- Preview
- A live, shareable version of your storefront that you can review before publishing.