Glossary
Definitions of key terms used across Runner AI — storefronts, store operations, tasks, and more.
- 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
- The transactional side of your store, including products, inventory, orders, fulfillment, and other day-to-day commerce tasks.
- 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
- Repeatable workflows that Runner triggers on a schedule or in response to store events, such as sending a notification or updating an order.
- 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.