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Bridgeline Digital closes AI search deal in 14 days with B2B distributor

June 30, 2026 8:32 AM

Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLIN) announced that a U.S.-based wholesale distributor of pet, farm, garden, and home products has selected its HawkSearch platform to power product discovery within a BigCommerce ecommerce environment.

According to a company statement, the distributor manages a catalog of approximately 25,500 products and variants, handling more than 450,000 monthly sessions and over 310,000 page views. The customer's existing keyword-based search had struggled to deliver relevant results and lacked support for customer-specific entitlements, dynamic pricing, and personalization.

Bridgeline said the deal progressed from evaluation to signed agreement in 14 days, which the company described as a record for its sales cycle. The company entered the competitive evaluation process later than other vendors.

HawkSearch is expected to provide relevance-driven search, entitlements-based product visibility, dynamic merchandising tools, unit-of-measure normalization, and advanced faceting and filtering capabilities for the distributor's B2B platform.

"B2B distributors are under increasing pressure to deliver fast, accurate, and personalized product discovery experiences," said Ari Kahn, President and CEO of Bridgeline Digital. "This win highlights not only the strength of HawkSearch's AI-powered capabilities, but also our ability to deliver value quickly and win in highly competitive environments."

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