Understanding your analytics is key to improving search performance, but finding issues or opportunities can take time.

AI Assist can now answer questions about your search analytics within the Algolia dashboard. Looking for a general overview? Ask Assist to summarize your search performance, highlight recent trends, or identify opportunities for improvement. Or, if you want to drill down into a specific question, ask about individual metrics or compare performance across indices or time periods.

To get started, open Assist and click “Analyze my search performance”, or ask your analytics question in natural language.

If you need to work with your data outside the dashboard, Assist can also generate downloadable CSVs containing the analytics you've requested, making it easy to continue your analysis offline.

DocSearch UI library v5 introduces an improved search experience powered by Agent Studio, with MCP-based tools, prompt suggestions, and conversational memory. Users can also refine results with facet filters, breadcrumbs, and badges. Customers upgrading from v4 should review the migration guide, as some Ask AI parameters have changed. Click here to learn more. 

DocSearch MCP is now available in public beta, enabling MCP-compatible AI coding assistants to search current public developer documentation and answer with cited sources. No signup, API key, or authentication is required to use the hosted endpoint. This helps reduce outdated or unsupported answers by grounding responses in current documentation and making sources easy to verify. Click here to learn more.

Algolia's Shopify integration now supports Shopify's native B2B catalogs, in public beta. Signed-in B2B buyers see only the products their company location is entitled to, at their negotiated prices, across search and browse. Merchants turn it on in the Algolia app under Indexing > B2B settings. Click here to learn more.

AI agents can now create Algolia accounts and applications directly from the Algolia CLI, extending agent workflows beyond managing existing accounts. Agents can also manage application settings after signup, while sensitive actions such as accepting terms, email verification, and billing changes continue to require human approval. This enables end-to-end agent-driven provisioning with appropriate safeguards. Click here to learn more.

Strong search starts with the right relevance settings, but it's easy for search configuration to move away from best practices over time.

You can now optimise key search settings with AI Assist, in line with your search goals and Algolia’s best practice. To start, ask AI Assist to “improve my search configuration” and select an existing index. Assist will ask a couple of questions on your industry and search goals, which will tailor its recommendations for the following core search settings: Searchable attributes, Custom ranking, Ranking and Sorting, and Typo Tolerance.

Using Algolia’s best practices, your current index configuration and information on your search goals, Assist will analyse your settings to suggest changes. For any of Assist’s suggestions, you’ll see a clear explanation and details of how your settings will change. Users with the Set-Up Search permission can click to apply all or some of Assist’s changes.

If your index is included in any active A/B tests, you can automatically propagate the same optimisations to other indices. These changes can also be shared with replicas from within Assist. All of Assist’s changes will be tracked in the audit log for your visibility.

Public MCP now supports a new multi-query signature with advanced AI search settings. Configure search parameters such as searchable attributes, ranking, and filters independently of index settings, and update them without recreating the MCP. Click here to learn more.

Recommend-based groups let you populate a Smart Group with items from an Algolia's Trending Items Recommend model into a category page or collection. You define the model to query and Algolia injects its top recommendations at the position you specify. We only support the Trending Items Recommend model. Click here to learn more. 

AI Assist now understands your configuration and uses this to provide advice that's tailored and relevant. A question like “Why do I have a high no-results rate?” will be met with targeted guidance on how to change your current set-up. Assist will also provide links to navigate you to relevant parts of the Algolia platform. This allows you to quickly find the relevant solution needed to take action on an Assist conversation. Assist is aware of your application’s current subscription tier and Algolia release version, and will only direct you to features you can access.

Agent Studio is now generally available, providing a managed platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents grounded in Algolia data. Customers can configure model providers, connect search and recommendation tools, add safety controls, and monitor conversations through a single API and dashboard. This reduces the complexity of building production-ready AI experiences while providing a consistent, scalable foundation for agent development. Click here to learn more.