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Pinterest builds a standalone AI shopping app
Does Pinterest know your taste better than any other platform?

Pinterest just shipped something worth paying attention to.
A new standalone app called Ask Pinterest. Conversational AI shopping built on Pinterest's Taste Graph β its internal data mapping people to their interests and aesthetics.
Ask complex questions. Plan a dinner party. Furnish a room over time. Get personalized recommendations that carry context across sessions.
Available in limited access now via web on mobile and desktop.
Today's prompt gets you better deals in every vendor negotiation. Tips and Tricks Thursday covers how to turn one webinar into a month of content. Then the full story on what Pinterest just launched and why it matters.
π₯ Prompt of the Day π₯
AI Vendor Negotiation Prep Brief: Use ChatGPT or Claude
Create one better-deal preparation system.
"Act as a procurement specialist. Create one negotiation preparation brief for [VENDOR TYPE] that helps you secure better terms.
Essential Details:
Vendor Category: [WHAT THEY SUPPLY]
Current Spend: [ANNUAL AMOUNT]
Contract Status: [RENEWAL/NEW]
Alternatives Available: [OTHER OPTIONS]
Leverage Points: [YOUR STRENGTHS]
Desired Outcome: [BETTER PRICE/TERMS]
Create one negotiation brief including:
Market rate research prompts
Competitor vendor comparison
Your leverage point summary
Opening position and walkaway point
Counter-offer response scripts
Agreement confirmation template
Prepared buyers get better deals."
Variables:
VENDOR TYPE: What kind of supplier you're negotiating with
WHAT THEY SUPPLY: The specific product or service
ANNUAL AMOUNT: Your current spend
CONTRACT STATUS: Renewal or new relationship
OTHER OPTIONS: Alternatives you could credibly switch to
YOUR STRENGTHS: What gives you leverage
Why This Works:
Most people enter vendor negotiations underprepared and leave money on the table. AI builds the brief that researches market rates, maps your leverage, sets your opening position and walkaway point, and prepares responses for every counter-offer scenario. Prepared buyers consistently get better terms than unprepared ones.
β Tips and Tricks Thursday β
AI Webinar Replay Converter
Most businesses record a webinar, upload it to a landing page, and never touch it again.
Hours of content. One piece of collateral. Massive waste.
AI changes the math entirely.
The Problem
A webinar contains a blog post. Multiple social media posts. An email sequence. A FAQ document. A lead magnet.
None of that gets extracted because turning one piece of content into five takes time nobody has after the event is over.
What You're Sitting On
Every webinar you've recorded contains:
A complete transcript full of insights, frameworks, and quotable moments.
An audience Q&A section full of the exact questions your market is asking.
Teaching moments that work as standalone social posts.
A narrative arc that makes a natural email series.
All of it is already done. It just hasn't been repurposed.
How To Do It With AI
Get the transcript. Most webinar platforms generate these automatically. If not, upload the recording to a transcription tool first.
Then run it through Claude or ChatGPT with a series of specific prompts:
"Turn this transcript into a 1,000-word blog post covering the main teaching points."
"Pull out five standalone social media posts from the most compelling moments in this transcript."
"Create a three-email sequence summarizing the main lessons from this webinar for subscribers who didn't attend."
"Generate a FAQ document from the Q&A section of this transcript."
Each prompt takes under five minutes. Each output is a piece of content that would otherwise have taken hours to produce from scratch.
The Repurposing Checklist
Set up a simple checklist that runs every time you finish a piece of long-form content.
Blog post version. Done.
Five social posts. Done.
Email series. Done.
FAQ from Q&A. Done.
Short-form clips identified for video. Done.
Run the checklist. Every piece of content produces its full asset library.
What This Means In Practice
One webinar fuels roughly a month of content if you extract everything it contains.
Most businesses are leaving three to four weeks of content sitting unused on every recording they've ever made. The backlog alone is worth going through.
What To Do
Pick your last three webinar recordings this week.
Get the transcripts.
Run the four prompts above for each one.
Set up a repurposing checklist for everything you create going forward.
One webinar should fuel a month of content. Start treating it that way.
Did You Know?
AI trained on millions of social media posts can now predict major stock market movements up to 72 hours in advance by reading collective shifts in public mood and language patterns β not from financial discussion, but from how people talk about everyday life, weather complaints, and weekend plans.
ποΈ Breaking News ποΈ
Pinterest Launches Ask Pinterest β A Conversational AI Shopping App Built on Its Taste Graph
Pinterest just shipped a standalone app that takes conversational AI shopping in a direction nobody else is trying.
Called Ask Pinterest. Available in limited access via web on mobile and desktop.
Ask questions in natural language. Get personalized shopping recommendations and inspiration based on Pinterest's Taste Graph β its proprietary data mapping people to their interests and aesthetics.
Why a Separate App
Pinterest built Ask Pinterest as a standalone app deliberately.
It lets them experiment with conversational AI without disrupting the main Pinterest experience. Test, iterate, and learn β then bring the best of what works back into the flagship app.
Smart product strategy. Lower risk. Faster learning.
What It Does Differently
Traditional Pinterest search works on keywords and visual browsing. That works well for simple queries.
Ask Pinterest is built for complex and multi-step questions that don't fit that model.
Planning a dinner party from scratch. Furnishing a room in phases over several months. Building a wardrobe around a new aesthetic. These are conversations not keyword searches.
The app retains context across sessions β meaning it remembers what you've discussed before and builds on it. That's the meaningful differentiator from a one-off search.
When users sign in, Ask Pinterest can also pull from their saved Pins and Boards to further personalize recommendations.
What Else Pinterest Announced
AI assistant in Ads Manager now in beta in the U.S.
New AI model within Performance+ to help advertisers pick between ad creatives to find the one most likely to perform best for each impression.
Pinterest MCP β an infrastructure layer allowing advertisers to manage and monitor campaigns using third-party agentic tools in a standardized way.
Why This Matters
Pinterest's chief business officer said it directly: "The future of discovery won't be driven by keywords alone. It will be shaped by context, taste, and trusted recommendations."
That is a precise description of where AI shopping is heading. And Pinterest has a genuine advantage there.
The Taste Graph gives Pinterest something most AI shopping tools don't have β years of data mapping individuals to their aesthetic preferences, not just their purchase history. That's a different and arguably deeper signal for personalization.
Every major platform is building a conversational AI layer on top of their product discovery experience right now. Google, ChatGPT, Meta, Shopify. Pinterest is not late. They are building on data that none of those competitors have.
What This Means
For Pinterest users, Ask Pinterest is worth trying once it opens access. The multi-session context retention for complex planning tasks is genuinely useful in a way that standard search is not.
For advertisers on Pinterest, the MCP integration and Performance+ AI model both reduce the manual work of campaign management. Worth testing when the Ads Manager assistant comes out of beta.
For the broader AI shopping market, Pinterest entering conversational commerce with a taste-based dataset is a different kind of competitor than any platform currently in this space.
Discovery just got a lot more personal.
Over to You...
Pinterest just launched an AI shopping app that remembers your taste across sessions. Does a platform that knows your aesthetic have an edge over one that just knows your purchase history?
Tell me what you think.
To taste being the new search signal,
Jeff J. Hunter
Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai
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