# Searchspring (now Athos Commerce)

> Searchspring is an ecommerce search, merchandising and personalization company founded in 2007. Now part of PSG-backed Athos Commerce alongside Klevu and Intelligent Reach, it helps retailers connect shopper intent with products on their own stores and across external sales channels.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** San Antonio, United States
- **Founders:** Gareth Dismore (Co-founder and former CEO), Scott Zielinski (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Search and autocomplete, Merchandising, Personalization, Product Feed Management, Intelligent Discovery Platform
- **Notable:** Searchspring operated as a bootstrapped business for about 11 years before the Scaleworks acquisition., Athos reports more than 2,700 brands across 50+ countries., Absolute-Snow reports a 1.1 percentage-point conversion increase and items per transaction rising from 1.4 to 1.6.

## Products & services

- **Search and autocomplete** — Commerce search, navigation and relevance tools for retailer catalogs.
- **Merchandising** — Visual product placement, ranking rules, campaigns and testing.
- **Personalization** — Behavior-based product recommendations and individualized discovery.
- **Product Feed Management** — Product data optimization and syndication for external channels, incorporating Intelligent Reach.
- **Intelligent Discovery Platform** — Unified Athos search, personalization, merchandising, analytics and feed management.
- **AI Assistants** — Conversational Assistant, Channel Assistant and GEO Assistant for shopping guidance, feeds and generative discovery.
- **APIs, Snap SDK and managed implementations** — Options for custom storefront integration and supported deployment.

## Achievements

- Searchspring operated as a bootstrapped business for about 11 years before the Scaleworks acquisition.
- Athos reports more than 2,700 brands across 50+ countries.
- Absolute-Snow reports a 1.1 percentage-point conversion increase and items per transaction rising from 1.4 to 1.6.
- Aje reports 2-3 days of weekly merchandising time savings; the case study is vendor-published.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Athos revised its platform rollout to protect Q4 trading, targeting Q1 2026 general availability.
- **2026-02** — Searchspring-to-Athos API migration documentation was marked ready to implement; Beacon 1.0 entered maintenance mode.
- **2026-06** — Athos launched its Intelligent Discovery Platform and three AI assistants at Shoptalk Europe.

## Links

- Website: https://athoscommerce.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/searchspring/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SearchSpring
- GitHub: https://github.com/searchspring
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/athoscommerce/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Searchspring/

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Last updated: 2026-10-01