Algolia Unlocks Clean, Contextual Data at Scale with Introduction of Intelligent Data Kit

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 2025 — Algolia today unveiled the Intelligent Data Kit, a new suite of tools that reimagines how organizations work with data—making it cleaner, smarter, and radically more useful.

Poor data quality is a hidden drain on performance and can cost organizations trillions of dollars each year. It undermines decision-making, erodes customer trust, and exposes companies to serious regulatory risks under laws like GDPR (the European General Data Protection Regulation) and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).

In the case of search, poor data quality also results in a poor customer experience. Great search is more than fast; it’s precise, personalized, and contextually rich. But achieving that quality depends on the foundation: your data. Many teams struggle to get clean, structured, and searchable data into Algolia. Additionally, it is extremely cumbersome to modify the data for different contexts on an ongoing basis. Traditional approaches rely on brittle ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) scripts, spreadsheets, or batch jobs that often break, lag, or fail to capture nuance.

Bharat Guruprakash, Chief Product Officer, Algolia noted: “Improving data quality is not just a technical necessity—it’s a business imperative. At Algolia, we believe great search starts with access to great data. The Intelligent Data Kit is our answer to the complexity that holds businesses back. By combining tools and methods designed to transform the way an organization analyzes, understands, and uses data to make better decisions and improve products and services, we’re putting the power of clean, enriched, and actionable data into the hands of every team—no data science degree required.”

Designed for both business users and developers, the Intelligent Data Kit brings the clarity of great design and the power of artificial intelligence to one of the most complex challenges in modern business: making sense of data.

Built on over a decade of experience managing more than 30 billion records and 8+ billion ecommerce items, Algolia’s Intelligent Data Kit is not just a set of tools—it’s a foundation for better decision-making, faster innovation, and transformative digital experiences.

Smarter Data, Simpler Process, More Possibilities

At the heart of the Intelligent Data Kit will be three core sets of capabilities, comprising:

• Data Transformation: Clean, shape, and enhance your data with intuitive no-code tools or AI-assisted suggestions.
• Data Enrichment: Add context and meaning with AI-driven attribute enrichment.
• Integrations: Connect seamlessly with your existing data stack using no-code connectors.

Data Transformations and Integrations are available now with new features being added periodically. Data Enrichment will be added at a later date. These capabilities come together to provide a unified view of an organization’s data—complete with metadata, quality insights, and relationships—enabling trust, transparency, and control across the enterprise.

AI + No Code = A Breakthrough in Data Usability

The Intelligent Data Kit introduces two new powerful ways to work with data—no coding required.

• No-Code Data Transformations: Empower business users to make changes directly: compute custom rankings, clean irrelevant fields, create price bands, or tag seasonal products—all from a simple, visual interface.
• AI-Assisted Transformations: Simply describe what is wanted in plain English—like “tag all dresses under $100 as ‘budget’” and Algolia’s AI builds the transformation intelligently and instantly.

Guruprakash added: “With the Intelligent Data Kit, we’re removing one of the biggest barriers to great search and personalization: clean, usable data. Our new No-Code and AI-Assisted Transformations allow anyone—from merchandisers and content managers to marketers—to prepare and shape their data without writing a single line of code. Simply describe what you want in plain English, and Algolia does the rest. It’s a faster, smarter way to unlock business insights and deliver better digital experiences.”

Unlock the Full Potential of Data

Data rarely arrives ready for use—it often comes from disconnected sources, with inconsistent formats, duplicates, and missing information. It often comes from fragmented systems, contains inconsistent formats, duplicate records, and missing fields. As a result, preparing data becomes a time-consuming and error-prone task that delays insights and outcomes. The Intelligent Data Kit solves this by helping every team—technical or not—deliver better outcomes, faster by:

• Making search smarter: Better data drives better relevance and a more intuitive experience for customers or users.
• Putting power in the hands of business users: No waiting on dev cycles. With point-and-click tools and AI support, business teams can take action on their own.
• Moving faster post-implementation: Accelerate iteration, reduce technical bottlenecks, and adapt to change with agility.

Real-World Use Cases

With Algolia’s Intelligent Data Kit, teams can:

• Highlight promotions automatically: Add a label to highlight products with strong discounts; Helps merchandisers spotlight high converting products without dev support
• Build dynamic price buckets for filtering: Segment products into bands like “budget”, “mid-range”, “premium”; Supports faceting and customer filtering by value perception
• Tag seasonal products for campaigns: Apply tags for seasonal relevance like Christmas, Summer, etc; Enables dynamic curation for campaigns and landing pages
• Clean and streamline datasets: Clean the dataset by stripping out internal or unused fields; Reduces index bloat, improves performance, and removes noise
• Exclude junk or test data from search: Exclude placeholder or invalid records from being indexed; Prevents poor-quality data from impacting search quality
• Compute missing discount percentages: Derive discount_pct from price and sale_price if missing; Enables better ranking and filtering based on deal attractiveness
• Create advanced custom ranking formulas: Compute a weighted score using attributes like popularity, recency, and discount; Helps boost top-performing products based on multiple merch signals
• Categorize products by shopper-friendly size groups: Add a size_category attribute by inferring from size values; Makes it easier to group and filter by shopper-friendly categories like small/regular/plus sizes
• Enrich Search with real-time data: Seamlessly pull data from third-party APIs using Algolia’s Fetch capability (e.g., translations, rankings, maps, currency) directly into an Algolia transformation pipeline; whether it’s translating content with DeepL, fetching live store locations from Google Maps, or personalizing results using Stripe purchase history, Fetch makes it effortless.

From merchandisers and content managers to data analysts and developers, everyone now has the tools they need to deliver faster, smarter, and more impactful digital experiences.

Algolia’s Intelligent Data Kit is available today, with No Code and AI-Assisted Transformations available for immediate ordering. To learn more, visit algolia.com/intelligent-data-kit.

About Algolia

Algolia is the leading AI search engine, serving over 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers globally. Renowned for its user-friendly API-First platform and the fastest AI search technology, Algolia is the largest hosted search engine, trusted by businesses and developers for 1.75 trillion searches per year. Backed by a decade of innovation, expertise, and growth, Algolia continuously redefines the search landscape with its commitment to user-friendly solutions, significant scalability, and unmatched speed. Learn more: www.algolia.com.

Source: Algolia