AI agent for retail sales associates
New Product Training Agent
Every associate can answer the common questions about a new product before it goes on the floor
What it does
New products arrive on Monday, and by Tuesday customers are asking questions that the associates cannot answer. This agent builds a short learning plan from the product sheets and the likely customer questions. It sends the plan to each associate, quizzes them, and checks scores by topic. Weak topics are repeated in a different form until the associate can answer correctly. At the end it asks the common customer questions as a final check. It then prepares a sign-off list for the lead. The store lead approves. Edge case: an associate scores well on features but misses safety information, so the agent repeats that topic before sign-off.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- New product announced
- Read the product sheets and list key facts and customer questions
- Build a short learning plan and a quiz for each topic
- Send the plan and quiz to each associate
- Score results by associate and topic
- Did every associate pass every topic?If not: send a different version of the weak topics. Back to step 4.
- Run the final customer question check
- Can the associate answer the common questions correctly?If not: repeat the missed questions and rescore. Back to step 3.
- Store lead approves sign-offThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Training completion list
How it decides
A topic is passed when the associate answers at least 80 percent correctly twice. Weak topics repeat in a new form until passed.
- Pass a topic with 80 percent or better
- Repeat a failed topic in a different form
- Require safety and return policy topics to pass at 100 percent
- Limit each session to 10 minutes
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Pass mark (default 80%)
- Session length
- Topics required at 100%
- Quiz format
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Store lead approves sign-off for each associate
Hard limits
- Do not invent product facts
- Use only product sheets
- Never sign off without approval
It stops when
- Done: all associates signed off
- Stop: product information is unclear and the lead asks the brand for help
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide