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Superbar

Superbar is a Toronto e-commerce software startup (Y Combinator S22). Its current product, Superbar 2.0, adds a full-screen, vertical product feed to online stores that uses behavioural AI to rank products for each shopper. Founded in 2021 by Alan Nowogrodski, it started as lead-qualification tool Caddie, then built an AI sales assistant that answers shopper questions on websites.

Artificial IntelligenceTorontoFounded 2021superbar.ai ↗
53%of buyer journeys now cross AI before a purchase decision, per founder's TechTO talkTechTO Commerce Toronto 2026-01-21 ↗

The people

What they build

Superbar 2.0Full-screen vertical product feed for online stores, with product video and animation tools and behavioural-AI ranking for each shopperProduct page ↗
SuperbarEarlier product: AI sales assistant and answer bar that answers shopper questions on your website and guides them toward purchaseProduct page ↗
CaddieInbound automation that qualifies leads and books demos

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About

Superbar connects to a company's product catalog, blog, videos and reviews to deliver instant, high-converting answers trained to sell — a response to AI reshaping how shoppers research and buy. Founder Alan Nowogrodski argues brands must win the AI 'recommendation war' and keep customers on their own sites rather than losing them to agentic checkout, as he laid out at TechTO's Commerce Toronto event in January 2026. By October 2026 the company's site was leading with Superbar 2.0, a full-screen, scrolling product feed for online stores that ranks products for each shopper.

Backers

Y Combinator (Summer 2022 batch)

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Quick answers

What does Superbar do?

Its current product, Superbar 2.0, is a full-screen, scrolling product feed for online stores that uses behavioural AI to rank products for each shopper. Before that it built an AI sales assistant that answered shopper questions on a company's website.

Who founded Superbar?

Alan Nowogrodski, who previously led product at FreshBooks. He founded the company in 2021; it went through Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch.

Where is Superbar based?

Toronto, Canada.

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