Pyfoi for retailers, dealers, and manufacturers

Buying a car or an appliance? Start here

AI answers in seconds. Buyers still spend hours deciding. Almost none of it happens with you.

Pyfoi builds the content and tools that answer every question in your category, and delivers it via our patent pending decision interface, putting them in control of their specific priorities. The buyer gets a better experience, keeping them on your site, building trust in your brand. You get first-party data on how and why they decided.

The decision doesn't happen with you02:55

The answer arrives before the buyer knows their questions

A buyer asks. AI answers in seconds. They keep researching anyway.

Because when they start, they did not yet know everything that mattered, let alone what they would give up to get it. So the deciding still takes four and a half hours, more in some categories, spread across weeks.

Now open your own analytics and look at average session duration. It is probably under two minutes.

46% of AI users now start product research with AI rather than search, against 24% who start with search. L.E.K. Consulting, Apr 2026, n=2,650.

Run your own numbers

A typical major purchase, spread over weeks. Vehicles run closer to seven hours online.

Your share of the decision0.69%The rest happens where you cannot see it, answer it, or learn from it.

More time is not the fix. AI-referred visits last 48% longer and convert 23% worse. Adobe, Mar 2026.

Start of the decisionPurchase

One cell is about one minute of decidingEverywhere that is not you 99.31%Your site 1m 50s

What Pyfoi does Patent pending

Become the trusted place buyers spend the most time, and come back to finish.

Five things the buyer has to do before they will decide, all on your site. They do not move through them in a straight line, they spiral: learning turns up something they had never heard of and their priorities quietly re-rank.

Pyfoi is built to help the way buyers really decide, not a one-shot response or a linear wizard.

01 / Learn

Everything that matters

Every parameter, insight, cost, drawback and comparison in the category, refreshed as internal data and external sources change.

02 / Prioritise

In their own order

Not a checklist and not a chatbot. They construct their personal peferences while they work, which is how people actually decide.

03 / Trade off

Where priorities collide

Maximum range and lowest price cannot both win. What they hold and what they concede is the truest signal of priority there is.

04 / Find

Ranked on their priorities

Your range, scored against what this buyer said mattered, every attribute visible. The ranking moves because they moved it.

05 / Compare

Head to head, on their terms

The shortlist side by side on the parameters they ranked, not on a spec sheet. What they put you up against is the last signal before they commit.

The content engine

We research the whole category. Then buyers show us what we missed.

We start where everyone else stops. Before anything gets written we take the category apart and work out what actually decides a purchase in it. Then we answer all of it, in whatever form the buyer wants: articles, comparisons, infographics, calculators, video, podcasts, served at the point in the decision where each one is needed rather than filed in a resource library.

What we dig into, before a word is written.

Every parameter

The full set of things that decide a purchase in this category, not the handful your product page happens to list.

The trade-offs

Where two things a buyer wants cannot both win. This is where decisions stall, and where category content usually has nothing to say.

What it costs to own

Running costs, servicing, consumables, resale. Said plainly, including the parts the category prefers to leave out.

Problems and drawbacks

Written honestly. The buyer will find them anyway, and finding them with you is worth more than finding them somewhere else.

Comparisons

Head to head on the parameters that decide it, including the comparisons that do not flatter anyone.

Reviews

Synthesised across sources with the reasoning shown, rather than an aggregate score with nothing behind it.

What best means, each way

Best gets defined differently by nearly every buyer. We cover each definition rather than publish one ranking and hope it fits.

The questions they cannot ask yet

Eight distinct types of consumer insight, including the ones a buyer had no way of knowing to look for. This is where most category content stops short.

Independent first. Then answered in your voice.

01 / The independent answer

Genuinely indpendent as nobody is paying to influence it

Because that is the only version a buyer will believe. Where the honest answer is that something else wins on the thing this buyer has prioritised, it says so. Content that flatters the person paying for it is the fastest way to lose the trust the rest of this depends on.

02 / Your response

Then we help you answer every piece, in your brand voice

Your position, your evidence, your products, on every piece we publish. It is built out in full - its own article, imagery and video - and carried alongside the independent one rather than edited into it, disclosed as yours. The buyer gets both and can see which is which.

Your voice is worth more standing next to an honest answer than it is on its own.

Who would you need to hire to do this yourself?

  • Researchers to uncover the questions buyers actually ask, and the honest answers.
  • Writers to turn that into hundreds of pieces a buyer will trust.
  • Designers for infographics, comparison visuals and social.
  • Videographers for reviews, comparisons and explainers.
  • Audio producers to record, edit and distribute at cadence.
  • Tool builders for calculators, configurators and decision tools.
  • Search and AI-answer specialists to make it discoverable in both.
  • Data analysts to feed the signal back into what gets made next.

Your team could build content and an interface. But nobody else is going to map every question in your category, answer it, and keep it current.

The category moves. The content moves with it.

Most content programmes are a project: research it once, publish, let it age, survey it again next year. This one runs as a loop, because the decisions are happening on your site and we can see where buyers get stuck.

01 / Signal

Real decisions, at volume

Every priority, trade-off, comparison and hesitation, including the buyers who left without deciding and the point at which they left.

02 / Gap

What nothing answers well

A question being asked that has no good answer anywhere. An objection stalling the same buyers twice. A parameter that has quietly started deciding purchases.

03 / Research

Answered in weeks

We go and find out, and the article, the comparison and the tool that answer it are live in weeks. Not in next year's survey.

Every decision after that sharpens what gets researched next

Nothing else in your stack can start this loop, because the signal only exists where the deciding happens.

Pyfoi's decision interface puts the buyer in control

The ranking moves because they moved it.

A buyer drags a priority up, and the whole content & product ranking recomputes in front of them. This is the moment they stop browsing and start deciding.

Recorded from the interface. In production the range, the attributes and the scoring inputs are yours, and every score is traceable to a source the buyer can open. Real parameter sets run to twenty or thirty.

However they finish

They buy online already informed, or walk in knowing exactly what is left to decide.

Some buyers finish the purchase online, informed enough to commit without a conversation. The rest save the decision and take it with them: what they prioritised, what they ruled out and why, and what they still want to see. On their phone, or printed for your floor staff. Nobody re-asks a question the buyer already answered.

Three quarters of major appliance purchases still complete in store. OpenBrand / TraQline, Q1 2026, US category data.

The compounding advantage flywheel

TRUST = DATA

Independent reasoning earns the visit. The interface captures the reasoning as it happens. That produces first-party decision data no scraper has and no model already holds, which sharpens what gets built next, which earns the next visit.

Honest answers earn the visitThey decide with you rather than somewhere elseYou own the reasoning behind itThe next buyer gets a sharper answer

and arrives trusting it sooner, which is where this started

Every decision sharpens the next one. Trust compounds, the data compounds, and the advantage compounds with them. Once everyone has the same AI, the only thing left that is yours is what your buyers told you, and nobody catches that up by spending more.

What the loop leaves behind, that nothing else in your stack holds.

CRM · intent · analytics

A name, an email, and some page views.

Buyer priorities
Trade-offs made
Where they hesitated
Why the ones who left, left
Pyfoi · proprietary to you

Every priority, trade-off and hesitation.

Buyer priorities
Safety · Warranty · Range
Trade-offs made
Price down for safety up
Where they hesitated
Resale at five years
Why the ones who left, left
Battery warranty, twice

Illustrative record. Yours to own, consented, and it compounds.

Your data is yours. Consent sits with you. We do not market to your buyers and we do not share their data with anyone else. What improves across the platform is pattern-level only.

See it built for your brand.

We build a free buyer decision prototype for your brand, and then we walk you through it. No cost, no commitment.