Understand, organize and simplify: my journey with Shopee and artificial intelligence.

Since then, I've discovered a world of tools, rules and information that isn't always easy to make sense of.

While learning to run my Shopee store, I was also developing a system to organize my 3D printing studio.

Over time, I started connecting those two worlds.

Now artificial intelligence is part of the story too.

I want to share how all of this is evolving, what I've managed to build so far and what still lies ahead.

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CHAPTER 01 · OCTOBER 2026

Knowing an order had arrived wasn't enough.

Today, when I open the system I'm building, I can find information from my Shopee store.

Orders, products, ads and promotions are already part of that work.

I also have AI agents that help me look up information and better understand what's happening.

That's meaningful progress.

But to explain why I started building all of this, I need to go back a little.

October 2025: where do I begin?

When I started selling on Shopee, one of the first challenges was getting orders in the first place.

I researched ideas, developed products, took photos and prepared the listings.

But I soon discovered that listing a product was only the beginning.

The platform offered paid advertising, discounts, vouchers, campaigns and many other possibilities.

There were also fees, shipping deadlines and rules I needed to follow to avoid penalties.

And every tool seemed to raise a new question.

What did all those numbers actually mean?

That's how I came across Shopee Ads, paid ads designed to show products to more people.

Then came ROAS, a metric comparing advertising spend with sales attributed to those ads.

But how could I tell whether an ad was really worthwhile?

And if I joined a discounted promotion, how much would be left after platform fees and the cost of making the product?

I had to understand all of that while still running the studio.

Because for me, every order also meant manufacturing a part, managing the print, checking quality, packing it and shipping it on time.

It wasn't just about learning to sell. It was about managing all those things at once.

What if the system could help me?

I was already developing a system to organize products, materials, printers, production and other studio activities.

Shopee brought a new set of challenges into that project.

I wanted to follow orders without having to check so many separate sources of information.

One simple question showed how complicated things could get: when a promotion looked appealing, I still needed to check the discount, fees, manufacturing cost and shipping deadline before deciding. Looking at the offer on the dashboard alone couldn't tell me how much would actually be left. That's when bringing those details together in the system began to make sense.

I wanted to connect the products I sold with the things I actually made.

I also wanted to better understand ads, discounts, costs and results.

There was one obstacle, though: I had to find a way to connect my own store to the system.

I researched the integration options and found information about permissions and access restrictions.

Once I'd found a way to integrate my operation, I started building that connection.

Real orders came first.

Then the work expanded to products, inventory, ads and promotions.

Every new piece of information I managed to bring in revealed something else I needed to organize or understand.

Bringing an order into the system, for example, is different from understanding the work it creates at the print bench. Sales information needs to make sense alongside the product, inventory and production. That connection is still evolving, but it's more useful to me than simply recreating Shopee's screens.

And then artificial intelligence became part of the story.

As more information came together, I began exploring how AI could take part in the work.

Today I have AI agents with different roles. They can consult available store data, help with analysis and suggest possible actions.

Some features are still in development, some information needs verification and there are results I want to evaluate more carefully.

My store isn't performing at the level I'd like yet, but I now have far more knowledge and tools to keep improving.

And that's what makes the project interesting to me.

I don't just want to move Shopee information onto another screen. I want to understand it better and simplify the work I have to do every day.

I don't know yet how far I'll get.

But I already have a story of experiments, discoveries, difficulties and solutions built along the way.

And it's still unfolding.

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THE STORY CONTINUES...