Total Commerce

Total Commerce

Design commerce experiences that fit into your customers' lives, turning every interaction into a shoppable moment.

The way people shop has evolved. Customers now look for brands that meet them in the moment. Rigid personas and archetypes no longer reflect the dynamic, individual ways people engage with your brand. At Empathy Lab, we help you navigate this shift.

 

Our total commerce approach blends technology, data, and creativity to create experiences that adapt to your customers’ unique journeys. From embedding products into inspiring content to seamless checkouts that follow customers across devices, we design journeys that stay connected at every step. Flexible delivery, transparent onboarding, and real-time insights make your brand feel intuitive and responsive.

 

Our offers ensure your organization is ready for the fluidity of modern shopping habits – designed to meet customers where they are and deliver when it matters most.

Shopping today is more diverse than ever, split between intentional buys and spontaneous, ambient purchasing. Meanwhile, high value, experiential products now demand one kind of journey, and everyday essentials call for another. This shift creates complexity – but also new opportunities. 

 

Within this space, at each intersection, there are chances to enhance exploration and purchasing through agentic assistance or even action. 

 

Smart, contextual, and on-brand AI agents can surface the right offers and provide tailored guidance, matched with a precise understanding of your customers’ intent, preferences, and budget. These agents elevate the shopping experience, making every interaction seamless and relevant.

 

Empathy Lab will help you spot these opportunities and bring them to fruition. We design, build, and deploy intelligent agents that fit seamlessly into your commerce environments. These agents guide behavior and unlock valuable data and content – both internal and external – to drive results at scale.

Your products and services live at the core of your value proposition. To connect with customers, they must be able to adapt to shifting mindsets. From consideration, to choice, to consumption – all while standing out across digital, physical, and social spaces. 

 

In today’s blended world of content and commerce, your catalog needs to shine.  Rich, contextual experiences, with clear details on origin, pricing, logistics, and lifecycle bring the story of your products to life. Adapting to meet the place, moment, needs, and mindset of your consumers.

 

Next-gen product experience management unifies yours and partners’ product data, assets, and content at scale. Improving consistency, relevance, and brand perception while offering insights into performance. 

 

We help you create integrated, intelligent value chains that connect your enterprise, marketing, and consumer product data. With powerful generative and analytical tools, we enhance your content distribution and track its performance across every touchpoint.

Your digital commerce stack expresses more than technology – it’s a reflection of your business and your competitive edge. But in a highly commoditized space, standing out requires more than functionality. Creativity becomes essential to expressing your brand’s values, and to meeting your customers’ emotional and practical needs in both familiar and emerging spaces. The closer you are to your customers, the more you need to take control of those interactions.

 

Today, digital platforms are judged on their ability to adapt quickly. No longer are you able to hide behind fragmented digital enablement, organizational misalignment or sluggish decision-making. Instead, you’re increasingly benchmarked against top-performing adaptors, across industries. 

 

At Empathy Lab, we work with you to design, build, and run adaptive digital shopping environments that embody your brand and shine a light on your competitive strengths. With modern systems that capture and activate customer insights, we create real-time, context-aware shopping experiences, right where your customers are.

For your customers, the real excitement starts after the purchase. Meeting and exceeding their expectations matters. Fulfilment has moved beyond just being about availability or cost – it’s all about convenience now. By bringing delivery and experience management together, you can create something that genuinely sets you apart.

 

Building loyalty starts with extending your brand experience through reliable, transparent, and flexible fulfilment. Streamlining your delivery, returns, and post-purchase processes can also uncover hidden efficiencies.

 

We help you go beyond the box by refining your delivery and onboarding experiences, improving capacity and flexibility, and supporting transitions to subscription-based models. With personalized post-purchase solutions tailored to your customers’ convenience, we can drive significant bottom-line impact for your brand.

E-commerce continues to generate an ever-expanding array of data. Every single product impression, customer interaction, inventory change, parcel update, and service conversation creates powerful information.

 

But the speed and volume of this data often leads to data silos across your business. Bringing it all together into actionable, unified, reliable, and real-time data is key to shaping new levels of customer engagement, to adapting your offering, and driving operational efficiency. Unlocking data-driven growth strategies.

 

Empathy Lab can help you design and build a solid data architecture across your entire value chain. We focus on capturing and managing zero- and first-party data to bring personalized decision making, in real time, to your customer interactions. By understanding your customers' needs and continuously optimizing your offerings, we drive performance and efficiency through smart data-driven automation. 

Rapid Activation of Composable E-commerce (RACE) 

 

RACE is a fast-track solution for enterprise businesses looking to sell directly to consumers. Built by EPAM on the commercetools platform, it delivers a new e-commerce channel for your business in as little as eight weeks. Getting you to market quickly, without compromising on quality and future flexibility. 

B2B Commerce Booster

 

Designed to accelerate B2B revenue growth, our solution builds on commercetools’ powerful B2B capabilities, enhancing and extending them to fit seamlessly with your existing strategy. The result is greater agility, better functionality, and a smoother path to revenue. 

Paul McCormick
Head of Digital Business, London

Paul is a strategy consultant with a 20-year track record in digital and data transformations across sectors.

Volha Dashkevich
VP, Digital Solutions Consulting - EMEA, London

Eighteen years in IT, helping clients design differentiating digital technology solutions and transformation programs of any scale.

Kim Tielen
Manager in Digital, Amsterdam

Kim is a seasoned e-business specialist in the digital industry with expertise in program management, delivery management, project management and account management. Throughout her career, she has consistently demonstrated her ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and build meaningful relationships. With a sharp eye for detail and a commitment to precision, she always seeks out lasting solutions and maintains a solid, controlled approach to her work. Whether she's working independently or as part of a team, she always strives to be reliable, sharp, and smiling.

Rob Hoekman
Creative Digital Technologist, Director of Experience Consulting, Amsterdam

Rob has worked in digital technology for over 20 years. He uses his strong engineering and design background to shape adaptive digital architectures for clients in consumer packed goods & retail that unlock avenues for growth. Jazzed about the convergence of real-time data, immersive experiences and compelling services powering the platforms of the future, he’s keen to paint and pave the paths that make these real. Outside of work, he attempts electronic side-projects, and writes about AI/ML & gen AI in relation to art history and creativity.

Nicolas Borgis
Digital Engagement Head, Paris

Nicolas leads digital transformation and strategy at EPAM France, specializing in data governance and emerging technologies.

Ksenia Sartori
Digital Engagement Consultant, Amsterdam

Ksenia Sartori is a results-driven brand marketer with 15 years of experience translating consumer insights into growth and impactful brand experiences.

Alexey Kozhemiakin
Technologist, Amsterdam

Alexey connects data, AI, and commerce to create smarter, scalable systems that shape the future of digital experiences.

Geoffrey Parsons
Senior Director, Retail & Consumer Experience Consulting, Amsterdam

Geoffrey drives value through omnichannel strategies, e-commerce transformation, and innovation, delivering tangible impact in retail and consumer goods.

Alex van Gestel
Vice President & Head of Consumer Products, London

Alex van Gestel is a global marketer and digital business leader with over 25 years experience fueling strategic growth, tech transformation and creative innovation. 

 

As VP and Head of Consumer Products at EPAM, he guides commercial operations, industry consulting, business transformation and digital product delivery across EMEA. His expertise spans marketing, media, commerce, data and AI, and he’s built high-performing teams within client organisations as well as top agencies and consultancies. 

 

Focused on expanding and deepening capabilities across UX/UI, digital media, loyalty, GenAI and Web3, Alex helps consumer brands navigate an ever-evolving digital landscape, turning insights into strategic participation platforms that truly resonate.

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