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Prompt to Purchase: A Simulation Framework for LLM Product Recommendations
The widespread use of LLMs as trusted search tools and specifically, personalized product recommendation assistants, could bolster opportunities for advertising-based monetization. A key aspect of this effort is understanding factors that boost engagement on LLM interfaces. This project creates a compact, analytics-driven framework to measure engagement drivers in LLM product recommendations. The framework’s scope looks beyond just product attributes and focuses on potential engagement interactions with user-product intent matching and product rankings.
This project uses synthetic but realistic data (queries, products, match events) to engineer features for intent-product matching success and output ranking. These features are tested for associations with engagement metrics like click-through rates (CTR) and time a user spends on a linked page (TS). SQL is used for feature and metric creation, R is used for statistical testing (t-tests, chi-square, ANOVA, logistic regression, etc.), and Tableau is used for visualization.
The results - though illustrative given synthetic, non-causal data and a small sample size (n=100) - are directionally consistent with expectations. Matched products show higher odds of clicks although rank effects are weaker and may depend on product-attribute context. The goal, of course, isn’t to estimate causal lift from mock data but it’s to demonstrate how a measurement framework can be used with real-world data to help LLM providers and product sellers boost engagement and scale revenue.
With quality data and the framework, proving that engagement responds to improved intent matching may directly result in rapid monetization for LLM platforms in the form of a search-like cost-per-click system. Sellers can focus on optimizing product-intent fit to earn higher rankings and boost conversion. Ethical guardrails like paid-organic separation, labeling, audits, etc. are key safeguards to preserve user trust and retention while monetizing product recommendations.
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