Beyond 101: Catalyst | Part 1 – Upgrade Retail Experiences using Catalyst Serverless + AI

In this session from the Beyond 101: Catalyst series, we walk you through how to combine Zoho Catalyst's serverless functions, QuickML LLM Serving, and AI capabilities to build smarter, more responsive retail applications — without worrying about infrastructure. What You'll Learn: * How to use Catalyst Serverless Functions (Advanced I/O & Job Functions) for backend logic * Deploying front-end apps using Catalyst Slate — including GitHub auto-deploy * Using Catalyst QuickML LLM Serving to integrate generative AI into your apps * Scheduling automated tasks with Catalyst Cron Jobs (Job Scheduling) * Storing and querying data using Catalyst Cloud Scale (Data Store) Real-World Use Cases Covered: 1. AI-Powered Review Summarization — Automatically summarize customer product reviews using an LLM and a Cron job that updates in real time 2. Sales Analytics & Marketing Suggestions — Feed sales report data to an LLM to generate actionable marketing campaign recommendations 3. SEO Alt-Text Generator — Use Catalyst's Vision Language Model to auto-generate SEO-optimized alt text for product images 📌 This is part 1 of the Beyond 101: Catalyst series, which builds on the foundation of Catalyst 101. If you're new to Catalyst, we recommend getting up to speed with the Catalyst 101 playlist first. CHAPTERS: 00:10 – Introduction 00:44 – Power of GenAI 01:17 – Harnessing LLMs for retail 03:54 – What is Contextual Intelligence (CI)? 04:31 – What is Serverless Computing? 05:11 – Catalyst platform features 07:08 – Demo: Review Aggregator App 09:08 – Slate – Front-end deployment service 11:04 – QuickML 12:32 – Job Scheduling 13:42 – Setting up the project 30:00 – Demo: Sales Analytics & Marketing Suggestions 32:47 – Demo: SEO Alt-Text Generator 37:16 – Zia – Context Intelligence Engine 40:32 – GenAI Actions 41:28 – Sentiment Analysis 43:52 – Smart Recommendations Resources: Catalyst 101 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlC7sQNISSUQqYzUz2flSG5niU_ylRw75 Catalyst Help Docs: https://catalyst.zoho.com/help For more such developer-centric events, visit: https://community.zoho.com/developer/events If you're not part of the Zoho Community, and would like to network with other Zoho developers across the globe and benefit from all that the community has to offer, visit our platform given below. Sign in using your existing Zoho credentials or create a new account through the Sign Up form. https://www.zohocommunity.com/zcs/group/developers-zoho-user-group/ Drop an email to developer(hyphen)community(at)zohocorp(dot)com for further information. 👇 SUBSCRIBE👇 ️ ♦️ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/zoho ️ ♦️ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoho-community/ ️ ♦️ Twitter - https://x.com/ZohoCommunity ️ ♦️ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ZohoCommunity 💬 Have questions or want to suggest a topic for the next Beyond 101 session? Drop them in the comments or post in the Zoho Developer Community!