Alokai Compass & Frontend Platform

Alokai, formerly Vue Storefront, is a Frontend as a Service provider for composable commerce. Its about page gives 2021 as the founding year and lists offices in San Francisco and Warsaw, Poland, with a remote team of more than 100 people; the open-source storefront project it grew from began in 2017.

The platform includes Storefront and Storefront UI, a Connect data layer linking backend, CMS and search, a Console and managed Cloud with a stated 99.9% SLA, and Commerce Intelligence. Compass, launched on 1 October 2025, is an AI storefront agent that recommends and compares products. Customers include MKM, SKYdeals and Brompton.

• Storefront and Storefront UI: composable storefront and component library.
• Connect: data layer linking commerce backend, CMS and search.
• Compass: AI storefront agent for search, product pages, cart and account.
• Commerce Intelligence: identifies storefront revenue leaks and suggests fixes.
• Console and Cloud: deployments, metrics and managed infrastructure.
• Integrations: SAP, Salesforce, commercetools, BigCommerce, Contentful, Magento and others.

• Vietnamese retail groups can build one storefront codebase serving several brands or country sites.
• B2B distributors can add an AI shopping assistant that supports reorders from past orders or CSV files.

• One frontend layer over any backend, CMS and search tool, so teams can replace backends without rebuilding the storefront.
• Vendor case studies report Brompton running one codebase across 11 stores and SKYdeals launching 4 storefronts.
• Compass adds AI-guided shopping for B2C and B2B journeys, including reorders.
• Merchant trust and transparency controls for the AI agent.

Enterprises are decoupling storefronts from monolithic commerce back ends and testing agentic shopping interfaces. Vietnamese retailers connecting several systems (ERP, marketplace, own site) increasingly need a unifying frontend layer.

Rebranded from Vue Storefront in 2024-03; reported nearly USD 40 million in funding and Y Combinator participation in 2021. Offices in San Francisco and Warsaw. Compass launched 2025-10-01.