How to use a recipe
- Browse the recipes by platform tab below.
- Click a recipe name to open its template page.
- The template shows the pre-built prompt, the generated plan, and the toolkit it uses.
- Click Use this recipe to fork it into a new app in your workspace.
- Edit any part of the prompt or plan to fit your specific store, schedule, or output channel.
- Deploy to sandbox, test, promote to production. Same flow as any other App Builder app, see Building an app.
Shopify recipes
Shopify recipes were among the most popular V1 Agent Hub agents and remain strong starters in App Builder.| Recipe | What it does | Underlying tools |
|---|---|---|
| AI Growth Advisor | Generates a weekly growth report covering revenue trends, conversion rate movement, top SKUs, and recommended optimisations. | Shopify orders, GA4 sessions, Ask Viq, Slack / email output |
| AI Growth Insights | A scheduled deep-dive insight digest with anomaly callouts and trend analysis. | Shopify orders, Vortex Mind reports, email |
| Discount Creator | Drafts a discount code, sets the rules, applies it to a product collection, and posts the result for review. | Shopify discounts API write, Slack approval gate |
| Image Agent | Optimises product images via AI editing (background swap, lifestyle scenes, holiday overlays), stages on a sandbox, promotes on approval. | Shopify products write, image AI tools, RollbackPro / Vortex Backup |
| KPI Agent | Posts a daily Shopify KPI summary (sales, orders, conversion, AOV) to a Slack channel. | Shopify orders, Slack |
| Nerve Centre Agent | Banner-image migration: takes an optimised faster-loading image, stages it, alerts the merchant, promotes on approval, supports rollback. | Shopify themes write, sandbox staging, RollbackPro |
| Pages SEO Agent | Audits Shopify content pages for SEO issues, generates fixes, applies on approval. | Shopify pages write, SEO audit tool |
| Product SEO Agent | Audits product titles, descriptions, alt text, generates SEO-improved drafts, applies on approval. | Shopify products write, SEO audit tool |
BigCommerce recipes
BigCommerce recipes mirror the Shopify set with some platform-specific additions for image compression and StagingPro migrations.| Recipe | What it does | Underlying tools |
|---|---|---|
| Image Compression Agent | Compresses oversized BigCommerce product and banner images, stages, promotes on approval. | BigCommerce CDN write, image compression tool |
| Image Optimisation Agent | Edits product images with AI (backgrounds, props, holiday overlays), stages, promotes, supports rollback. | BigCommerce products write, image AI tools, RollbackPro |
| KPI Agent | Posts a daily BigCommerce KPI summary to Slack or email. | BigCommerce orders, Slack |
| Product SEO Agent | Audits BC product SEO and applies improvements with approval gates. | BigCommerce products write, SEO audit tool |
| SEO Pages Agent | Audits BigCommerce CMS pages for SEO and applies fixes. | BigCommerce pages write, SEO audit tool |
| StagingPro Migration Agent | Coordinates a data migration between BigCommerce stores via StagingPro, tracks status, reports completion. | StagingPro migration API, status polling, Slack |
Adobe Commerce and Magento recipes
Adobe Commerce recipes focus on the SEO and image surface, with deeper hooks into the Magento extension and audit ecosystem via DryRunPro.| Recipe | What it does | Underlying tools |
|---|---|---|
| Image Optimisation Agent | Adobe-specific image optimisation flow with AI editing, staging via DryRunPro, promotion on approval. | Magento products write, DryRunPro staging, image AI tools |
| Pages SEO Agent | Audits Magento CMS pages for SEO and applies improvements with approval gates. | Magento pages write, SEO audit tool |
| Product SEO Agent | Audits Magento product SEO (titles, descriptions, meta, alt text) and drafts improvements. | Magento products write, SEO audit tool |
Cross-platform recipes
These recipes are not bound to a single storefront and run across whichever connectors the merchant has authenticated.| Recipe | What it does | Underlying tools |
|---|---|---|
| Ask Viq Agent | A conversational front-door agent that routes the merchant’s question to the right specialist sub-agent. The orchestrator pattern. | Ask Viq, sub-agent registry, web search |
| Artifact Multimodal Agent | Generates marketing artefacts (images, copy, social posts) from a brief, stages for review, publishes. | Image AI, copy AI, multi-channel publish |
| Brand DNA Agent | Maintains a brand voice and style document used as context by every other content-generating agent in the workspace. | Vortex Memory write, brand DNA store |
| Campaign Manager (Dotdigital) | Drafts an email campaign, picks the segment, schedules the send, reports performance. | Dotdigital write, segment selection, performance read |
| Competitor Agent | Tracks competitor pricing, stock, and promotions, posts a weekly digest of changes. | Web scrape, Vortex Memory diff, Slack |
| Connector Agent | Discovers API credential requirements for new platforms, generates a validation payload, helps the merchant connect a new source. | Documentation crawler, RAG agent, validator |
| Email Sender (Dotdigital) | A simple transactional email sender used as a step in larger workflows. | Dotdigital transactional API |
| Google Ads Performance Agent | Analyses Google Ads spend, identifies waste, recommends bid changes, supports approval-gated execution. | Google Ads read, Vortex Mind ads report, Google Ads write (with approval) |
| Google Analytics Insights | Daily or weekly GA4 insight digest with anomaly callouts. | GA4 read, anomaly detection, Slack / email |
| Page Speed and Web Vitals Agent | Monitors Core Web Vitals across the storefront, opens tickets on regressions, links to the offending pages. | PageSpeed Insights / CrUX read, Jira write, Slack |
| Seasonal Events Agent | Surfaces upcoming seasonal events (holidays, sales periods) and prompts the merchant to plan campaigns and stock. | Vortex Memory event calendar, Slack reminders |
Building your own from a recipe
Most merchants start from a recipe and tweak. Common edits:- Change the schedule. “Run weekly instead of daily.”
- Change the destination. “Post to a different Slack channel.”
- Change the platform. Take a Shopify recipe and reuse it for BigCommerce, the agent reassembles the read tools.
- Add a step. “Before posting, ask Ask Viq for the trend explanation and include it in the message.”
- Add an approval gate. “Send to me first for review before posting publicly.”
Frequently asked questions
Are these recipes free to use, or do they cost extra? Recipes are part of App Builder. Whatever your plan covers for App Builder runs covers running a forked recipe. There is no per-recipe charge. Will Vortex IQ add new recipes over time? Yes. The recipes library is a living catalogue. New recipes are added as common workflow patterns emerge from merchant builds. If you build something useful, you can submit it as a candidate recipe. Can I share my own custom apps as recipes inside my workspace? Yes. Any app you build can be marked as a workspace recipe, making it visible to other users in your workspace as a starter template they can fork. Do recipes work the same across plans? The recipe definitions are universal. The tools each recipe uses depend on which connectors are authenticated and which features your plan includes. A recipe that depends on a connector you have not authenticated will prompt you to connect it before deployment. Can a recipe call another recipe? Yes, via sub-agent composition. A parent recipe can delegate work to a child recipe (for example, the Brand DNA recipe is used as a context provider by content-generating recipes). The merchant does not need to wire this manually; the recipe declares its sub-agent dependencies. What if a recipe stops working because a platform changed its API? Vortex IQ maintains the underlying connector library. When a platform changes its API, the connector is updated and any recipe that uses it continues to work without merchant intervention. If a deeper change is required, the recipe is versioned and a migration prompt is shown the next time the merchant opens the app. Can I see which recipes other merchants use most? Aggregate usage data is not exposed individually for privacy reasons. The recipes most popular across the V1 Agent Hub were KPI Agent, Image Optimisation Agent, Pages SEO Agent, Product SEO Agent, and Google Ads Performance Agent, in roughly that order. App Builder will surface usage trends inside your own workspace as the catalogue grows.Cross-links
- Start a build from scratch on Building an app.
- Understand the agent flow that runs every recipe on How it works.
- See what tools the recipes draw from on Tools and integrations.
- Manage running recipes on Deployment and monitoring.
- See cross-Vortex-Apps decision guidance on Concepts: when to use what.