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SHOPIFY'S INTERNAL AI ADOPTION STRATEGY: UNLIMITED SPEND AND "MCP EVERYTHING"

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Shopify bought 3,000 Cursor licenses with unlimited token spending after getting legal teams to default to "yes" on AI tools, then built an internal LLM proxy with MCPs connecting every data source. Non-technical sales reps now build performance auditing tools in Cursor, while a sales engineer runs his entire workflow through a dashboard that pulls real-time context from Salesforce, Slack, and GSuite without opening those apps.