DoorDash Cuts Grocery Reorder Latency from 16 to 2 Seconds with AI Agents

DoorDash cut grocery reorder latency from 16 to 2 seconds by precomputing recurring purchases with batch language models. The serving system matches those prepared items against the active product catalog. This approach separates heavy historical reasoning from live inventory lookups.

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