VibeDM Brings Agentic Shopping and Viral Virtual Try-On Features to Instagram DMs for the First Time
VibeDM, an agentic commerce startup, today announced the launch of the first agentic shopping experience for Instagram DMs. Brands can now offer customers AI-powered chat engagement, virtual try-ons and one-click checkout, all without leaving the Instagram app. Shoppers can see how an outfit or jewelry looks on them, scan their face to preview beauty products or picture new bedding in their own room. Prospective customers go from hello to paid in five messages, and each step is a message they already know how to answer.
Co-founded in 2026 by serial entrepreneurs Michael Tesselaar and Maurice Stam, VibeDM enters the market at an opportune time, as brands already feature their biggest moments, campaigns and drops on Instagram to keep users engaged. Tesselaar and Stam are also founders of Vibeday, an award-winning AI marketing agency that runs personalized AI marketing campaigns at scale directly inside Instagram DMs for international brands, including Samsung and Tony’s Chocolonely. Proprietary data from Vibeday shows that 99% of users open every message a brand sends via Instagram DM.
“VibeDM turns the people already scrolling and engaging on Instagram directly into buyers, at a much higher conversion rate than sending them to a brand’s website,” said Michael Tesselaar, co-founder and CEO of VibeDM. “We built VibeDM on our parent company Vibeday’s proven one-on-one AI conversation engine, finally bringing virally engaging content and frictionless checkout to Instagram DMs.”
According to recent research from Statista Digital Market Insights, social commerce more than tripled its global revenue between 2020 and 2025, and is expected to reach an estimated $585.9 billion in 2026 and $928.65 billion by 2030. TikTok Shop alone reached $64 billion in global gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2025, according to a report by Momentum Works, demonstrating the commercial scale of in-app social checkout.
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How VibeDM Works
The VibeDM transaction flow is simple. A potential customer is prompted to DM the brand through an influencer campaign, an organic post or an ad click, which starts the DM flow. The brand shows its products in a carousel inside the DM chat. The customer picks a product and, depending on what they’re shopping for, sends a selfie, completes a quick face or body scan, or uploads a photo of their room. Within 15 seconds, they receive an AI-generated image of themselves wearing the product, of the product on their skin, or of the product in their home. They can then check out in the DM chat and receive their shipping track-and-trace details in the DM. VibeDM features include:
- Agentic DM shopping: Lets followers engage with the brand and its products directly in Instagram DMs, and receive order tracking right in the DM conversation.
- Virtual try-on for fashion, beauty, home, CPG products and more: Allows potential customers to snap a selfie or upload an image and, within 15 seconds, see a preview of what they would look like wearing the product, holding the product, or viewing the product in a room in their home.
- Checkout within the app, a market first on Instagram: Enables customers to check out without leaving the Instagram app, significantly reducing friction between engagement and sale.
- Easy integration: Brands can easily use a Shopify integration to use their own store’s checkout in the DMs, use an integration via VibeDM’s partner ChannelEngine, or opt for a custom CRM integration, with payments powered by Adyen.
“The hardest part of commerce in DMs isn’t the conversation; it’s connecting that conversation to inventory, sizing, payments and shipping in real time,” added Maurice Stam, co-founder and CTO of VibeDM. “VibeDM sits between Instagram and the brand’s commerce stack, whether that’s Shopify, ChannelEngine or a custom CRM. There’s nothing for customers to install and nothing for brands to develop or build.”
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VibeDM launch customers include: Eliou (a Miami-based, independent jewelry and apparel brand favored by Harry Styles), Cabau Lifestyle (a health, nutrition and wellness company focused primarily on women), OGÉR (a high-end fashion retailer specializing in luxury men’s clothing), Stieglitz (a women’s fashion brand), Eave Cosmetics (a luxury skincare company), SJUMO (a premium bedding and sleep lifestyle company), Malelions (a fashion and lifestyle brand specializing in premium streetwear, sportswear and casual clothing) and Croyez (a premium streetwear and lifestyle fashion brand).
“At Eliou, we are always looking for unique and personalized ways to interact with our followers. VibeDM’s engaging, agentic conversations paired with the ability to finally accept payments without rerouting the customer is leveling up how we do business on Instagram,” said Eliou co-founder Christy Mantilla.
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