AgentReady · Catalog · Schema for AICompete for Shopify’s AI buy box
AI assistants answer shopping questions from Shopify's Global Catalog and often recommend the seller with the cleanest product data. AgentReady confirms you're eligible, tracks your rank and prices, helps you fix catalog gaps, then re-checks as the Catalog absorbs changes. The buy box is the goal; rank is not guaranteed.
~2× conversion for Catalog-powered AI search vs. scraped data (Shopify). Also try the free catalog readiness check, or start free when you are ready.
See your result
What catalog monitoring shows after a check
The free store checker flags schema and discovery gaps that feed catalog quality. Once you connect, AgentReady shows eligibility, rank by query, and competitor price history like the mockup in the hero.
The gap
Scoring tells you where you stand; clean catalog data is the lever
AI assistants shop Shopify's Global Catalog. Incomplete titles, missing categories, and thin descriptions make you harder to normalize and recommend. Here is how AgentReady confirms you're in it, tracks where you rank, and re-checks after you fix.
Step zero
First, a straight answer: are you in the catalog?
Shopify includes stores automatically when its documented requirements hold, and no API reports the result. AgentReady audits every requirement it can actually verify and probes the real catalog for proof. You will see found in the catalog only when the live probe found you, checks pass, not yet confirmed live when everything passes without probe evidence, and a plain cannot verify on the things no app can see. No wishful green checkmarks. The Shopify Catalog eligibility checklist walks through each requirement.
- Store-level and product-level inclusion checks from your real data
- The “in the catalog” claim comes only from live probe evidence
- Requirements nobody can check are labeled honestly, never guessed
Rank, tracked nightly
Know where you stand, query by query
A free live probe checks the real catalog for up to five buyer-intent queries written by AI from your own products, before you pick a plan. Track the queries that matter and a nightly sweep charts your rank over time, so you can see whether fixes moved anything instead of hoping they did. How the rank check works.
- A live rank probe against the real catalog, free, no plan required
- Up to 5 buyer-intent queries generated from your own catalog
- Nightly tracked-query sweeps chart your rank movement over time
Buy-box price watch
Catch the undercut while it's new
On a shared listing, price often decides who gets picked. Every tracked query records your offer against the cheapest competitor's daily, building the price history behind the buy box you are competing for. When a competitor starts undercutting you, the alert cites the recorded streak, evidence, never a guess.
- Daily competitor price history per tracked query
- Undercut alerts backed by the recorded streak, not inference
- A price trend you can act on before it costs you the sale
The loop
Confirm → track → fix → re-check
Confirm you're in
The eligibility auditor recomputes Shopify's documented inclusion requirements from your real store data, store-level and product-level, and pairs them with a live probe of the actual catalog. Found in the catalog comes only from live probe evidence; anything no app can verify says so instead of guessing.
Track your rank and price
A free live probe checks where you surface for up to five buyer-intent queries AI writes from your own catalog. Track the ones that matter and a nightly sweep records your rank, your offer, and the cheapest competitor's price, so an undercut shows up as evidence, not a feeling.
Fix with one click
AgentReady drafts the fix for each gap: a clearer title, a fuller description, and a category resolved to a real entry in Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy, never a guessed string. You confirm each apply, one field at a time, with one-click undo. Never a blind bulk write.
Re-check absorption
After a fix, we re-query the Global Catalog to confirm Shopify absorbed it and chart your per-product before-and-after legibility as the catalog picks your changes up. Derived metrics only; we never cache or republish Catalog results. Rank movement is evidence on your store, not a guarantee you will be the chosen seller.
In your admin too
Ask Shopify Sidekick where you rank
AgentReady ships read-only tools into Shopify Sidekick, so “where do I rank in AI shopping?” and “is a competitor undercutting me?” get answers from your own tracked data, right inside the admin. See the Sidekick integration.
Proof on your store, not a marketing claim
Because catalog results can’t be cached, a scraper-based tool can’t build a before-and-after record of your catalog lift. AgentReady can, inside your store, fix by fix. That per-merchant history is evidence that something moved for you. We do not claim a cross-merchant win rate on this page.
Start Schema for AI
Schema for AI includes catalog eligibility, rank tracking, and confirm-first fixes. Paid entry is Core at $9/mo (billed through shopify). More commerce platforms are planned.
Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial, billed through the Shopify App Store.
Competing for the AI buy box, answered
- What is the Shopify AI buy box?
- When an AI shopping assistant answers a product question, it draws from Shopify's Global Catalog, a cross-merchant index, and surfaces the seller whose product data it can read and trust best. Being clustered onto the shared listing and chosen from it is the agentic-commerce equivalent of competing for the buy box. Clean data improves your odds; it does not guarantee the pick.
- How do I know if my store is in the Global Catalog at all?
- No Shopify API reports inclusion, so AgentReady recomputes the documented requirements (no password page, titles and images, prices above zero, US or Canada shipping, Online Store publication) from your real data and pairs them with a live probe of the actual catalog. You get one of three honest verdicts: found in the catalog, checks pass but not yet confirmed live, or cannot verify on requirements no app can see.
- Why does catalog data matter for recommendations?
- Shopify reports about 2× conversion for Catalog-powered AI search versus scraped data. The catalog is built from each store's product data, normalized and partly AI-inferred, and inference accuracy depends on the source. Clean, complete, identifier-rich product data is a lever that can move whether you appear and get recommended. It is not a promise you will win every query.
- What does the buy-box price watch actually show?
- For every query you track, a daily snapshot records your offer and the cheapest competitor's price on the shared listing. You get a price history per query and an alert when a competitor starts undercutting you, and the alert fires only when the recorded streak proves it started, never on inference.
- How is this different from the free checker?
- The free AI-readiness checker scores your storefront from public data. The Catalog Readiness Index and live rank probe go deeper on catalog signals. The paid app closes the loop: it tracks rank and prices nightly, fixes gaps in your admin with your confirmation, then verifies the Global Catalog absorbed each fix. Scoring is the wedge; fixing and re-checking is the engine.
- Will AgentReady change my products without my approval?
- No. Every fix is propose, confirm, apply, one field at a time, with one-click undo. Category fixes are resolved to a real Shopify taxonomy entry before anything is written, and when no confident match exists we say so instead of writing a wrong category. There is no blind or scheduled auto-write.
- Does my product data get stored or shared?
- Per Shopify's catalog usage rules, we never cache or store Global Catalog results or images. The absorption checks persist derived metrics only: booleans, counts, and scores, never your catalog content.
See where you stand, then improve the source
Check your store free first. When you are ready, start the loop that confirms you're in, tracks rank and prices, and re-checks after you fix.