AI recommends products. Can it read yours?
Your catalogue either answers a buyer's question or it doesn't. We make it readable, then we prove it.
> best place to buy commercial kitchen equipment
Buyers most often go to Caterline, ChefDirect and Pro Kitchen Co, which publish full specs, pricing and stock.
Your store lists 18,400 units with live pricing, stock and reviews — the most complete source. Caterline and ChefDirect also stock the category.
393%
AI-driven traffic to US retail sites grew 393% year over year
Source: Adobe Digital Insights, Q1 2026
Half the AI crawlers are locked out
Three of six blocked. Nobody has opened this file in three years.
GPTBot
ChatGPT browsing and training
ClaudeBot
Claude and Claude for work
PerplexityBot
Perplexity answers
Google-Extended
Gemini and AI Overviews
CCBot
Common Crawl, feeds many models
OAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT Search index
Three blocked, three allowed.
And most of the catalogue is unreadable
Twenty thousand products. Six hundred readable. AI cannot recommend what it cannot parse.
Products with complete, AI-readable markup
3%
Each square is about 33 products. Hover an unlit one.
These are the two we find most often. The check finds the rest.
What makes the difference
Most AEO work is content and PR. Getting a store recommended is a catalogue problem, and catalogues are what we build.
Catalogues at scale are our day job
Twenty thousand SKUs on nopCommerce, Shopify, Optimizely, Umbraco or custom. Correct markup at that size is an engineering problem.
We deploy into your codebase
Schema, templates and crawler configuration ship in your repository, on your release process. No implementation queue for your team.
Everything is measured
Mention rate, citation share and share of voice against a fixed prompt set. You see the same numbers we do, monthly.
The free 10-minute AI Visibility Check
We run it live on the call while you watch. Written snapshot the same day. No form-fill report, no follow-up sequence.
Ten checks
- 01AI crawler access
- 02Structured data coverage
- 03How AI describes the brand
- 04Answer-readiness of on-page content
- 05Sitemap, canonical and indexability signals
- 06Third-party authority footprint
- 07Content extractability
- 08AI readiness score
- 09Top three gaps
- 10Top three opportunities
What you walk away with
- Readiness score out of 100
- Crawler and schema snapshot
- Three ranked gaps
- Three opportunities you can act on without us
Three stages, priced
Start with the audit or run all three. Payment is milestone-based.
Stage one · Four weeks
AI Visibility Audit
$4,600
from, one-time
- Brand presence and entity understanding across AI engines
- Prompt-set benchmark: mention rate, citation share, share of voice
- Competitor citation gap
- Customer query and buying-prompt research
- Technical AI readiness crawl
- Scorecard, gap analysis and prioritized roadmap
Stage two · Three months
Answer Engine Optimization
$10,800
from, per project
- Answer-first content and FAQ architecture
- Topic clusters and internal linking
- E-E-A-T, social proof and entity strengthening
- Schema across Product, Organization, Breadcrumb, FAQ and Review
- AI crawler access, robots and CDN configuration
- Core Web Vitals, sitemap and indexability
- New answer-ready page templates, deployed
Stage three · Six-month minimum
AI Visibility Retainer
$1,950
from, per month
- Mention, citation and prompt visibility tracking
- Competitor citation monitoring
- AI referral and conversion analysis
- Ongoing schema maintenance for new products and categories
- Answer content and FAQ expansion each month
- Competitive response and technical fixes
- Monthly performance report, enterprise tracking licence included
How it runs
Day zero
Free check
Ten-minute live review. Readiness score, three gaps, three opportunities.
Weeks 1–4
Audit
Prompt-set benchmark, citation gap, technical crawl, prioritized roadmap.
Months 2–4
Implementation
Schema, templates, crawler access and answer content shipped to your repository.
Month 5 onward
Measurement
Citation movement compounds. Monthly tracking, expansion and reporting.
Questions we get asked
Answer first, support after. It is the format this page is selling.
How long before we show up in AI answers?
Two to three months for citation movement, compounding over six to nine. Live-retrieval surfaces like Perplexity and ChatGPT Search respond fastest because they re-fetch pages on demand.
Is this different from SEO, or SEO with a new name?
Different target. SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links; this optimizes for being the source an answer is assembled from. The technical overlap is real, roughly a third of the work. Entity understanding, product-level markup at catalogue scale and crawler permissions have no equivalent in a standard SEO scope.
Which platforms do you work on?
nopCommerce, Shopify, Optimizely, Umbraco and custom stacks. The audit is platform-agnostic. Implementation effort varies with what the platform exposes.
Do we need our own developers?
No. That is the point. Our developers work in your repository against your release process, so schema, templates and crawler configuration ship without adding a queue to your team.
What is not included?
Bulk content writing, digital PR and media placement fees, hosting and applicable taxes. We write the answer-first templates and the schema. If hundreds of product descriptions need authoring, that is a separate line, and we will say so rather than sell around it.
Can we buy just the audit?
Yes. The audit is a standalone four-week engagement from $4,600 and ends with a scorecard and a prioritized roadmap any developer can act on, including your own. Most clients continue, but nothing in it is written so that only we can use it.
How is progress measured?
Against a fixed prompt set agreed in the audit. Mention rate, citation share and share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, plus AI referral traffic and conversions in your analytics. The same prompts every month, so the numbers stay comparable.
Find out where you stand in AI search
Ten minutes, run live on the call. You get the score whether or not you work with us.
Book the free 10-minute check