When a shopper asks ChatGPT, Shop, or Gemini to find a product like yours, the assistant searches Shopify's Global Catalog: a cross-merchant index of products. Your AI shopping rank is where you land in that index for a given buyer query. AgentReady tracks it so you can see whether you're in the results, where, and who you're up against. This page explains the surfaces on your catalog page.
The rank snapshot
Enter a buyer-intent query (for example "cordless drill" or "organic dog treats") and AgentReady checks the Global Catalog live: whether your store surfaces, at what position, how many results there are, and whether another seller on the same product undercuts your price. The instant snapshot is free on every plan, so you can sanity-check any query on demand.
Tracking queries over time
On Growth and up, you can track the queries that matter and watch your rank move over time. A snapshot tells you where you are right now; tracking tells you whether your work is paying off, which is the question that actually matters once you start fixing things. Rank in the Global Catalog moves as catalogs change, so a single check is a moment, not a trend.
Queries you should be tracking
If you only watch a handful of queries, you're probably blind to demand you could capture. AgentReady suggests buyer-intent queries derived from your own catalog (your product types and categories) that you aren't tracking yet, so you can widen coverage without guessing at what shoppers type.
Proof that a fix landed
Fixing a product's data only helps once the Global Catalog absorbs the change. AgentReady records how the catalog reads your products after you fix them, your absorption rate, and a before-and-after view as your legibility climbs. That's the proof behind a rank change, and the kind of record a scraper-based tool can't produce.
An honest note on what rank is
Rank is something we observe, not something we control or guarantee. It's a point-in-time reading of Shopify's Global Catalog: real, but a snapshot of what we saw when we last checked, not a promise of what an assistant returns this second. On your catalog page it sits in the "presence we observe" tier, deliberately kept separate from the catalog quality scores we measure from your own data. For the bigger picture of how the catalog finds and ranks products, see the Global Catalog guide.