AgentReady · Catalog
Win Shopify’s AI buy box
AI assistants answer shopping questions from Shopify’s Global Catalog and recommend the seller with the cleanest product data. AgentReady confirms you’re eligible, tracks your rank and prices, fixes your catalog data, then proves the lift as the Catalog absorbs it.
~2× conversion for Catalog-powered AI search vs. scraped data (Shopify).
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’ll 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.
Want the requirements themselves? The Shopify Catalog eligibility checklist walks through each one.
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 fixes move the needle instead of hoping they did. How the rank check works.
Buy-box price watch
Catch the undercut while it’s new
On a shared listing, price 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’re fighting for. When a competitor starts undercutting you, the alert cites the recorded streak, evidence, never a guess.
The confirm → track → fix → prove loop
Scoring tells you where you stand. The Catalog capability moves you, and shows the movement.
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. The verdict is honest by construction: found in the catalog comes only from live probe evidence, and 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.
Prove the lift
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.
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 on Signal.
The proof nobody else can show you
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, because it’s measured inside your store, fix by fix. That per-merchant lift history is the evidence that you moved, and the qualification for Shopify’s agentic-referral economics as they open up.
Frequently asked
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 winning the buy box.
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 decide whether I win it?
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 the lever that moves whether you appear and get recommended.
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 Catalog Readiness Index scores your store from public data, and the free live rank probe shows where you surface today. The paid app closes the loop: it tracks rank and prices nightly, fixes the gaps in your admin with your confirmation, then verifies the Global Catalog absorbed each fix and charts the lift over time. Scoring is the wedge; fixing and proving 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.