Understand how your products appear in AI buying answers
For eligible commerce projects, connect a product or category to target-specific buyer prompts and inspect its recorded appearances. AI Shelf helps keep product identity, competitors and recommendation evidence together.
Inside Commerce Intelligence
| Target | Type | Buyer prompt |
|---|---|---|
| Trail pack | Product | Which daypacks suit a short hike? |
| Answer | Product appearance | Position evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Selected answer | Trail pack mentioned | Explicitly ordered: 2 |
| Another answer | Trail pack mentioned | Unordered: unavailable |
Eligible commerce project. Position is only reported where ordering is supported; these are not purchase observations.
Begin with a product or category you can identify
Review the catalog target and its website page. Check competitor candidates before approving them for measurement. A product and a category represent different buying contexts, so keep the selected target explicit.
Review buyer prompts before measuring
Prepare relevant product or category questions and approve the prompts you intend to use. Review available engines, repetitions and estimated cost before launching an audit. The run retains its catalog and competitor context.
Interpret visibility and shelf position carefully
Review Product Visibility and Share of Shelf in the measured answer set. Position metrics apply only where the evidence supports an explicit ordering. An unordered list or prose recommendation is not a reliable numbered ranking.
Investigate what the answer actually recommends
Read the supporting answer and distinguish product identity, merchant domain and citation URL. Compare the question with the product page's confirmed facts before preparing a proposed improvement.
Frequently asked questions
Does this track every shopping carousel in every consumer assistant?
No. The page describes product/category observations under CiteLadder's supported audit configuration, not exhaustive shopping-surface coverage.
Does this require or include native Shopify synchronization?
Do not assume a Shopify connection. The current catalog approach uses supported website evidence and CSV workflows; native Shopify synchronization is not being advertised.
Is Commerce available for every project?
No. Eligibility depends on the project's required capability evidence and access. Discuss your catalog and measurement needs in a demo.