Service · One-time, fixed fee
AI-commerce readiness audit: find out what AI agents can and can’t use
In short · updated
A one-time, fixed-fee audit for e-commerce brands. We check whether Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Shopping and Perplexity can crawl, index and trust your store, review your Merchant Center and ChatGPT feeds and UCP/ACP eligibility, and record a citation baseline. You get one prioritized fix list. From $2,500.
- Format
- One-time, fixed fee
- Timeline
- About 4 weeks
- Starting from
- $2,500
- Engines covered
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode
Who it’s for
A fit if
- You have a Merchant Center feed and organic revenue you can’t afford to lose.
- You plan to apply for ChatGPT Shopping or Google UCP checkout.
- Your developers and merchandisers need one ranked list, not a 200-page export.
Not a fit if
- You want implementation included. The audit diagnoses; your team or our feed retainer does the fixing.
- Your store hasn’t launched and has no indexed pages yet.
What you get
| Deliverable | What it covers | Format |
|---|---|---|
| AI crawler access | robots.txt plus CDN and WAF bot rules for Googlebot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User | Findings with exact rule changes |
| Indexation and snippet eligibility | Priority category and product templates, sitemaps, canonicals | Page-level issue list |
| Structured data vs. visible content | Product, Offer, Organization and breadcrumb markup checked against what shoppers actually see | Error list with fixes |
| Feed completeness | Merchant Center and ChatGPT feed fields: GTINs, images, variants, price, stock, return policy | Field-level gap report |
| UCP and ACP eligibility | native_commerce(checkout_eligibility), return and support policies, merchant program status | Eligibility checklist |
| Citation baseline | A prompt panel across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode | Baseline share of citations |
| Prioritized fix list | Every finding ranked by impact and effort, with a named owner | Spreadsheet and walkthrough call |
How it works
Week 1 · Access
Robots, CDN rules, sitemaps and indexation. We submit child sitemaps individually for cleaner diagnostics, as Brodie Clark recommends.
Week 2 · Data
Structured data against visible content, then the Merchant Center and ChatGPT feeds field by field.
Week 3 · Baseline
We agree a prompt panel with you, freeze it and run it across four engines.
Week 4 · Plan
Ranked fix list, walkthrough call and a clear recommendation on what, if anything, to do next.
Why it matters now
product images missing from a single store’s Merchant Center feed, found in one audit by Brodie Clark.
Source: Brodie Clark on X
of queries showed an AI Overview in a randomized field study, sitting above every organic result more than 87% of the time.
average sources cited per prompt by Perplexity, Google and ChatGPT. ChatGPT cites fewest but leans on each far more.
Source: arXiv 2604.25707
How we measure it
The citation baseline uses the same share-of-citations panel as our AI visibility reporting: a fixed prompt set, run repeatedly per engine, reported as a share with the run count shown. Technical findings are checked against Google’s own list of inputs for AI features: crawl access, text content, internal links, page experience, structured data that matches the page, and current Merchant Center data (Google).
Price
From $2,500Typical range $2,500–$7,500
What moves the price: catalog size and number of feeds, number of storefronts or countries, platform complexity (headless builds, multiple domains) and the size of the prompt panel.
Draft pricing: starting points, confirmed in a written quote after the mini-audit.
Questions about the ai-commerce readiness audit
What is an AI-commerce readiness audit?
A fixed-fee review of whether AI search and shopping agents can crawl, index, understand and buy from your store. It covers technical SEO, structured data, Merchant Center and ChatGPT feeds, UCP/ACP eligibility and a baseline of how often AI engines cite you today.
How is it different from a technical SEO audit?
It includes one, because Google says a page must be indexed and snippet-eligible to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode. It adds what a standard audit skips: AI crawler rules at the CDN, product feed completeness, agentic checkout eligibility and a citation baseline.
Do we need special schema or an llms.txt file?
No. Google says there is no special schema and no AI text file needed for its AI features. We check that the structured data you already have is valid and matches what shoppers see on the page.
What access do you need?
Read access to Google Search Console, Merchant Center and GA4, your feed file or URL, and a copy of any CDN or firewall bot rules. No code access is required.
Does the audit include fixes?
No. You get exact, ranked changes your team can ship. If you want us to do the feed work, that is the product feed optimization retainer.
Often paired with
- Product feed optimization retainer: turn the feed findings into ongoing fixes
- AI visibility reporting: track the citation baseline every month
- Compare all five services side by side
Start with a free look at your store.
The mini-audit tells you whether this service is the right first step, before you spend anything.