Can AI shopping agents answer questions about your store?

AI agent readiness is how well an AI shopping assistant such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity can answer a shopper's questions about your store using only what it can read: your product pages, policies and structured data. A ready store states fit, materials, delivery time, returns and price in plain text and in machine-readable form, so the agent quotes facts instead of guessing or recommending another store.

Mostly public data: product titles and descriptions, prices, variants and stock, your shipping and refund policies, reviews, and the schema.org structured data on product pages. Some agents also use catalog feeds and knowledge bases provided by the platform. The clearer and more complete that data is, the fewer questions an agent has to guess.

With fixed rules, not AI, so the same store gets the same score. We run 15 checks in five groups: product facts (30 points), policies (25), machine-readable data (20), offer clarity (15) and trust signals (10). The full checklist with points and fixes is on this page and in a plain-text version at starlix.net/ai-readiness.md.

Start with the biggest gaps in your report. For most stores that means adding a size chart or measurements to every product, stating delivery days and the return window in your policies, and making sure product pages publish structured data with price and availability. Each gap in the report includes the specific fix.

No. It's Starlix's estimate from your public pages. No AI platform publishes how it ranks stores, and a high score doesn't guarantee that any agent will recommend you. It shows which shopper questions your store data can and can't answer.

SEO is about ranking a page in search results. Agent readiness is about whether an assistant can answer a specific question from your data, such as fit, delivery time or the return window. Good SEO helps, but a page can rank well and still leave those questions unanswered.

They work together. Shopify's free Knowledge Base app lets you review and customize the FAQs AI agents use for your store. This check looks at the product pages, policies and structured data those answers are built from, and shows what's missing.

That's your call. We only report what your robots.txt allows. Blocking a crawler can keep your pages out of that assistant's answers, and some stores block crawlers on purpose.

No. The check only reads pages any visitor can see. It doesn't need access to your Shopify admin.

The store may be password-protected, may not be on Shopify, may hide its product catalog, or may ask scanners not to read it in robots.txt. We respect all of these.