Canonika

AI Shopping Visibility for Shopify stores

87% of Shopify stores are invisible
to AI agents.

Canonika optimises your store so AI agents like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Shopping find, trust, and recommend you first.

Valued at $1,500. Complimentary. No commitment required. Limited spots available.

Shopify AI visibility — how AI agents decide which brands to recommend

Why isn't YOUR brand showing up in AI search?

Two reasons. Your competitors are fixing both right now.

AI Trust Signals

Buyers evaluate your brand holistically — your design, your reviews, your reputation. Agents can't do that. They read specific data points, in a specific format, and either the trust signals are there or they're not.

When a buyer asks an AI agent for a recommendation, the agent draws on whatever it knows about your brand. Can it read your reviews? Can it understand your return policy? Can it confirm you're a real, legitimate business? Is your pricing accurate?If that information isn't built into your store's data — or isn't in a format agents can read — you get skipped. Not ranked lower. Skipped entirely. The buyer gets a recommendation. It just isn't you.

AI search visibility audit for Shopify — trust signal evaluation

Product Matches

Being trusted isn't enough. Agents also need to match your products to what a buyer actually asked for.

When a buyer asks for waterproof running shoes for wide feet with arch support under $200, the agent checks your product information for those exact details. If they're buried in a description, missing, or not structured correctly — your brand doesn't appear. Not because your product is wrong. Because the agent couldn't find the match.A live audit of a well-known Australian footwear brand showed this exactly. Visible on branded searches. Nearly invisible when buyers searched by need — wide fitting, arch support, orthopedic — because the product details weren't structured correctly.The product was right. The data wasn't.

Shopify AI recommendations — structured product data vs unstructured

Here's how fast this is moving.

9X

Increase in AI traffic to Shopify storefronts since January 2024

Source: Shopify

14X

Increase in orders originating from AI searches on Shopify

Source: Shopify

50%+

Of searches now end without a click. Users get an AI answer and never visit your site

Source: Bain, 2025

$20.9B

Projected AI-platform retail sales in 2026 — four times the prior year

Source: Retail industry data

Why this matters now

Most brands aren't meeting today's bar. They're nowhere near tomorrow's.

Millions of buyers are already using AI to research, compare, and get recommendations. The brands appearing in those conversations are compounding an advantage every month.But agents are also already completing purchases on buyers' behalf — and that's growing. The bar for that is significantly higher than the bar for recommendations. Most brands aren't meeting today's bar. They're nowhere near tomorrow's.The brands building the right foundation with Canonika now are getting ahead of both. The brands that wait will face a harder climb.

The Fix

Four services.
One logical sequence.

start here

AI Visibility Audit

Find out exactly where you stand

The ecommerce industry's most comprehensive audit — built against actual AI platform requirements, not general best practices.Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. Shopify Agentic Storefronts. The ChatGPT Merchant Program. The Perplexity Merchant Program. Each has specific data requirements. This audit checks your store against all of them.We start by running the queries your buyers are asking right now — in the actual platforms. You see whether agents are recommending your brand at all, and what they say when they do.Six pillars. Twenty-plus checks. Every gap documented with a screenshot, a specific cause, and
a prioritsed fix list.

Diagnostic card showing four Brand Intelligence trust signals evaluated by AI agents: Review Visibility, Policy Legibility, Brand Identity and Offer Accuracy

Valued at $1,500. Complimentary. No commitment. Limited spots.

Implementation - Trust

Trust Signal Optimisation

The signals that make agents trust you.

The audit found the gaps. This service closes them. Every trust signal agents need to recommend your brand — built correctly, in the right format, in the right place. Reviews agents can read. Policies agents can parse. A brand identity agents can verify. Pricing agents can trust.Brands without this layer aren't losing to better products. They're losing to brands agents trust more.Your developer gets the exact code, ready to implement. Canonika verifies every fix is working before signing off.


Implementation — Reviews

Review Data Optimisation

Your reviews are full of praise. They're empty of data

Every review your customers leave is either building your
AI visibility or wasting it. Most are wasting it.
"Love it!" tells an agent nothing. "Fits wide, true arch
support, waterproof in heavy rain" gets you matched and recommended to buyers who are ready to purchase.
We update your review questions around the specific attributes agents look for in your product category. Fast to implement. No developer needed. Within 30 days every
new review starts pulling its weight.


Coming Soon

Product Data Optimisation

The match layer agents need.

Being trusted isn't enough. If agents can't match your products to what a buyer asked, you don't appear — no matter how strong your trust signals are.This is the layer that fixes that — scoped per client, focused on your top revenue SKUs first. Available to audit clients first.

Start here

Find out exactly where you stand.

The right first step is knowing exactly where you stand. A clear picture of what AI agents are already recommending in your category, and an honest diagnosis of what's stopping them from recommending you.That's what the Agent Trust Audit delivers. In five business days. Complimentary. No commitment required.

Valued at $1,500. Limited spots available.