How to Test If AI Shopping Agents Can Actually Find Your Store: A Step-by-Step Diagnostic Guide
92% of brands are invisible in AI search results, according to a May 2026 analysis of over 23,000 LLM citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. For ecommerce stores, this means products that rank on page one of Google might as well not exist when a shopper asks ChatGPT to recommend them. The gap is not always technical. Many stores have decent schema markup and even a Google Merchant Center feed, but fail at one of the other layers AI agents need: crawl access, structured content, or a clear llms.txt instruction file. The problem is that most store owners have no idea which layer is broken because they never test the full chain end to end. ...