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AI and agentic commerce guides: ChatGPT, LLM visibility and MCP for Shopify.

How AI assistants see a Shopify store, what agentic commerce changes for merchants, and the tooling — MCP, structured data, llms.txt — that makes a store legible to machines.

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AI now reaches a Shopify store in two directions: the apps a merchant installs — copy, personalisation, support agents, search — and the assistants customers use to decide what to buy, which read the catalogue, compare it with competitors and increasingly complete the purchase. These guides cover both, plus the tooling — MCP servers, structured data, llms.txt — that makes a store legible to machines.

Start with the AI Visibility Audit to see whether ChatGPT and Perplexity name your store today; most brands find the assistants have never heard of them.

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