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Selling in the age of AI agents

Practical, honest notes for online retailers on agentic commerce — what's changing, and what to do about it.

August 12, 2026

The AI-visibility checklist: 8 things that decide whether AI assistants recommend your store

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity recommend stores they can read, trust, and reach. Here are the eight mostly-free fixes that decide whether yours is one of them.

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August 8, 2026

Introducing sqrly Pulse: your AI visibility, watched every week — $9.99/mo

Our free snapshot told you how AI assistants see your store today. Pulse turns it into a living dashboard: weekly checks, monthly deep scans, competitor tracking, and an alert if an AI ever starts saying something wrong about your brand.

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August 7, 2026

Your store is now checked against Perplexity — the AI your most serious shoppers use

Our free AI-readiness report now asks four assistants about your store: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — and Perplexity, the research engine people use when they're deciding what to buy. Here's why it matters and what we found on day one.

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July 22, 2026

AI assistants don't read your website first — here's where they actually research your brand

When a shopper asks an AI assistant what to buy, it doesn't start on your site. It reads review roundups, health portals, listicles, and forums — and recommends whoever those pages feature. Here's what we found, and what to do about it.

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July 9, 2026

We ran AI-readiness reports on 25 independent stores. Three findings kept repeating.

The AI assistants know who these stores are — and send shoppers elsewhere. The sale routes through resellers. And the expertise that makes each store special is exactly what no AI can see. Here's what we found, and the free fixes.

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July 3, 2026

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini: who actually uses each one — and why your store should care about all three

The three big AI assistants have very different audiences. Here's who uses which, what they use them for, and why showing up in only one isn't enough anymore.

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June 23, 2026

AI agents are starting to do the shopping. Here's what it means for your store.

A plain-English guide to agentic commerce for small retailers — what's changing, why it matters, and what you can do this week.

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June 23, 2026

Shopify just gave you an AI sales agent. Here's how to turn it on — and where it stops short.

Shopify quietly shipped AI selling features to merchants in 2026. Most haven't switched them on. Here's what they do, how to enable them, and the gap they leave.

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June 23, 2026

Why AI agents recommend some products and skip yours

When a shopper asks AI what to buy, it names specific products — and ignores others. Here's how that decision gets made, and how to be the one it picks.

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