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. Useful whether or not you ever use Sqrly.
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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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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