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AI indexing, built for Shopify

Your Shopify store,
cited by ChatGPT.

The GEO platform that makes every Shopify product parseable, quotable, and citable by the AI engines shoppers ask.

Indexed for and monitored across

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1,500+ Shopify stores shipped by Onviqa80+ checkpoint audit9 AI engines

Monitored across the AI engines shoppers actually use

ChatGPT
Perplexity
Claude
Gemini
Google AIO
Copilot
DeepSeek
Kagi
You.com
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Claude
Gemini
Google AIO
Copilot
DeepSeek
Kagi
You.com
The problem

Shoppers stopped asking Google.Your store hasn't caught up.

Every week, another slice of shopping intent moves off search engines and into chat interfaces. The stores that rank well on Google often don't surface at all in AI answers.

  • 92%

    of Shopify stores

    have zero AI-native indexing — no llms.txt, no structured product feed, no answer blocks.

  • 1 in 3

    shopping prompts

    now get answered inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — never reaching your site.

  • 6.4×

    more likely

    to win the citation if your catalog is retrieval-ready for AI assistants.

The shift

From 10 blue links to one answer.

AI assistants don't rank pages — they synthesize answers. The inputs that drove SEO don't make you citable here.

Yesterday — search era

Optimize to rank a page.

  • Keyword density & meta titles
  • Backlinks & domain authority
  • Click-through from SERPs
  • Funnel begins on your site
Today — GEO era

Optimize to be the answer.

  • Retrieval-ready catalog & answer blocks
  • AI-native feeds — llms.txt, ai-sitemap, NDJSON
  • Citations inside ChatGPT / Perplexity / AI Overviews
  • Funnel begins in the AI answer

TL;DR

  • Most Shopify stores are invisible to modern AI assistants. Surfient fixes that at the source: your storefront.
  • We audit, rewrite, and structure your catalog for retrieval — then publish the AI-native endpoints (llms.txt, ai-sitemap.xml, products.ndjson) AI crawlers actually read.
  • Built for merchants who want a defensible moat in the post-search era — no traditional SEO work required.
Platform

Everything AI needs to cite your store

One platform covering every surface AI assistants touch — audit, optimize, publish, and track, all in one loop.

In depth

Three modules doing the heaviest lifting.

The rest of the platform orbits these — audit reveals, fix ships, guard defends. Everything else compounds around them.

GEO Audit Engine

Score every page for AI citability.

Surfient grades your entire catalog against 80+ retrieval checkpoints — from schema coverage to answer-block density to llms.txt health — and returns a diffable punch list instead of a vanity score.

  • Live re-scan on every catalog change
  • Per-product, per-collection, per-page scores
  • AI engine coverage — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AIO
Explore the GEO Audit Engine

GEO Score — live

80+ checkpoints · weighted per engine

+14 this week

Score

0/100

Rescanned 6 min ago

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AI Fix Pack

Ship AI-ready changes without code.

Pick a fix from your punch list, preview the diff, click Publish. Surfient writes the schema, structures the facets, and republishes your llms.txt — no theme edits, no deploys, no engineering waiting list.

  • Diffable previews for every change
  • Revert in one click — every fix is versioned
  • Batch-apply across product lines
See the AI Fix Pack

Preview — add Product facets

BeforeAfter
"@type": "Product","name": "Aura Vitamin C Serum","image": "/products/aura-serum.jpg","offers": { "price": 42, "currency": "USD" }
3 retrieval gaps detected — fix readyPublish
Hallucination Guard

Catch AI when it gets your brand wrong.

We probe the major AI assistants weekly with the prompts your shoppers actually ask. When one misattributes a fact about your store, Hallucination Guard flags it and ships a structured correction the next crawl can ingest.

  • Weekly probes across 5 AI engines
  • Fact-level citation provenance
  • Auto-generated corrections pushed to feeds
Meet Hallucination Guard

Weekly probe

127 citations · 3 drifts

Auto-correct ready
  • ChatGPTAura Beauty · vitamin C serumcited
  • PerplexityMisattributed price · $28 → $42drift
  • ClaudeAura Beauty · sensitive-skin routinecited
  • Google AIONo citation · 3 prompts this weekmissing
Why Surfient

Built for merchants who want the AI moat.

Traditional SEO optimizes for 10 blue links. AI assistants pull answers — often without citations. Surfient ensures when they do cite, it's your store being quoted, not a marketplace.

  • Purpose-built for Shopify

    Reads your catalog, metafields, and theme. No scraping guesswork.

  • Zero traditional SEO

    We don't touch keyword density or backlinks. This is GEO, not 2010.

  • Honest about tradeoffs

    If a competitor does something better, we say so — comparison pages are frank.

  • Ships to production in minutes

    No new code, no new stack. Install the app, flip the switches you need.

3.4×

more AI citations vs. baseline

18 min

avg. time to first published fix

200+

Shopify stores scaling on AI

#2

avg. answer rank in ChatGPT shopping

How it works

From install to citation in under an hour.

Four steps. No kick-off call. No services engagement.

01

Install & connect

One-click Shopify install. We pull your catalog, metafields, and page copy — nothing leaves your store.

02

Scan & score

Surfient grades every product, collection, and page for AI citability. You get a GEO Score and a diffable punch list.

03

Fix & publish

Apply recommended fixes with previewable diffs. We publish your llms.txt, ai-sitemap, and product feeds automatically.

04

Track & compound

Weekly citation checks across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Watch the score climb.

Testimonials

Shopify merchants winning on AI.

3.4×

more AI citations in the first 90 days

200+

brands scaling through the platform

  • "We went from invisible on ChatGPT to cited in 3 out of 5 shopping queries in under six weeks. No engineering time required."

    MP

    Maya Patel

    Founder, Aura Beauty

  • "Surfient is the first tool where the GEO audit actually maps to commerce-specific fixes. Everything else is SEO rebranded."

    DC

    Daniel Chen

    Head of Growth, Northstar Home

  • "The cite graph shows us every AI surface that quotes us — and the ones that still get it wrong. We can finally close that loop."

    LR

    Léa Rousseau

    E-com Lead, Fjord Outdoor

Latest from the blog

GEO playbooks, written for Shopify operators.

Weekly long-form — what ChatGPT actually cites, why your schema breaks, and the 90-day paths that compound. No fluff, no SEO rebrands.

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  • AI Research12 min read

    7 Shopify prompt classes ChatGPT actually cites

    Shoppers don't ask assistants one kind of question. Seven distinct intent classes cover 96% of the commerce prompts we've sampled across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and AI Overviews — and each one rewards a different on-page pattern. Here is the full taxonomy.

    Read →
  • GEO Playbook11 min read

    Why your Shopify store isn't in ChatGPT

    Nine times out of ten a Shopify store is absent from ChatGPT for one of three classes of reason: it isn't being crawled by the right bots, its signals don't survive the retrieval pass, or the narrative on the page isn't shaped like something a model will quote. Here is the 14-point check we run, the thresholds we use, and the 6 fixes that close the gap fastest.

    Read →
  • AI Research10 min read

    How Perplexity ranks Shopify products in 2026

    Perplexity doesn't retrieve like ChatGPT. It runs a weighted merge across five signals, and the weights have moved meaningfully in the last 18 months. If you're tuning for the 2024 ranker, you're leaving citations on the table. Here's the current weighting, how we measured it, and the three merchant-controllable moves that compound.

    Read →
Daily AI-industry news

What shoppers will ask AI about next.

One story a day from the AI beat — funding, model releases, policy shifts — rewritten in Surfient voice with a POV section that ties each update to GEO reality.

All stories →
  • Funding

    Perplexity raises $500M, rides shopping ads to a $9B valuation

    The citation-first AI search engine closed a new round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Shopping-sidebar ads and citation-driven merchant traffic are two reasons the valuation tripled in a year.

    SourceThe Information3 min read
  • Product

    Google adds product cards inside AI Overviews

    AI Overviews for shopping queries now render inline product cards with merchant links, alongside the synthesised answer. The change reshapes which stores get clicked from a 'what should I buy' search.

    SourceGoogle Blog3 min read
  • Funding

    OpenAI raises $6.6B at a $157B valuation

    Thrive Capital led the round with participation from Microsoft, Nvidia, and SoftBank. The capital funds training runs for the next model generation and shopping-surface rollouts.

    SourceTechCrunch3 min read
Pricing

Two plans. Pick the one that fits.

Free forever to get your store AI-ready. Premium at $39 per month when you want the full automation suite. Billed through Shopify, cancel any time.

  • Free

    Install the app, audit your store, publish llms.txt — forever free.

    $0forever
    • 5 AI SEO audits per month · up to 250 pages each
    • 4 core AI-ready schema types
    • Manual FAQ + author-bio + catalog tools
    • llms.txt auto-publishing
    • AI visibility monitoring · 25 prompts · 3 competitors
    Install on Shopify — Free
  • Most popular

    Premium

    The full automation suite — AI generation, guard rails, 6-engine coverage.

    $39/month
    • Everything in Free, plus 30 audits/mo · 10,000 pages each
    • All 14 AI-ready schema types
    • AI FAQ (100/mo), bio (50/mo), and catalog (100/mo) generators
    • Full file suite: llms.txt · llms-full.txt · ai-sitemap.xml · products.ndjson
    • Hallucination Guard + Brand Authority (rolling out H1 2026)
    • AI visibility monitoring · 100 prompts · 5 competitors · 6 engines
    See Premium features

No trial — Free is already free. Compare every feature on the full pricing page.

FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

How is this different from SEO?
SEO optimizes for ranking in search result pages. GEO optimizes for being cited inside AI-generated answers. Different input, different output, different tactics. We don't touch keyword density or backlinks.
Which AI assistants does Surfient target?
ChatGPT (including shopping), Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini. We track citations weekly across all five and surface trend deltas in your dashboard.
Will this work on my existing Shopify theme?
Yes. Surfient works theme-agnostically — we read your catalog and metafields, then publish AI-native endpoints alongside. Your theme doesn't change unless you ask us to ship a fix that touches it.
How long until I see results?
First GEO Score within minutes of install. First ranked citation movement within 2–6 weeks, depending on your catalog size and how many fixes you ship.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Surfient has two plans — Free forever, or Premium at $39 per month. The Free plan includes 5 AI SEO audits a month (up to 250 pages each), the 4 core schema types, llms.txt auto-publishing, manual FAQ and author-bio tools, and AI visibility monitoring across 25 prompts and 3 competitors. No credit card, no trial to expire. Install directly from the Shopify App Store.
Who is behind Surfient?
Surfient is built by Onviqa Inc., a software studio founded in 2014 that has shipped ecommerce and SEO engineering for 500+ enterprise clients. This isn't a pivot — it's a deliberate bet on the post-search era from a team that's lived the pre-AI version for 12+ years.

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Ask the engines directly

Have more questions about Surfient? Ask your AI.

Open the conversation in the answer engine you already trust. The prompt is pre-filled — just hit send and let them tell you what Surfient does.

Your store, answered first.

Install Surfient on Shopify in under a minute. Free forever to audit your store and publish llms.txt — no credit card, no trial timer.

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