AI platform or app reccs

@Rahul-FoundGPT
Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:05:29 +0000

Good list @Bart93. The tools most people mention here (Klaviyo, Surfer, Triple Whale) cover the execution layer well. There is one category missing from this thread that I keep seeing have outsized impact on Shopify specifically right now: AI discoverability.

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot are already surfacing product recommendations and sending traffic directly to stores. The problem is most merchants have no idea whether their store is being read correctly by these models or ignored entirely.

There are really two levers here. About 60% of whether a store shows up in AI results comes down to external citations: which websites, Reddit threads, gift guides, and blogs are already mentioning your niche. That part is off-store. The other 40% is internal store health: product description quality, image alt text, schema markup, and whether the store has an llms.txt file that gives LLMs a structured brief on what the store sells and who it is for.

The internal 40% is what most merchants can actually control today. That is where I focus with FoundGPT: it audits a Shopify store specifically for AI readiness, flags what is missing, and sets up the llms.txt file automatically.

For the citation side, the fastest diagnostic is to open a fresh ChatGPT session, search for your niche (“best [your product type] under $X”), and see which websites are being cited as sources. Those cited URLs are your outreach targets, not another round of product description rewrites.