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The practical takeaway from Shopify’s AI search data is straightforward: improve the product intelligence at the source, then make sure it can flow into the feeds, storefronts, marketplaces and other systems AI relies on to understand, compare and recommend products. Shopify has published new data on how shoppers arriving from AI tools behave compared with shoppers arriving through organic search. The headline figure is 197%. AI-referred sessions to Shopify storefronts grew 1

Standard product data helps systems identify and represent a product through information such as title, price, availability, variants and specifications. Product intelligence adds decision context around those facts, including suitability, use cases, limitations, evidence and meaningful differences between products. As AI takes on more product research and recommendation work, that richer information gives systems better material for assessing how well a product fits a buyer’

Most agentic commerce talk is about agents buying things. For ecommerce brands, the more immediate challenge comes earlier. Can AI understand your products, compare them accurately, and assess the available information well enough to recommend one — before the buyer ever reaches your product page?