Canonika
For Shopify Brands
AI recommendations are already driving sales. Just not yours.
Buyers are asking ChatGPT what to buy and it's recommending your competitor. Not because your product is worse. Because your data is. Canonika fixes the specific data signals agents require to recommend your brand and drive more sales through AI.
Valued at $1,500. Yours free. Limited availability.
Why isn't AI recommending your brand?
Two reasons. And both are fixable.
The Trust Gap
Buyers evaluate your brand holistically. Your design, your reviews, your reputation. Agents can't do that. They read specific data points, in a specific format, and either the information is there or it isn't.
Can it read your reviews? Can it understand your return policy? Can it confirm you're a legitimate business? Is your pricing accurate?If that information isn't built into your store's data or isn't in a format agents can read, you get skipped. Not ranked lower. Skipped entirely. The buyer gets a recommendation. It just isn't you.
The Match Gap
Agents also need to match your products to what a buyer actually asked for.
When a buyer asks for waterproof running shoes for wide feet with arch support under $200, the agent checks your product information for those exact details. If they're buried in a description, missing, or not structured correctly, your brand doesn't appear. Not because your product is wrong. Because the agent couldn't find the match.An audit we ran on a major Australian footwear brand confirmed it. Visible on branded searches. Invisible when buyers searched by need: wide fitting, arch support, orthopedic. Because the product details weren't structured correctly.The product was right. The data wasn't.
This isn’t our opinion. It’s their requirement.
Google, Shopify, and OpenAI have each built their own systems for AI shopping. All three are explicit about what it takes for AI agents to discover, trust, and recommend a brand: accurate brand information and structured product data. This isn't speculative. It's documented in the published technical requirements of each platform.
Here's how fast this is moving.
4700%
Growth in AI-driven traffic to retail sites year-over-year
Source: Adobe Insights 2025
15X
Increase in orders originating from AI searches on Shopify
Source: Shopify
95%
Of merchants can see AI agents crawling their store. Only 1 in 5 has data those agents can act on.
Source: PayPal Agentic Commerce Survey
$20.9B
Projected AI-platform retail sales in 2026 — four times the prior year
Source: eMarketer
Why now
AI is already recommending.
Soon it will be buying.
At scale.
Millions of buyers are already using AI to research, compare, and get recommendations. That's today's bar.Soon agents won't just recommend. They'll complete the purchase directly on the buyer's behalf. The trust requirements for that are higher. That's tomorrow's bar.Both bars require the same foundation: data that meets the standard agents demand.
Our Services
How we fix it.
Three services. The audit is always the starting point.
01 - Diagnose
AI Visibility Audit
Discover exactly why AI agents are skipping your store
and what needs to be fixed.
Most AI visibility tools measure presence. They give you a score, a dashboard, or a report showing how often your brand appeared in AI responses and which competitors appeared more.That tells you what happened. It does not tell you why agents are skipping you or what needs to be fixed.This audit is the diagnosis.Canonika checks your brand and product data against the documented requirements and recommendations from Shopify, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini.You get a clear verdict: what’s broken, why it matters, and what to fix first.Not a generic list of improvements. A prioritised action plan showing what’s most likely suppressing your recommendations, backed by evidence.Delivered to your inbox in five business days. No system access required.
Valued at $1,500. Complimentary. Limited availability.
02 — BUILD TRUST
Brand Intelligence
Fix the brand and credibility data agents need to trust you.
Canonika makes your brand and credibility signals readable for AI agents to understand, verify, and trust. The audit becomes a clear set of fixes your developer can implement, or we can connect you with a partner developer for a defined build.No ongoing agency relationship. No one living in your Shopify backend. Three to four weeks, start to finish.
03 - BUILD MATCH
Product Catalog Enrichment
Fix the product data agents need to match and recommend you.
AI agents don't read your product pages like a human. They look for specific attributes, in specific places, in formats they can understand and compare.A buyer asks ChatGPT for “waterproof hiking boots with a wide toe box and solid arch support.” If those details are buried in copy, missing, or in the wrong format, your product gets skipped.Canonika determines which attributes actually matter in your category, how they should be structured, and where they should live across your Shopify catalog.Then we structure those attributes across your highest-value products first.
***Coming Soon
Review Signals
Turn customer reviews into data AI agents can trust and use.
Most reviews are full of praise and empty of useful product detail. "Love it!" tells an agent nothing. But "Fits wide. True arch support. Waterproof in heavy rain." gives agents specific details they can match to buyers searching for those exact needs.That matters because generic praise gives AI systems very little to match against. Specific product detail gives them clear signals they can use.Canonika determines which product details buyers are searching for in your category, then designs review prompts that consistently capture those specifics across future reviews.The result is a growing layer of customer-generated product detail AI systems can act on.Works with Okendo, Yotpo, Judge.me, and Stamped. No developer time required.Available as a standalone engagement or as part of the complete Canonika system.
Start here
Find out exactly where you stand.
AI agents are now deciding what customers buy. Most Shopify stores aren't ready.The right first step is knowing exactly where you stand: an honest diagnosis of what's stopping AI agents from recommending you, and a prioritised call on what to fix first.That's what the AI Visibility Audit delivers. In five business days.
Limited time only. No commitment required.