What does SkuWatch AI Visibility Agent do?
It gives Shopify merchants one connected workflow for monitoring ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, discovering the product gaps that weaken AI visibility, publishing stronger descriptions and buyer FAQs, and verifying what changed.
How can SkuWatch improve my chances of appearing in AI recommendations?
SkuWatch shows how leading AI platforms answer real shopping questions, identifies missing or unclear product evidence, and helps merchants publish stronger descriptions and buyer FAQs. Clearer, more complete product facts give AI systems better information for retrieving, comparing, citing, and presenting your products.
Which AI providers are supported?
Each AI Visibility check requests ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude. Successful, failed, and excluded provider attempts remain separate. A timeout is never converted into “not recommended.”
What is a buyer question?
A buyer question is a saved shopping request used for monitoring, such as a product recommendation, comparison, budget, gift, or use-case question. Questions are versioned so editing one does not silently rewrite the context of historical answers.
Does monitoring support languages other than English?
Buyer-question monitoring is currently English. Merchants can configure one or more primary markets, but the website does not claim multilingual monitoring.
What does Scan and Improve inspect?
It audits active Shopify SKUs using Admin API product data. Findings can cover title, description, fact structure, vendor or brand, product type or category, primary image, alt text, SKU or barcode, price, and variant options.
What can Product Fix publish?
After merchant review and explicit approval, the current write path can update product.descriptionHtml and the app-owned $app.ai_faq product metafield. It does not automatically update titles, taxonomy, tags, images, alt text, SKU, barcode, price, inventory, or variants.
Which Shopify permissions are required?
read_products is required at installation. write_products is optional and requested in context only when a merchant chooses a Product Fix action that writes to Shopify. Read-only audits, AI Visibility checks, and previews remain available without optional write access, subject to the selected plan.
Does the app read customers, orders, checkout, or payments?
No. It does not request customer, order, checkout, Shopify Payments, POS, fulfillment, shipping, inventory-operation, or protected customer-data scopes.
Does the app modify theme files or robots.txt?
No. It does not request write_themes. Product FAQ and product structured data use a removable Shopify Theme App Extension that the merchant enables in Theme Editor. Crawler access can be checked and a robots template can be suggested, but SkuWatch does not write it into the theme.
What is Storefront Readiness?
The public scanner’s /100 result measures observable crawler access, sampled Product/ProductGroup and Offer JSON-LD completeness, and product-description readability. It is not an AI ranking score. Partial scans display coverage, and a password-protected or unavailable storefront returns no score rather than a false zero.
What is Product Readiness?
Product Readiness is a Shopify Admin-data score for one audited product. It summarizes specific product-field completeness. A product that has not been audited is Not checked, not zero. The score is not a recommendation probability.
What is Observed AI Visibility?
It is the timestamped evidence from defined buyer questions and successful provider answers: raw response, citations, entity matches, market, language, and provider status. It does not produce a universal /100 score.
How do scheduled checks work?
Free supports manual checks. Pro can enable weekly portfolio checks, and Growth can enable daily portfolio checks. A schedule runs only after the merchant activates it.
What happens after uninstall?
Verified Shopify uninstall and shop-redact webhooks remove the shop’s sessions and shop-scoped application records. Limited security logs, support correspondence, and legally required records may be retained only as reasonably necessary. Public website scan requests can be accessed or deleted by contacting [email protected].
Where should I start?
Follow the getting-started tutorial, open the product documentation, or contact support.