Validating an AEO/AI-visibility audit app - is ChatGPT sending your merchants any customers yet?
I'm a solo dev researching how well Shopify product data works with AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode). Shopify's own Spring '26 numbers say AI-referred traffic converts 7-16% vs ~2% organic, but Catalog syndication quality depends entirely on product data (categories, attributes, GTINs, descriptions, alt text).
Before I write more code, honest questions for people running or building for real stores:
Do you (or your merchants) see AI-referred sessions/orders in analytics yet?
Has anyone done anything specific to show up in AI answers - and did it move the needle?
Would a tool that scores catalog "AI readiness" (0-100) and fixes gaps in one click (metafields, taxonomy, schema - fixes stay in your data after uninstall) be worth $19/mo to the merchants you know?
Not selling anything - no listing yet, genuinely validating before building further. Happy to share back what I learn from this thread.