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The Agent-Ready Storefront — sell where AI shops
Buying is becoming asking — and a lot of the asking never reaches your site. Kinect makes your store readable by the AI assistants shopping for your customers: the ones browsing your store and the ones pulling your data.
It runs on the same brain as your AI sales rep, so what AI reads about you is your version — current, complete, in your words.
The half of the funnel you can't see
A growing share of product research happens before anyone touches your site — in AI answers, assistant recommendations, comparisons run on a shopper's behalf. None of it shows up in your analytics. You only see the winners' traffic.
Most storefronts were built for people who click, not assistants that read. Product facts live in images. Policies live in PDFs. What sets you apart lives in a brand video. An assistant reading that store comes away with a shrug — and recommends the competitor it could actually read.
The industry is building agents to help people buy. Kinect builds the agents that help brands sell.
Two kinds of AI shop your store
Both decide whether you get recommended. They read different things.
The ones browsing your store
Assistants sent by a shopper
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini — opening your product pages and reading them like a very fast customer.
What they read
Your product pages, your shipping and returns pages, your reviews. If a fact isn't written down, it doesn't exist.
What Kinect does
Puts real answers where they look: fit, materials, what pairs with what, policies stated in plain text on the page — so the assistant finds an answer, not just a photo.
The ones pulling your data
Systems that never load a page
The shopping systems behind ChatGPT and Google don't browse — they take in your catalog as a feed and choose from what's in it.
What they read
Your product feed: titles, attributes, price, stock. Thin data reads as a thin brand.
What Kinect does
Keeps the feed clean and filled in — fit, fabric, occasion — and refreshed as your catalog changes, so the version of your products they hold is complete and current.
Readable today. Ready to take orders as AI checkout arrives.
New to the vocabulary? See the glossary: agent readability, agent storefront, and agentic commerce.
Described by your facts, not guesswork
When an AI assistant describes your brand today, it's working from whatever it could piece together. Kinect gives it your version: what sets you apart, your policies, and the answers to the questions shoppers actually ask — pulled from real conversations on your own store.
Part of the platform
The same brain that answers your shoppers keeps this current between visits — catalog filled in, feeds refreshed, answers up to date. One of six revenue jobs, one intelligence per brand.
See the platformSee where your store stands today
The UCP Test checks whether your store speaks the protocol AI checkout is starting to use. It takes about a minute.
Frequently asked questions
Are AI assistants really shopping from stores today?
Yes — and the volume is growing from a small base. Shoppers already ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini what to buy before they ever reach a brand's site, and the assistants do more of the work every month: comparing, shortlisting, answering questions about your products on a shopper's behalf. The question that matters isn't today's referral percentage — it's whether the version of your brand they describe is the one you'd want a customer to hear.
How is this different from GEO or AI-visibility tools?
GEO and AEO tools are marketing tools — they track whether you get mentioned in AI answers and try to influence it with content. Kinect works on the data underneath: making sure your catalog, brand facts, and policies are the right data in the right shape, so an assistant that finds you can actually read, understand, and recommend your products. Think of it as CRO for AI shoppers — not chasing the mention, but converting the one that's already looking. The two are complementary.
Doesn't Shopify already feed my catalog to ChatGPT?
Baseline presence is increasingly automatic — Shopify catalogs already flow into the surfaces where AI shops. But showing up isn't the same as being chosen. When every competitor's feed sits in the same index, the brands that win are the ones whose products carry real attributes and real answers: fit notes an assistant can quote, policies stated plainly, what sets you apart written down. That quality layer is what Kinect builds.
Is this a separate product from the AI sales rep?
Same brain, second job. The AI sales rep learns your catalog and your shoppers from real conversations on your site; the Agent-Ready Storefront turns what it knows outward, to the assistants shopping from outside. You don't set up two systems — one intelligence per brand runs both.
What happens when AI assistants can place orders?
That's where this is heading — checkout is starting to move into the assistants themselves. Kinect keeps you ready as it arrives: the clean catalog, live stock, and clear policies that make you readable are exactly what an assistant needs to complete an order. The UCP Test on this site shows where your store stands on the new checkout protocols today.
Related: Brand agents — the sell side of agentic commerce, GEO and the half-funnel problem, and The funnel went dark.
Be the answer, wherever the question is asked
Start where the revenue is today — the shoppers on your site — and be ready for where it's going. One brain does both.