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Give your Shopify products the best seat at every AI table.

AI shopping agents are evaluating your catalog right now. Make sure they have everything they need to recommend your products.

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What happens when you install

01

Install the Shopify App

Find Inception Agents in the Shopify App Store and click Install. Authorize the app to access your store data.

02

Enter your API key

Go to Apps > Inception Agents in your Shopify admin. Paste your API key from the Inception Agents dashboard.

03

We analyze your catalog

The app syncs your product catalog, generates llms.txt, creates enriched structured data, and auto-generates Inception Points — making your entire catalog browsable by AI agents.

04

Agents start seeing optimized data

AI shopping agents visiting your store now receive machine-readable content tailored to how each platform evaluates products.

Commerce Protocols

Your products speak every agent's language.

Each AI platform has its own way of discovering and evaluating products. Inception Agents supports all of them.

Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)

OpenAI's protocol for AI shopping. Product discovery, comparison, and checkout — all machine-readable.

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Google's protocol for structured product data. Powers Gemini's shopping recommendations and product panels.

Shopify Agentic Commerce

Shopify's native protocol for ChatGPT Instant Checkout. Direct catalog access for connected merchants.

Copilot Catalog Integration

Microsoft Copilot reads product catalogs via JSON feeds. GTIN/UPC resolution and Knowledge Graph entity matching.

Inception Points

Your catalog becomes agent-navigable.

When agents visit your Shopify store, they can browse your full catalog — filtering by category, price, availability. Each section is enriched with AI-written content in your brand voice.

Products

Full catalog, filterable by category, price, availability, and audience. Agents browse like a personal shopper.

Deals

Current promotions and discounts, synced in real-time from your Shopify store.

Reviews

Aggregated review data with sentiment context. Agents use this to recommend with confidence.

Categories

Browsable category tree with product counts. Agents traverse your store structure naturally.

12-20 Inception Points auto-generated · 5 enrichment sections each · Health scores track readiness

Before and after Inception Agents

Without Inception Agents

  • -- Basic Shopify structured data with minimal product context
  • -- No llms.txt file for training crawlers
  • -- No agent detection or traffic attribution
  • -- No commerce protocol endpoints (ACP, UCP)
  • -- Agents see the same HTML as human visitors

With Inception Agents

  • + Enriched JSON-LD with competitive positioning, feature comparisons, and review summaries
  • + Auto-generated llms.txt updated from your catalog and agent behavior data
  • + Full agent detection with platform attribution and conversion tracking
  • + ACP, UCP, Shopify Agentic, and Copilot Catalog protocol support
  • + Each agent type receives content optimized for its evaluation model
  • + Inception Points — agents can browse, filter, and compare your catalog like a personal shopper

Integration Guide

Complete setup instructions

Choose the integration method that works best for your store.

Option 1: Dashboard Connector (Recommended)

New

Connect your Shopify store directly from the Inception Agents dashboard via OAuth. The fastest path to full optimization with real-time product sync.

  1. 1 Go to Connectors in the Inception Agents dashboard and click Connect Shopify
  2. 2 Authorize via Shopify OAuth — this grants read access to your product catalog, inventory, and store data
  3. 3
    The connector automatically:
    • Syncs your full product catalog with real-time webhook updates
    • Deploys optimized data to edge KV for sub-50ms agent responses
    • Generates and serves /llms.txt from live catalog data
    • Enriches product pages with AI-optimized structured data

Option 2: Shopify App

Install the Inception Agents Shopify App from the Shopify App Store.

  1. 1 Go to Apps > Inception Agents in your Shopify admin
  2. 2 Enter your API key from the Inception Agents dashboard
  3. 3
    The app automatically:
    • Generates and serves /llms.txt for your store
    • Enriches product pages with AI-optimized structured data
    • Tracks AI agent referral traffic
    • Reports visibility metrics in your dashboard

Option 3: Theme Script Tag

Add the browser beacon to track AI referral attribution.

  1. 1 Go to Online Store > Themes > Edit Code
  2. 2 Open theme.liquid
  3. 3 Add before </head>: 
<script
  src="https://cdn.inceptionagents.com/beacon.js"
  data-api-key="YOUR_API_KEY"
  data-tenant-id="YOUR_TENANT_ID"
  defer
></script>

Option 4: Cloudflare Proxy

If your Shopify store uses a custom domain behind Cloudflare, deploy the Cloudflare Worker for full edge-level optimization. 

npm install @inception-agents/cloudflare

See the Cloudflare integration guide for full setup. Set originUrl to your Shopify store URL (e.g., https://your-store.myshopify.com).

What Gets Optimized

Content How
Product catalog Structured JSON-LD with pricing, availability, reviews
/llms.txt Auto-generated from your product catalog
Agent card /.well-known/agent.json with store capabilities
Referral tracking AI platform attribution via browser beacon
Inception Points Auto-generated agent-facing catalog — products, categories, deals, reviews — browsable and filterable

Product Structured Data

Inception Agents enriches your existing Shopify product structured data with fields that AI agents prioritize:

  • + Competitive positioning and unique value propositions
  • + Machine-readable feature comparisons
  • + Availability and fulfillment signals
  • + Review sentiment summaries

AI Referral Tracking

The browser beacon detects visitors arriving from:

ChatGPT (chat.openai.com, chatgpt.com)
Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
Claude (claude.ai)
Google Gemini (gemini.google.com)
Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com)

Attribution data appears in your Inception Agents dashboard under Analytics > AI Referrals.

Verify Your Installation

# Test llms.txt
curl -s https://your-store.com/llms.txt

# Test agent detection
curl -s -H "User-Agent: GPTBot/1.0" https://your-store.com/products/your-product

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