We find where your store is
invisible in search and AI answers
Organic search is still the biggest discovery channel most stores have, and a second one (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) is growing fast and converting hard. Most brands are losing ground on both: thin product and category content, weak schema, slow pages, and zero structure for AI to cite. kratt runs a free AI audit that ranks where the lost visibility costs you orders, then builds, hosts, and runs the fix on both fronts. The audit is yours to keep.
What the open loop is costing you.
The conservative numbers below are pulled from kratt's audit data and published industry research for ecommerce. Every leaky channel here is a competitor's win.
- · Industry SEO benchmark data (2025): organic Google search drives roughly 43% of traffic to ecommerce sites and accounts for an estimated 23.6% of online sales, the largest single discovery channel for most stores.
- · Adobe Analytics (March 2025): traffic to US retail websites from generative AI sources jumped about 1,200% year over year; AI referrals converted roughly 31% higher than other sources over the 2025 holiday season.
- · Industry CTR studies (2025, e.g. SearchEngineLand / Seer / Semrush): Google AI Overviews reduced organic click-through rate by around 61% on affected queries, while brands cited in an AI Overview earned about 35% more organic clicks than uncited brands.
- · Bain & Company (2025): roughly 60% of Google searches now end without a click; 80% of consumers rely on zero-click or AI-summarized answers in at least 40% of searches.
Wired into the tools you already run.
We wire into the stack you already run. Shopify stays the system of record and the storefront, Search Console and Merchant Center give us the search and shopping signal, schema and an llms.txt make your catalogue citation-ready for AI engines, and Ahrefs or Semrush track movement on both fronts. Make.com or n8n keeps product and content data flowing so structured markup stays current as your catalogue changes. Everything stays in your accounts, not ours. The only piece that is yours to keep regardless of what happens next is the free audit.
Four playbooks shipping in week one.
Each playbook is shippable within audit in days of kickoff. Most ecommerce clients start with the first two and add the rest in weeks 2–4.
Audit-ranked category and product content that ranks
The audit usually flags thin or duplicated category and product pages as the biggest organic leak first. We build a topical-cluster content layer (buying guides, comparison pages, category hubs) mapped to real commercial keywords, with internal linking that funnels authority to the pages that convert, so you rank for how shoppers actually search instead of leaving those terms to competitors.
Recover share of the ~43% organic channelAEO: get your store cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews
We make your catalogue machine-readable and citation-ready: clean Product, Offer, FAQ and Review schema, an llms.txt, and answer-shaped content that directly resolves shopping questions. The goal is to be the brand AI engines name and link, since cited brands earn roughly 35% more clicks and AI shoppers convert higher.
Citations on AI shopping answersCore Web Vitals and technical SEO foundations
Slow, crawl-blocked, or schema-broken stores leak rankings before content ever matters. We fix the technical foundation, page speed and Core Web Vitals, crawlability, canonical and faceted-navigation control, and valid structured data across the catalogue, so both Google and AI crawlers can read and trust the store.
Pass Core Web Vitals at scaleVisibility tracking across search and answer engines
Most brands measure rankings and ignore whether AI engines cite them at all. We stand up a dashboard that tracks classic rankings alongside AI Overview presence and ChatGPT and Perplexity citations on your priority queries, so you see which content earns visibility on both fronts and where orders are still leaking.
Visibility tracked on both frontsReal numbers from a real operator.
What closing the visibility loop looks like for a mid-size DTC store
What it costs, without the dance.
Start with the free AI audit, it is the only deliverable that is yours to keep no matter what. It ranks your visibility leaks (organic rankings, AI citations, technical foundations, content gaps) in real dollars of unbooked orders for your store. If you decide to move, we scope a build-and-run engagement against the biggest leak, hosted and operated by us on your existing stack, priced to the size of the problem we are closing, not a fixed retainer quoted before we know your numbers.
Five things ecommerce operators ask first.
The questions every ecommerce prospect asks on the first call. Answers in writing so you can decide before booking.
How much does AI SEO and AEO for ecommerce cost?+
The audit is free, and it is the one thing that is yours to keep whether or not you work with us. After it, we scope a build-and-run engagement against the single biggest visibility leak the audit ranked, so pricing maps to the size of the organic and AI-visibility problem we are closing, not a fixed package. You see the leak in dollars before you commit to anything.
What is AEO and why does it matter for my store now?+
AEO is answer engine optimization, getting your store cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews instead of just ranking blue links. It matters because AI referral traffic to US retail jumped roughly 1,200% year over year and those shoppers convert higher, while AI Overviews quietly cut organic clicks. If AI cannot read and cite your catalogue, you are invisible in a channel that is growing fast.
Is AI SEO actually worth it for an ecommerce brand my size?+
It is worth it when there is a real visibility leak to close, and most stores have one. Organic is about 43% of how shoppers find you, AI Overviews are eroding those clicks, and a parallel AI channel is growing fast. The free audit tells you the dollar figure for your store before you spend anything, so you are not betting on a guess.
How is this different from hiring a traditional SEO agency?+
Traditional agencies hand you a deck and a backlog of tickets. kratt runs the audit to rank your leaks in dollars, then builds, hosts and runs the fix on both classic search and answer engines, on the stack you already pay for. One team does the strategy and the shipping, in days rather than the months a report-and-handoff cycle takes.
Can you actually get my products cited in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews?+
We cannot promise a specific engine cites you on a given day, no honest operator can. What we can do is the work that makes citation possible: clean Product, Offer, FAQ and Review schema, an llms.txt, and answer-shaped content that resolves shopping questions directly. Cited brands earn roughly 35% more clicks, so we build for that and track which queries you start showing up on.
Will AI Overviews and zero-click search kill my SEO traffic anyway?+
They change it, they do not end it. Around 60% of searches now end without a click and AI Overviews cut organic CTR sharply, but shopping queries are less affected than informational ones, and being the cited brand wins back clicks. The play is to defend the commercial terms that still send orders and to get cited where AI summarizes the rest. The audit shows you which is which for your store.
My product and category pages are thin and my schema is a mess. Can you still help?+
Yes, that is the normal starting point. Most stores have duplicated category copy, missing or broken structured data, and a catalogue that AI crawlers cannot parse. Fixing that is the build, and the audit works off whatever you have today, even if it is messy. We start with the pages that move the most money.
How fast can you ship something live?+
Days, not months. Because we build on the stack you already run and start with the single highest-dollar visibility leak the audit found, the first fixes, technical foundations, schema, the priority content cluster, usually ship in the first weeks, then we expand across the catalogue from there.
Other verticals we ship AI SEO for.
Same technical SEO, AEO, and a content engine, tuned to industry-specific needs. Same deploy cadence. Same guarantees.
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