Do ChatGPT and Claude recommend this store?
Shoppers ask AI assistants what to buy, and the answer names three to five brands — or names the competitors. Enter any client's store and we crawl it the way AI crawlers do, then show exactly what blocks it, with the fix for each finding.
Real checks on the live site · report in about a minute · shareable link to keepAgencies: run it for each client's store — it's free. The full report lands in your inbox.
client-store.com
- ClaudeBot blocked in robots.txtBlocks
- No page answers “best ergonomic chairs”Platform fixBlocks
- Organization schema missingPlatform fixWarning
- llms.txt missingNote
- Homepage is indexable — no noindex directivesPasses
The machinery first. Then the answers.
Can AI read the store at all?
- 01AI crawler access — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot in robots.txt
- 02llms.txt — the map AI assistants look for first
- 03Organization & FAQ structured data
- 04A page for every buying question, with real depth
Where does it land in the actual answers?
- 01Real ChatGPT and Claude runs on the store's buying queries
- 02Its position vs the competitors actually being recommended
- 03Movement over time, and what changed between runs
- 04That needs assistant runs, not a crawl — so it's not in the free check
The check is free and standalone. datavessel is the operations center.
This tool crawls one store and emails you the report — nothing more. datavessel itself is a different thing: the operations center for agencies and operators running many e-commerce stores.
Many stores, one inbox
Shopify, WooCommerce and Shopware stores side by side — every client its own scope.
Policies decide
Readable when · where · then rules run the routine work across stores.
Agents do the work
Drafts and proposed actions on the store itself, never silently.
You sign off
Anything that moves money or publishes waits for a human. Web or mobile.
Ledger per client
Every action on record — which store, what, approved by whom.
Fair questions.
What is AEO?+
Answer Engine Optimization: making a store visible when shoppers ask AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude what to buy. The answer names a handful of brands — AEO is the work of being one of them.
What does the free check actually do?+
It crawls the live site the way AI crawlers do: robots.txt AI-crawler access, llms.txt, Organization and FAQ schema, and whether an indexable page answers each buying question we derive from the homepage. Deterministic checks, no estimates, and every finding comes with its exact fix.
Will this improve rankings?+
We don't promise rankings — nobody honestly can. What the check gives you is narrower and verifiable: every finding has a named cause, a link to the recommendation it's grounded in, and the exact fix. Visibility follows the work; the report tells you what the work is.
Why are some fixes copy-paste and others "platform fix"?+
robots.txt and llms.txt live at the server root, which store platforms don't let an app write to — for those we hand you the exact file contents to paste. Schema, FAQ blocks, content depth, and missing pages live inside the store platform itself (Shopify, WooCommerce, Shopware), so they're marked platform fix: you apply them inside the platform's admin rather than at the server root. The report tells you exactly what to change either way.
I run an agency — can I check every client's store?+
Yes. The check is free, needs no account, and runs one store at a time — so run it for any client's domain, as often as you like. Each run emails you that store's report with a permanent link you can forward to the client.
Is this part of the datavessel product?+
No — it's a free check we run for you and email the results. The operations center itself is a separate product for agencies running many stores: policies, agents, sign-off and a per-client ledger across Shopify, WooCommerce and Shopware.
What can't a crawl see?+
The answers themselves — who ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini actually name for a buying query. That takes real assistant runs, not a crawl, so it's outside this free check. Everything in the report is deterministic: same site, same check version, same score.
The sponsored slot you can't buy.
A store earns its place in AI answers. This check shows what's in the way and hands you the fix — emailed, with a link that stays live. Agencies: run it for each client's store, it's free.
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