ShopLens
A weekly AI-shopping visibility audit for DTC ecommerce brands — see exactly how ChatGPT Shopping, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode describe your products versus competitors, with playbooks to win the prompts that drive revenue.
DTC ecommerce founders and growth marketing leads at 6–7 figure brands
- Cross-agent visibility scan: weekly report showing how your top 100 SKUs are described in ChatGPT Shopping, Perplexity Shopping, and Google AI Mode
- Competitor gap map: ranked list of high-value prompts where competitors outrank you, scored by estimated revenue impact
- Action playbooks: copy rewrites, FAQ schema, and comparison-page templates tailored to your category
- Attribution dashboard: ties AI visibility lifts to actual site traffic and orders via UTM and pixel stitching
Wildcard cleared YC W25 and is reportedly growing 50% month over month while offering a $130–250K founding eng role, which is hard proof brands are already paying to fix this and the AI-shopping shift from Google is happening right now
Multiple dedicated vendors already serving this need (Profound, Peec AI, Otterly, Visby, XLR8, Alhena) and Semrush reports using its own AI Visibility Toolkit to grow share-of-voice 13%→32% in one month, confirming real pull from marketing teams.The 7 Best AI Visibility Tools to Win in AI Search (2026) - Semrush ↗Ecommerce & DTC LLM Visibility FAQs 2026 | XLR8 AI ↗9 Best AI Visibility Tools for E-Commerce - parcelperform.com ↗
Category is already crowded with at least 8 named competitors (Semrush, Profound, Peec AI, Writesonic, Otterly AI, Botify, Athena, plus ecommerce-focused Alhena, Visby, XLR8, Snapsell) — no wide-open blue ocean for a 'weekly audit' specifically.The 7 Best AI Visibility Tools to Win in AI Search (2026) - Semrush ↗Best AI Visibility Platforms for DTC Brands 2026 ↗AI Ecommerce Visibility Tools Compared (2026) ↗
Proven pricing: Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit $99/mo starter, $199–$549/mo tiers; Profound priced as enterprise analyst-led; DTC ecommerce has budget for $500–$2k/mo tools — willingness to pay is validated but margins face pressure as incumbents bundle it into existing SEO suites.The 7 Best AI Visibility Tools to Win in AI Search (2026) - Semrush ↗AI Visibility Toolkit Pricing | Semrush ↗compare pricing models for ai visibility platforms ↗
AI shopping is a multi-year secular shift: ChatGPT Shopping, Perplexity Shopping, and Google AI Mode are all actively expanding commerce surfaces, and third-party tracking categories only grow as long as engines keep opaque ranking signals.ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Google AI Mode: Where Shoppers Actually Buy ↗ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini vs Google AI Mode: How AI Shopping Platforms Compare ↗
Building the core scraper/tracker across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode is technically achievable but requires ongoing prompt sampling, anti-bot handling, and costlier LLM API calls; the 'weekly audit + playbook' wrapper is straightforward but not a defensible moat against Semrush-style bundles.The 7 Best AI Visibility Tools to Win in AI Search (2026) - Semrush ↗