How AI Shopping Agents Discover Your Store: The...

You spent months perfecting your Shopify theme. Your product photos are stunning. Your checkout converts at 3.2%. But when a customer asks ChatGPT "find me running shoes under $150," your store doesn't exist. AI shopping agents don't see your homepage. They don't scroll your collections. They follow a strict, machine-readable discovery flow called UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) - and if any step fails, they silently move to the next store. Here's the exact 7-step sequence every AI agent follo