Most AI visibility tools scrape LLM outputs, but large language models are non-deterministic. The same query returns different answers based on session context, location, and model updates. Only ecommerce-grounded AI visibility intelligence turns monitoring into actionable revenue insights.
AI handles 60 to 86 percent of routine support queries, but Gartner says no Fortune 500 will fully eliminate human agents by 2028. Here is the data on what AI does better, what humans do better, and how to get the balance right.
Google Gemini now lets shoppers buy Shopify products without leaving the chat. Your catalog is there whether you opted in or not. Here's what merchants lose control of, what they still own, and where on-site AI fills the gaps Gemini leaves behind.
The industry says brands need unified commerce before deploying agentic AI. But most brands run fragmented stacks and can't wait years to unify. The real answer: grounded agents that verify every fact from live systems and never hallucinate.
Every AI chatbot vendor ships a visual builder. Drag boxes, connect arrows, ship by Friday. But for most ecommerce brands, the studio model creates more problems than it solves. Here's why agentic AI that plans at runtime is the better path.
Alhena ranks #1 in this comparison of seven AI shopping assistants for ecommerce product discovery, recommendations, cart actions, checkout, and conversion.