How AI Shopping Agents Discover Your Store: The 7-Step UCP Discovery Flow
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Generative AI
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 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. Here's the exact 7-step sequence every AI agent follows.