How to Run an AI Readiness Check on Your E-Commerce Products in 2026
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An AI readiness check is an audit of how well AI shopping agents can find, read, and recommend your products across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and other AI-powered search surfaces. As of April 2026, 34% of e-commerce product pages cannot be properly accessed by AI agents at all, while AI-referred traffic to US retailers has grown 393% year over year. The gap between "connected to AI shopping" and "actually recommended by AI" is product data quality. This guide walks through a practical, step-by-step AI readiness audit any e-commerce team can run this week.