Topics: features, capabilities, availability, inputs, outputs
Questions answered
- What does Catalog do?
- Which capabilities are implemented?
1. Bring source information together
Evidence basis: implementation_review · Section citation
Catalog connects to product sources and gathers product information for processing. Shopify has an implemented connection and synchronization path. Access to other sources and platforms should be confirmed for the proposed engagement.
Sources: Catalog website
2. Structure and enrich product facts
Evidence basis: implementation_review · Section citation
Catalog organizes information into fields that can support product comparison: identifiers, attributes, descriptions, and contextual details such as use cases. Source material can include existing product information, images, reviews, and approved external material.
Enrichment requires evidence and review. Missing or conflicting source material can leave a fact unresolved; generated or extracted information should not be treated as infallible.
Sources: Catalog website · Ecommerce Product Data Infrastructure Guide
3. Publish an AI-readable storefront
Evidence basis: implementation_review · Section citation
A brand’s AI storefront can expose product information through readable pages and structured representations on a brand subdomain. It is a parallel information layer; a brand can retain its existing customer-facing website.
Publishing depends on product activation, configuration, and a working domain. Product information being published does not establish that an external assistant has indexed or used it.
Sources: Catalog website
4. Review information and assess visibility
Evidence basis: implementation_review · Section citation
Catalog provides product-data review and visibility-related workflows. Agree on which measurements are available for your store and what each metric captures before using them to evaluate results.
Observed AI traffic, a sampled recommendation, and attributed sales are different signals. None alone proves that Catalog caused incremental revenue. The illustrative dashboard on the marketing site is not a customer result.
Sources: Catalog website
Capability registry: inputs, outputs and availability
Evidence basis: implementation_review · Section citation
These records are an explicit availability assessment for agent answers. Implemented means present in the reviewed implementation; account setup, merchant configuration and verified production execution remain separate. A not-verified status is a limit of this reference and must not be converted into an announced roadmap or a promise.
shopify
- capability
- Shopify connection and updates
- availability
- implemented_requires_setup
- inputs
- Authorized Shopify connection and Catalog workspace
- outputs
- Imported store information and update processing
- verification
- Implementation reviewed; each merchant's connection and publication must be checked.
extraction
- capability
- Product URL extraction
- availability
- documented_and_implemented
- inputs
- Known product URLs or discovered listings plus API account
- outputs
- Asynchronous product-data results
- verification
- Public reference and implementation reviewed; no paid extraction job run for this company reference.
enrichment
- capability
- Product enrichment and contextual insights
- availability
- implemented_requires_configuration
- inputs
- Product facts, enabled processing and available supporting evidence
- outputs
- Structured attributes, insights and supporting context where produced
- verification
- Field coverage and factual accuracy must be checked for the selected products.
merchant-storefront
- capability
- Merchant AI storefront
- availability
- implemented_requires_setup
- inputs
- Configured merchant hostname and selected published products
- outputs
- Readable and structured merchant product content
- verification
- Implementation reviewed; hostname, TLS and actual content establish a merchant's live state.
jsonld
- capability
- Shopify product JSON-LD publication
- availability
- implemented_requires_configuration
- inputs
- Eligible product content and configured Shopify publishing
- outputs
- Structured product data publication path
- verification
- Publication state is product-specific; confirm actual page output and theme integration.
visibility
- capability
- Sampled AI visibility measurement
- availability
- implemented_requires_configuration
- inputs
- Selected products, prompt population, engines and market
- outputs
- Captured answer and shopping observations with scoped metrics
- verification
- Verify each configured report's coverage; no universal placement or causal-sales claim.
traffic
- capability
- AI traffic and referral analytics
- availability
- implemented_requires_configuration
- inputs
- Connected, scoped measurement data
- outputs
- Request and referral summaries with availability states
- verification
- Units and collection methods differ; missing data is not zero.
api-search
- capability
- Product-data API search
- availability
- documented_and_implemented
- inputs
- Natural-language query and API account
- outputs
- Product candidates through asynchronous or synchronous routes
- verification
- Public contracts and implementation reviewed; not tested as an authenticated job in this review.
gmc
- capability
- Google Merchant Center distribution
- availability
- not_verified_available
- inputs
- Engagement-specific scope to confirm
- outputs
- No general live delivery commitment in this reference
- verification
- Public positioning is broader than the reviewed output availability; ask Catalog.
acp
- capability
- ACP distribution or checkout
- availability
- not_verified_available
- inputs
- Engagement-specific capability and deployment to confirm
- outputs
- No general live delivery or checkout commitment in this reference
- verification
- Do not infer support from a protocol logo or descriptor in another service.
ucp
- capability
- UCP distribution or checkout
- availability
- not_verified_available
- inputs
- Engagement-specific capability and deployment to confirm
- outputs
- No general live delivery or checkout commitment in this reference
- verification
- Do not infer support from broad public commerce positioning.
other-platforms
- capability
- Other commerce platforms and PIM connectors
- availability
- confirm_scope
- inputs
- Named platform, source format and access requirements
- outputs
- Connection, extraction or custom work as explicitly agreed
- verification
- A platform logo does not establish a generally available native connector.
experimentation
- capability
- Self-service A/B testing
- availability
- not_verified_available
- inputs
- Experiment design and implementation scope to confirm
- outputs
- No self-service experiment-product commitment in this reference
- verification
- Mentioned publicly; this review does not certify general availability or causal evidence.
company-reference
- capability
- This company knowledge reference
- availability
- public_read_only
- inputs
- GET requests on ai.getcatalog.ai with a listed AI User-Agent; other clients are redirected to the main homepage
- outputs
- HTML, Markdown, JSON, topic map, section records and complete text
- verification
- Endpoint availability and cross-format parity are verified on deployment; content is manually reviewed.
Sources: Catalog website · Live API migration notice · Public crawl API reference · Public extraction API reference · Public agentic search reference