# Caffeine and Commerce, AgentReady Updated: 2026-08-10 > AgentReady is structured data for Shopify stores. It audits what machines can read, writes missing structured data from real store facts, publishes after merchant approval, verifies its own output on the live storefront, and monitors it for drift. Caffeine and Commerce is the Shopify Partner agency behind it. Caffeine and Commerce is the independent agency that builds AgentReady and operates a full Shopify development practice for direct-to-consumer brands. We have shipped storefronts for Last Crumb, SkinnyDipped, Fable, William Painter, and Justine Leconte. ## Products - [AgentReady](https://caffeinecommerce.com/agentready): Structured data for Shopify stores. It prepares Schema.org structured data from confirmed catalog facts, publishes after merchant approval, and verifies the output on the live storefront. Free includes the audit plus manual schema generation; paid automation starts at $29/mo with a 14-day trial. Full product site at https://joinagentready.com, app at https://app.joinagentready.com, install on the Shopify App Store at https://apps.shopify.com/agentreadyapp. - [AgentReady product llms.txt](https://joinagentready.com/llms.txt): The AgentReady product marketing site publishes its own llms.txt covering the app, pricing, and tools. - [AgentReady app index](https://app.joinagentready.com/llms.txt): The AgentReady app site publishes its own llms.txt covering the app, help center, and pricing. - [Get recommended by AI shopping assistants](https://caffeinecommerce.com/ai-shopping-assistants): What ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI search need to read on a Shopify store to recommend its products, and how AgentReady provides it. - [Win Shopify's AI buy box](https://caffeinecommerce.com/win-the-ai-buy-box): How AgentReady's Catalog tier fixes your product data, verifies that Shopify's Global Catalog absorbed each fix, and charts the lift over time. - [Shopify Catalog lander](https://caffeinecommerce.com/shopify): Ads destination for Shopify Catalog: free six-requirement check, schema layer, calibrated claims only. - [AI content engine (research preview)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/reach): Dated research preview, July 2026. Store-grounded content drafting that publishes only after approval, with Search Console reporting that never claims causation. Limited to approved research stores; not currently sold as a product. - [AI answer monitoring (research preview)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/ai-answers): Dated research preview, July 2026. Measures how often a store appears in AI assistant answers, with variance-honest evidence and denominators. Limited to approved research stores; not currently sold as a product. - [AgentReady Managed: done-for-you](https://caffeinecommerce.com/managed): The top plan where the AgentReady team operates your store's AI readiness for you: audit, approved structured data, live verification, and upkeep, reported in numbers. Application only, limited seats. - [AgentReady inside Shopify Sidekick](https://caffeinecommerce.com/shopify-sidekick): 17 tools inside Shopify's admin AI assistant. Ask your readiness score, catalog rank, catalog gaps, content schedule, and content revenue; answers come from the store's own AgentReady data, read-only by design. - [AgentReady vs hand-coding structured data](https://caffeinecommerce.com/agentready-vs-hand-coding-schema): Comparison of hand-writing and maintaining Schema.org markup yourself versus letting AgentReady generate and keep it in sync. ## AgentReady features AI-readiness foundation (Free supports manual schema generation; paid plans add automation and higher limits): - Schema.org JSON-LD prepared from confirmed store data (Product, Collection, Article, Page, Recipe, HowTo, FAQPage, Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList). Theme app extension required before storefront delivery; configured is not the same as observed. - agents.md and llms.txt style discovery files (per-store) - Crawlability audit (robots.txt + sitemap, AI-bot allowlist) - Schema readiness score (A to F) with prioritized fix list - Theme app embed (Built-for-Shopify, designed for zero shopper-facing JavaScript) - Onboarding wizard with AI-drafted brand description for your confirmation - LocalBusiness schema for physical stores when you confirm location facts - Webhook-driven regeneration of affected payloads on paid plans (still re-observe live pages) - AI alt text, SEO meta, and Recipe / HowTo / FAQ editors (review then apply) Content engine (dated research preview, July 2026; limited to approved research stores; not currently sold as a product): - Store-grounded blog posts, written in the store's tone, published to the store's own Shopify blog only after approval - Keyword gap finder and topic-cluster content roadmap - Tone control, preview, and edit on every post before it publishes - Google Search Console reporting of impressions and clicks since a change (not claimed as causation) ## Pricing - Free Audit: $0. AI-readiness audit, gap report, and manual schema generation for up to 500 products and pages, with a six-hour cooldown. No automated refresh. - Core: $9/mo or $81/yr, up to 500 products and pages with Standard AI included. The complete paid product: audit, generate, preview, publish after approval, verify on the live storefront, automatic catalog updates, drift detection, issue history, safe removal, email support. 14-day trial. - Growth: $29/mo or $261/yr (save 25%), the same product for catalogs up to 5,000 products and pages, plus Advanced AI with image understanding funded by a monthly credit balance, 14-day trial - Pro: $79/mo or $711/yr (save 25%), the same product with unlimited products and pages, a larger credit balance, priority support, and guided founder onboarding, 14-day trial Install free is the on-ramp; every paid plan starts with a 14-day trial. Growth and Pro include a monthly credit balance for Advanced AI work, with the exact cost shown before each run; Core includes Standard AI with no meter. Every paid plan bills through the Shopify App Store, see https://joinagentready.com/pricing. ## Company - [About](https://caffeinecommerce.com/about): How Caffeine and Commerce works with DTC brands. - [Dylan Hunt (author)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/authors/dylan-hunt): Founder of Caffeine and Commerce and builder of AgentReady; author of the Shopify and agentic-commerce guides on this site. - [Agency](https://caffeinecommerce.com/agency): Full-service Shopify development, conversion optimization, and Klaviyo email programs. - [Shopify Scripts to Functions migration](https://caffeinecommerce.com/shopify-scripts-migration): Service to migrate Shopify Scripts (discounts, shipping, payment) to Shopify Functions before Scripts retires on June 30, 2026. - [Contact](https://caffeinecommerce.com/contact): Get in touch about a project. - [Changelog](https://caffeinecommerce.com/changelog): Dated feed of shipped AgentReady features, improvements, and fixes. ## Case studies - [Fable Pets](https://fablepets.com): Premium pet gear, editorial Shopify storefront focused on conversion, site speed, and editorial polish. - [William Painter](https://williampainter.com): Premium titanium sunglasses, Shopify storefront engineered around a lifetime warranty narrative, with subscription socks integrated alongside the eyewear catalog. - [Fathead](https://fathead.com): Licensed sports merchandise platform, high-traffic Shopify Plus build with license-aware navigation and playoff-week resilience. - [Numi Tea](https://numitea.com): Wellness tea brand, Shopify storefront with a custom bundle builder, Subscribe & Save, and a quietly confident shopping experience. - [Wild Wonder](https://drinkwildwonder.com): Functional beverage CPG, flavor-first Shopify storefront with variant pickers, subscription bundles, and mobile-first speed. ## Free tools - [Shopify AI Readiness Checker](https://caffeinecommerce.com/tools/shopify-ai-readiness-checker): Free instant audit of any public Shopify store, scoring how readable it is to AI shopping assistants across brand identity, products, discovery files, answer-engine meta, and trust signals, with the exact fix for each gap. - [Shopify Catalog Readiness Checker](https://caffeinecommerce.com/tools/shopify-catalog-readiness-checker): Free check of how ready a store's catalog is to be absorbed into and recommended from Shopify's Global Catalog (structured product data, GTINs, price and availability, the product feed). ## Original research - [State of AI Shopping Readiness 2026](https://caffeinecommerce.com/reports/shopify-ai-readiness-benchmark): Original study of 2,704 live Shopify storefronts scored on how readable they are to AI shopping assistants, with per-vertical benchmarks across 12 categories, the methodology, and full percentile curves. ## Blog Hands-on Shopify development guides, focused on Shopify Liquid, Shopify Scripts (Shopify Plus), structured data, and getting stores found by AI agents. ## Proof - [How we practice what we check](https://joinagentready.com/proof): Real AI-readiness scans of our own properties, gaps included, with a live re-scan. - [AgentReady Labs](https://joinagentready.com/labs): Owned sites we run through AgentReady exactly as a customer would, with every change and measurement published. - [SprueSentry](https://joinagentready.com/labs/spruesentry): Lab site (spruesentry.com) run through AgentReady in public. - [GrailHawk](https://joinagentready.com/labs/grailhawk): Lab site (grailhawk.com) run through AgentReady in public. - [ShelfHound](https://joinagentready.com/labs/shelfhound): Lab site (getshelfhound.com) run through AgentReady in public. - [AgentReady](https://joinagentready.com/labs/agentready): Lab site (joinagentready.com) run through AgentReady in public. - [William Painter](https://joinagentready.com/labs/williampainter): Lab site (williampainter.com) run through AgentReady in public. ## Indexes - [Blog index](https://caffeinecommerce.com/blog): All published guides. - [Documentation](https://caffeinecommerce.com/docs): How to use AgentReady, from setup to the readiness score, structured data, AI discovery files, and billing. - [Agentic commerce glossary](https://caffeinecommerce.com/glossary): Plain definitions of agentic commerce, llms.txt, structured data, GEO, AI Overviews, MCP, and related terms. - [Projects index](https://caffeinecommerce.com/projects): All case studies. - [Tools index](https://caffeinecommerce.com/tools): All free tools. ## Optional - [Agents guide (agents.md)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/agents.md): Short orientation for AI agents and LLMs, what this site is, who it is for, and the canonical URLs to read. - [Long-form content (llms-full.txt)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/llms-full.txt): Marketing summary in one document. - [Sitemap (XML)](https://caffeinecommerce.com/sitemap.xml): Full machine-readable URL list. - [Sitemap index](https://caffeinecommerce.com/sitemap_index.xml): Both the agency site and the AgentReady product site. - [Robots](https://caffeinecommerce.com/robots.txt): Crawler policy (allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended). - [Product peer site](https://joinagentready.com/llms.txt): AgentReady product marketing llms.txt.