Is your product recommended by ChatGPT?

Shoppers increasingly ask ChatGPT what to buy — “What's the best mineral sunscreen for sensitive skin?”, “Best wireless earbuds under ₹5,000?” — instead of scrolling a marketplace. The products ChatGPT names in that answer are the new shelf, and brands that don't appear lose the sale before the shopper ever reaches a storefront.

This free tool tells you where you stand: it asks ChatGPT the shopping questions your buyers actually ask — with live web browsing, localized to your market — and shows whether your brand is recommended, your share of voice, and the competitor products ChatGPT recommends instead.

How the ChatGPT Shopping Visibility Checker works

1. Detect your store. One read-only homepage fetch identifies your brand, the specific product category shoppers search for, and your primary market.
2. Build shopping questions.We generate the “best [category]” style buyer questions a shopper would ask, localized to your market and use cases.
3. Ask ChatGPT with live browsing. Each question goes to ChatGPT with its web_search tool enabled and your market as the location, so answers reflect what it surfaces on the live web now.
4. Analyze the recommendations. We detect whether your brand appears, in what position, your share of voice, and rank the competitor products named instead.

From a snapshot to continuous share of shelf

This tool is a one-time snapshot for a single category. To track the actual AI shopping shelf over time — products, prices, and placement at SKU level across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and more, tied to clicks and revenue — see Siftly Shopping. You can also improve the signals ChatGPT uses with our free llms.txt Generator and AI Crawler Audit.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the ChatGPT Shopping Visibility Checker do?

It checks whether ChatGPT recommends your products when a shopper asks what to buy in your category. We detect your product category and market from your homepage, ask ChatGPT a set of 'best [category]' style shopping questions with live web browsing, and report whether your brand is recommended, your share of voice, your average position, and the competitor products named instead.

How does it query ChatGPT?

We send shopping-intent questions to ChatGPT with its live web_search tool enabled, localized to your store's market. That means the answers reflect what ChatGPT surfaces when it browses the web right now — not just its training data. Note: this is ChatGPT with web browsing, not the exact in-app ChatGPT shopping carousel; for that level of fidelity and continuous tracking, see Siftly's paid Shopping product.

Why isn't my product recommended?

Common causes: weak or missing product/structured data, few third-party mentions in review sites and buying guides ChatGPT trusts, thin category and comparison content, or being newer than the sources ChatGPT surfaces. The competitor leaderboard shows who is being recommended so you can see what to close the gap against.

Is this the same as 'share of shelf'?

It's the free, one-shot version of it. Share of shelf is the percentage of AI shopping recommendations your brand captures for a category. This tool gives you a snapshot for one category; Siftly's paid Shopping product tracks share of shelf continuously at SKU level across multiple AI engines and ties it to clicks and revenue.

Does running this change anything on my store?

No. We perform one read-only homepage GET to detect your brand and category, then query ChatGPT — we never crawl your store deeply or write anything. The analysis happens on ChatGPT's end.

How is this different from Siftly's paid Shopping product?

The free tool runs a small sample of shopping questions for one category as a one-time snapshot. Siftly Shopping tracks the actual AI shopping shelf continuously — products, prices, and placement — at SKU level across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and more, monitors changes over time, and connects AI visibility to clicks and revenue.

Queries made to ChatGPT with live web browsing via the OpenAI API. Rate limits apply. Results are a directional sample — ChatGPT with web browsing, not the in-app shopping carousel — and can vary between runs.