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Percent of What? How an Entire Industry Quoted the Wrong Column for a Year
10 min read
AI & Agentic Commerce

Percent of What? How an Entire Industry Quoted the Wrong Column for a Year

Reddit is not 46.7% of Perplexity's citations. It is 6.6%. The bigger number is a different column of the same table, and the year it spent going unchallenged says more about how marketers handle numbers than it does about AI search.

Aziz BanihashemiAziz Banihashemi
#AEO#GEO#AI search
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Building an MCP Server for a Shopify App: A Practical Guide
6 min read
AI & Agentic Commerce

Building an MCP Server for a Shopify App: A Practical Guide

A hands-on walkthrough of exposing your Shopify app's logic to AI agents, with the design decisions that matter and the pitfalls that don't. Primary audience: Engineers and technical founders building...

Aspedan.devAspedan.dev
#mcps#ai#shopify
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Agent-Native Pricing: What Happens When Your Customer Is an LLM
5 min read
AI & Agentic Commerce

Agent-Native Pricing: What Happens When Your Customer Is an LLM

The pricing psychology that works on humans does not always work on agents. The ones that do are different, specific, and underused. Primary audience: Shopify merchants experimenting with AI channels,...

Aspedan.devAspedan.dev
#agentic-commerce#ecommerce#ai
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Sidekick Pulse vs. Third-Party Shopify Apps: Cooperate or Compete?
5 min read
AI & Agentic Commerce

Sidekick Pulse vs. Third-Party Shopify Apps: Cooperate or Compete?

Shopify's merchant-side AI can now create discounts. Apps that try to beat it at that will lose. Apps that let you call them will win. Primary audience: Founders of Shopify apps in the discount, bundl...

Aspedan.devAspedan.dev
#platform-strategy#saas#ai-assistant
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UCP, MCP, AP2, A2A, Explained for Merchants Who Don’t Code
6 min read
AI & Agentic Commerce

UCP, MCP, AP2, A2A, Explained for Merchants Who Don’t Code

The four protocols that will quietly decide which Shopify merchants show up in the AI shopping era, in plain language. Primary audience: Shopify merchants, non-technical founders, marketing leaders tr...

Aspedan.devAspedan.dev
#shopify#protocol#ecommerce
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