{
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31",
  "methodology": "The compared dimensions are the capability dimensions of SPHEN.AI's current workflow; competitors are scored against those same dimensions using public information reviewed at the dates shown. SPHEN.AI entries describe current capabilities from its product context. Competitor entries are confirmed only when present in the public source reviewed. Not listed does not mean absent. Coverage counts are equal-weight measures of breadth, not universal quality scores. `lastUpdated` is when this comparison set was last changed; each competitor's own `checkedAt` is when that entry was last verified.",
  "sphen": {
    "name": "SPHEN.AI",
    "slug": "sphen-ai",
    "category": "Shopify SEO + GEO workflow",
    "availability": "live",
    "sourceUrl": "https://sphen.ai/llms-full.txt",
    "summary": "SPHEN.AI combines Shopify catalog audits, field-level drafts, merchant review, approved writeback, catalog-driven content, structured data, and AI visibility analytics.",
    "features": {
      "audit": true,
      "content": true,
      "review": true,
      "schema": true,
      "technical": true,
      "llms": true,
      "insights": true,
      "prompts": true,
      "attribution": true,
      "blog": true,
      "workflow": true,
      "feeds": true
    }
  },
  "competitors": [
    {
      "slug": "booster-ai-seo-optimizer",
      "name": "BOOSTER AI SEO + AEO OPTIMIZER",
      "handle": "booster-apps-seo-optimizer",
      "category": "SEO and image performance",
      "summary": "Focuses on page-load performance, image compression, redirects, meta/alt-text optimization, and rich-snippet structured data for Google and AI search.",
      "features": {
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/booster-apps-seo-optimizer",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "tiny-seo-speed-image-optimizer",
      "name": "Tiny SEO Speed Image Optimizer",
      "handle": "smart-image-optimizer",
      "category": "All-in-one SEO and performance",
      "summary": "Audits SEO and speed, optimizes images and metadata, adds JSON-LD, manages redirects, publishes llms.txt/agents.md, and builds AI blogs.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "blog": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-optimizer",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "seolab-ai-seo",
      "name": "SEOLab: All in #1 SEO - AI SEO",
      "handle": "seolab",
      "category": "All-in-one SEO",
      "summary": "Audits stores, fixes SEO issues, improves speed, optimizes alt text and structured data, publishes llms.txt, and targets AI-search discovery.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/seolab",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "seowill-ai-seo",
      "name": "SEOWILL: AI SEO & AI Blog Post",
      "handle": "seo-master",
      "category": "SEO suite and content creation",
      "summary": "Positions itself as an AI SEO and GEO workflow: audits, on-page fixes, speed tools, structured data, llms.txt, AI blogs, and result tracking in one loop.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "blog": true,
        "workflow": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/seo-master",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "tapita-ai-seo-optimizer",
      "name": "Tapita AI SEO Optimizer, Speed",
      "handle": "google-seo-schema-meta-data",
      "category": "SEO and page speed",
      "summary": "Focuses on one-click SEO/GEO improvements: onpage audits, meta data, LLMs.txt, schemas, AI blogs, and page speed.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "blog": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sherpas-smart-seo",
      "name": "Smart SEO AI & Image Optimizer",
      "handle": "smart-seo",
      "category": "SEO automation",
      "summary": "Uses AI tools and automation for store SEO audits, search rankings, structured data, and page speed.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/smart-seo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "avada-ai-seo-image-optimizer",
      "name": "Avada AI SEO Image Optimizer",
      "handle": "avada-seo-suite",
      "category": "All-in-one SEO and performance",
      "summary": "Audits SEO, fixes issues, improves speed, and uses AI to optimize store content.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/avada-seo-suite",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "searchpie-seo-speed-schema",
      "name": "SearchPie: SEO, Speed & Schema",
      "handle": "seo-booster",
      "category": "SEO, speed, and schema",
      "summary": "Combines SEO checks, page-speed work, schema, and organic visibility for Google and AI search.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/seo-booster",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "webrex-schema-aeo-ai-seo",
      "name": "Webrex: AI SEO, Schema JSON-LD",
      "handle": "webrex-seo-schema",
      "category": "Structured data",
      "summary": "Specializes in product, FAQ, review, shipping, returns, and multi-market schema for Google and AI search.",
      "features": {
        "schema": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/webrex-seo-schema",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "storeseo-image-optimizer",
      "name": "StoreSEO SEO & Image Optimizer",
      "handle": "storeseo",
      "category": "SEO and image optimization",
      "summary": "Offers AI content generation, AI blog publishing, llms.txt and agents.md, local SEO, schema, image alt text, sitemaps, and image optimization.",
      "features": {
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "blog": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/storeseo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "yoast-seo-store-optimization",
      "name": "Yoast SEO - Store optimization",
      "handle": "yoast-seo",
      "category": "On-page SEO",
      "summary": "Guides content optimization for organic traffic, handles technical SEO basics, and generates an llms.txt for AI systems.",
      "features": {
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/yoast-seo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "webrex-seo-audit-optimizer",
      "name": "Webrex: SEO Audit Optimizer",
      "handle": "webrex-technical-seo",
      "category": "Technical SEO audit",
      "summary": "Audits metadata, social previews, AMP, crawling, localization, security, and other technical SEO areas.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "technical": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/webrex-technical-seo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "kedra-ai-index",
      "name": "Kedra AI Index: AEO Visibility",
      "handle": "kedra-ai-index",
      "category": "AI readiness and traffic",
      "summary": "Generates llms.txt and agents.md, checks AI readiness, tracks prompt rankings across AI models, and tracks AI visits and revenue by source.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "attribution": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/kedra-ai-index",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wranks-seo-ai-visibility",
      "name": "SEO & AI Visibility - wRanks",
      "handle": "seo-optimizer-ai-geo-suite",
      "category": "SEO and AI visibility",
      "summary": "Combines AI content, bulk optimization, keyword tracking, blog writing, structured data, and AI visibility.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "blog": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/seo-optimizer-ai-geo-suite",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ba-ai-visibility-traffic",
      "name": "BA: AI Visibility & AI Traffic",
      "handle": "ai-visibility-llms-txt",
      "category": "llms.txt and AI discovery",
      "summary": "Generates llms.txt to help Shopify stores become discoverable by major AI assistants.",
      "features": {
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/ai-visibility-llms-txt",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "magicgeo-ai-sales-optimization",
      "name": "MagicGEO GEO AI Optimization",
      "handle": "magicgeo",
      "category": "GEO and AI discovery",
      "summary": "One-click product-level GEO optimization: schema injection, meta descriptions, llms.txt, plus AI share-of-voice and competitor tracking.",
      "features": {
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/magicgeo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "indexgpt-ai-seo",
      "name": "IndexGPT: AI SEO for ChatGPT",
      "handle": "index-gpt",
      "category": "AI indexing",
      "summary": "Scores stores with an AI action plan, generates content and schema, tracks AI prompts and brand sentiment, and writes AI blogs.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "blog": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/index-gpt",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "airise-ai-visibility-seo",
      "name": "AIrise: AI Visibility & SEO",
      "handle": "airise-ai-visibility-seo",
      "category": "AI readiness",
      "summary": "Scans what AI crawlers see (AI Visibility Score), publishes llms.txt and structured data, and manages AI crawler permissions without code.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/airise-ai-visibility-seo",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wprobo-ai-search-visibility",
      "name": "WPRobo AI Search Visibility",
      "handle": "ai-search-visibility",
      "category": "AI audit and citation tracking",
      "summary": "Scans how AI systems read a store, fixes blockers, publishes llms.txt and structured data, and tracks citations.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "review": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/ai-search-visibility",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "vizby-geo-aeo-agents",
      "name": "Vizby: GEO & AEO for ChatGPT",
      "handle": "ai-blog-post-generator-1",
      "category": "Autonomous AI visibility optimization",
      "summary": "Plan-tiered AI-agent suite: finds and fixes blockers with approve-or-auto-apply, JSON-LD, AGENTS.md, prompt tests, competitor patterns, and blog posts.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "review": true,
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "blog": true,
        "workflow": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/ai-blog-post-generator-1",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "arenza-chatgpt-ai-geo-seo",
      "name": "Arenza: ChatGPT AI GEO & SEO",
      "handle": "arenza-ai-search-sales",
      "category": "AI rankings and attribution",
      "summary": "Tracks how AI search ranks products, attributes orders from AI traffic, and recommends visibility fixes.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "attribution": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/arenza-ai-search-sales",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "gptlab-get-found-by-ai",
      "name": "GPTLab - Get Found by AI",
      "handle": "gptlab",
      "category": "AI readiness and traffic insights",
      "summary": "Combines llms.txt, JSON-LD, IndexNow, robots checks, outreach, and GA4 AI-traffic insights.",
      "features": {
        "schema": true,
        "technical": true,
        "llms": true,
        "attribution": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/gptlab",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "citewise-ai-visibility-geo",
      "name": "Citewise: AI Visibility & GEO",
      "handle": "citewise",
      "category": "Prompt tracking and page improvement",
      "summary": "Tests buyer questions, tracks brand and competitor mentions, audits product pages, and publishes llms.txt and structured data.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "schema": true,
        "llms": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/citewise",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "avada-aeo-optimizer-llms-txt",
      "name": "Avada AEO SEO Optimizer LLMs",
      "handle": "aeo-llms-txt",
      "category": "AEO and llms.txt",
      "summary": "Generates and hosts llms.txt/llms-full.txt/agents.md, controls which AI bots read the store, and schedules automatic updates.",
      "features": {
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/aeo-llms-txt",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "llms-txt-ai-visibility",
      "name": "LLMs.txt - AI Visibility",
      "handle": "llms-txt-ai-visibility",
      "category": "llms.txt generation",
      "summary": "Generates an llms.txt file intended to help AI assistants discover and recommend a Shopify store.",
      "features": {
        "llms": true
      },
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/llms-txt-ai-visibility",
      "sourceKind": "app-store",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wild-card-ai",
      "name": "Wildcard",
      "category": "E-commerce AEO platform",
      "sourceKind": "website",
      "sourceUrl": "https://wild-card.ai",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31",
      "summary": "Tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Walmart Sparky, and Alexa for Shopping (Amazon Rufus in beta), with prompt tracking against real search volume, product catalog enrichment with buyer-intent attributes and provider-format outputs, content agents for product, collection, blog, PR, Reddit, and YouTube briefs with human approval and Shopify publishing, AI revenue attribution with first-click and last-click models, sentiment analysis, share of voice, an ACP/UCP instant-checkout beta, higher-tier API access, and integrations beyond Shopify including BigCommerce, Salesforce, WooCommerce, Akeneo, and Salsify. Pricing is $99/month (Basic) plus custom Enterprise, with a flat per-action credit system.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "review": true,
        "schema": true,
        "insights": true,
        "prompts": true,
        "attribution": true,
        "blog": true,
        "workflow": true,
        "feeds": true
      }
    },
    {
      "slug": "glara-ai",
      "name": "Glara",
      "category": "AI visibility and revenue attribution platform",
      "sourceKind": "website",
      "sourceUrl": "https://glara.ai",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-31",
      "summary": "Monitors brand mentions and product recommendations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok; audits catalogs to show why products are missing from AI answers; generates fixes for product descriptions, structured data, FAQs, and meta tags with vertical semantic layers for fashion, beauty, and FMCG; and connects AI visibility to per-product revenue through your store, Google Analytics, and Shopify Analytics integrations. Plans start at $120/month on annual billing for 20 tracked products.",
      "features": {
        "audit": true,
        "content": true,
        "review": true,
        "schema": true,
        "insights": true,
        "attribution": true,
        "workflow": true
      }
    }
  ],
  "features": [
    {
      "key": "audit",
      "label": "Deep technical and catalog analysis",
      "description": "Finds technical, content, entity, crawlability, and catalog-data issues across the Shopify store."
    },
    {
      "key": "content",
      "label": "Product and page content optimization",
      "description": "Creates or improves merchant-facing product, collection, or page content."
    },
    {
      "key": "review",
      "label": "Merchant review before publishing",
      "description": "Keeps a human approval step before supported changes are published."
    },
    {
      "key": "schema",
      "label": "Structured data or schema",
      "description": "Publishes or manages structured data for search and AI systems."
    },
    {
      "key": "technical",
      "label": "Technical SEO and performance tools",
      "description": "Covers areas such as speed, redirects, metadata, crawling, or images."
    },
    {
      "key": "llms",
      "label": "AI-readiness files (llms.txt or agents.md)",
      "description": "Creates AI-readiness files such as llms.txt or agents.md. Some apps publish these automatically; others hand off a draft for the merchant to publish."
    },
    {
      "key": "insights",
      "label": "AI visibility and competitor insights",
      "description": "Shows where the brand appears, which competitors win, and what should improve next."
    },
    {
      "key": "prompts",
      "label": "Real AI prompt tracking",
      "description": "Tracks buyer questions through model APIs, direct chat capture, or comparable live-answer methods."
    },
    {
      "key": "attribution",
      "label": "AI traffic or order attribution",
      "description": "Connects AI assistant traffic to sessions, conversions, or Shopify orders — for example through order-derived AI revenue by assistant from first-party Shopify order data, or through a web-analytics pixel."
    },
    {
      "key": "blog",
      "label": "SEO and GEO article creation",
      "description": "Creates long-form content around search demand and real buying questions."
    },
    {
      "key": "workflow",
      "label": "Unified optimize-track-create workflow",
      "description": "Combines optimization, AI visibility measurement, and content creation."
    },
    {
      "key": "feeds",
      "label": "AI provider product feed exports",
      "description": "Publishes catalog data in AI-provider feed formats, such as OpenAI product feeds, JSON-LD product exports, or a dedicated llms-products.txt file."
    }
  ]
}