# AI Commerce Watch

Source: https://aicommercewatch.com/

AI Commerce Watch covers the collision of AI systems and online retail: the crawlers reading your catalog, the agents starting to buy, and what both mean for merchants.

## Latest

## [The Merchant's Guide to AI Crawlers: Who Is Reading Your Catalog and Why](blog/ai-crawlers-storefront-guide.md)

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and a growing cast of AI crawlers now read ecommerce sites at scale. Some send shoppers back; some just take. A field guide to telling them apart.

## [When AI Agents Start Buying: What Agentic Checkout Means for Your Store](blog/ai-shopping-agents-checkout.md)

AI assistants are moving from recommending products to purchasing them. Agentic checkout changes fraud screening, attribution, and bot policy all at once.

## Quick answers

* [What are AI crawlers and why are they on my store?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/what-are-ai-crawlers.md)
* [Should I block AI crawlers from my ecommerce site?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/block-ai-crawlers.md)
* [What is GPTBot and does it send traffic?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/gptbot-what-is.md)
* [What is agentic commerce?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/agentic-commerce-meaning.md)
* [How do I see which AI crawlers visit my store?](https://aicommercewatch.com/answers/ai-crawler-detection.md)