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AI Retrieval & Commerce Intelligence

Does AI Know Your Brand Well Enough to Recommend It?

RetrieveAI audits how AI systems understand, retrieve, and represent your brand and tells you exactly what to fix to show up when it matters.

RetrieveAI — Overview dashboard showing AI Visibility Score, Entity Strength, and Retrieval Coverage

Search rank and AI visibility are two different things.

Most brands are optimising for the wrong signal. Here's what that looks like in practice.

❌ Without RetrieveAI
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You rank #1 on Google for your main category keyword.

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A user asks ChatGPT: "What's the best [your product] right now?"

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Your brand isn't mentioned. Three competitors are.

You have no idea why or what to change.

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✅ With RetrieveAI
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Your brand scores 38 / 100 on AI Visibility. Three competitors are above 70.

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The audit surfaces exactly which pages are missing structured data, unclear entity signals, and content gaps.

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You get a ranked list of fixes ordered by impact on your AI Visibility Score.

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Next audit, you see the score move. You know it's real because the system is deterministic.

Platform Interface

Screens from RetrieveAI showing how retrieval scoring, scope management, and commerce intelligence surface across the audit experience.

RetrieveAI Screen 1 — Overview and AI Visibility dashboard with composite scoring and audit job status
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Overview & AI Visibility

Main dashboard showing AI Visibility Score, Entity Strength, and Retrieval Coverage as normalized 0–100 scores. Audit status and recent run history surfaced at a glance.

RetrieveAI Screen 2 — Snapshot and Volatility tracking panel with score delta visualization across audit runs
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Snapshot & Volatility Tracking

Score change tracking across audit runs over time. Surfaces which dimensions are stable and which shift enabling targeted, evidence-based content decisions.

RetrieveAI Screen 3 — URL Discovery and Scope selection panel with crawl depth controls and scope type assignment
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URL Discovery & Scope Selection

URL discovery and scope selection interface. Maps site structure into auditable surfaces before scoring begins from single pages to full-site coverage.

RetrieveAI Screen 4 — Commerce Layer audit panel with purchase-intent signal density and product catalog intelligence scoring
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Commerce Layer Audit

Commerce readiness layer showing how well a site's product infrastructure is positioned for AI-driven discovery and agentic interaction.

What RetrieveAI Measures

Six dimensions that together give you a complete picture of how AI systems see your brand and where the gaps are.

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AI Visibility Score

Measures how prominently a brand surfaces when users ask AI systems relevant questions. Produces a normalized 0–100 score across the audited scope.

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Entity Strength Score

Evaluates how clearly and consistently a brand is represented as a named entity across structured data, content context, and AI-accessible signals.

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Retrieval Coverage Engine

Maps all auditable surfaces product pages, category clusters, FAQs and verifies each is correctly structured and accessible for AI retrieval.

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Structured Clarity Audit

Validates schema markup completeness and structured data quality ensuring pages communicate clearly to AI systems during indexing and retrieval.

Prompt Simulation Engine

Simulates the real queries users ask AI systems against your content identifying where coverage is strong, where gaps exist, and where the brand is missing entirely.

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Agentic Commerce Readiness

Audits whether a commerce site's infrastructure is ready for AI agent interaction without executing any transactions. Read-only, non-transactional assessment.

Audits That Focus on What Actually Matters

You choose the scope one page, a cluster of pages, a whole category, or the full site. RetrieveAI then runs a targeted audit at exactly that depth. No noise, no wasted cost, no overwhelming report.

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Finds What's There

Automatically discovers all the pages within your chosen scope before any scoring begins so nothing gets missed.

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Groups Related Pages

Related pages are grouped before scoring, so signals across a category or topic are understood together not in isolation.

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You Control the Depth

Pick the scope that matches your question. Auditing a product launch? One page. Auditing a whole category? Full category mode. The depth is always your call.

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Builds Up Layer by Layer

Basic signals are checked first, deeper analysis runs after. Each stage only runs when the previous one has passed so results are always grounded in validated data.

single_page context_cluster ✦ recommended category full_site
Scope context_cluster · 6 URLs
URL Retrieval Audit Results
/products/ai-engine94
/solutions/commerce88
/about/brand-entity71
/faq/ai-retrieval65
/catalog/products48
/blog/llm-context77
Context Bundle Health
78%
2 URLs require structured data enrichment before simulation dispatch.

Built With Defensive Engineering.

Reliability built into the engine from day one not added as an afterthought once problems appeared.

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Reliable Audit Pipeline

Every audit runs as an ordered sequence of stages. If one step fails, the system recovers gracefully partial progress is preserved and the audit can resume rather than restart from scratch.

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Fault Isolation

If one external service has a problem, it doesn't bring the whole audit down. Each component fails independently and recovers automatically audits complete even under degraded conditions.

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No Silent Failures

Every operation has a time limit. If something takes too long, partial results are saved and flagged nothing is silently dropped or lost. You always know what ran and what didn't.

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Safe Parallel Audits

Multiple audits can run at the same time without corrupting each other's results. Concurrency is managed at the database level scores are always accurate, never mixed up across jobs.

Smart Re-Auditing

When you re-run an audit, unchanged pages don't get re-processed. Only what's new or different is re-scored making repeat audits fast and cost-efficient.

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Scores You Can Trust

Every AI query runs under controlled, reproducible conditions. If your score changes between two audits, it's because your content changed not because the AI responded differently that day.

The Retrieval Intelligence Pipeline

A structured, multi-stage pipeline each stage building on validated output from the last. Enter a URL, get a complete picture of how AI systems see your brand.

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URL Discovery
Sitemap + Crawl
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Scope Selection
4 Scope Types
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Context Bundle
Semantic Clustering
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Crawl & Extract
Multi-vendor Crawl
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Prompt Intelligence
Query Generation
Simulation
Deterministic LLM
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Scoring
Multi-Dimension
Recommendations
Ranked & Typed
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Agentic Commerce
Infrastructure Audit

AI Agents Can't Click. RetrieveAI Checks What They Actually See.

Most audit tools read a page the same way a browser does fully rendered. But AI crawlers don't execute JavaScript. RetrieveAI runs a three-layer JS dependency audit that no existing tool does.

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Rendering Gap Detection

Compares the raw HTML a server sends with the fully rendered DOM. Surfaces content that only exists after JavaScript runs invisible to AI crawlers that don't execute JS.

Phase 3.5
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Interaction Dependency Audit

Simulates user clicks on accordions, tabs, dropdowns, and variant selectors. Detects product information, pricing, and content that's hidden until a user interacts content AI agents will never see.

Phase 3.6
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Navigation Crawlability Score

Scores how well an AI agent can navigate a site without JavaScript checking whether filters use real URLs, whether search forms work without JS, and whether pagination is in the HTML.

Phase 3.7
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Why this matters for commerce: If your variant prices, product descriptions, or filter URLs only load after a JS interaction, AI shopping agents can't read them regardless of how good your SEO is.

Powered By

Each tool chosen for a specific reason reliability, AI compatibility, or capability that generic defaults cannot provide.

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Node.js
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React / Next.js
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PostgreSQL
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OpenAI
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Anthropic
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Playwright
🕷️
Firecrawl
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Bright Data
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Perplexity
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ValueSERP

Engineering Decisions That Matter

A few of the architectural choices that make the system reliable, accurate, and genuinely different from simpler approaches.

🔁 Hybrid Retrieval Scoring

  • Coverage scoring uses a two-pass hybrid: Jaccard similarity for lexical matching, OpenAI embeddings for semantic understanding
  • Top-K optimisation: only the top candidates from the first pass are embedded keeping API cost bounded regardless of corpus size
  • Weights are configurable — Jaccard stays dominant to preserve explainability of why a score changed
  • If embeddings are unavailable, the system degrades gracefully to lexical-only audits never abort

🔀 Multi-Vendor Crawl Architecture

  • Three crawl vendors in priority order: Firecrawl → Bright Data → Playwright headless
  • Each vendor has an isEnabled() guard safely disabled without code changes
  • Raw HTML and rendered DOM are both saved per page enabling the JS rendering gap audit to diff them
  • Firecrawl returns cleaned markdown alongside HTML better extraction for content-heavy pages

🧠 Multi-Model LLM Layer

  • OpenAI gpt-4o-mini as the primary model across all four LLM phases
  • Anthropic Claude used for brand perception when key is configured cross-model comparison built in
  • Perplexity (online models) enriches brand monitoring with live citation data from the real web
  • All LLM calls run through a shared circuit breaker and retry layer vendor failures are isolated

🏗️ 22-Phase Deterministic Pipeline

  • Every audit runs 22 ordered phases each phase checks for completion before executing (crash-safe resume)
  • Hard-fail phases stop the audit; soft-fail phases log and continue audit always produces partial results
  • A single concurrency slot system (PostgreSQL-backed) prevents parallel audits from racing on shared state
  • Slot release is guaranteed via a try/finally pattern no orphaned locks even on unexpected crashes

When someone asks an AI to recommend something, is your brand in the answer?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity to recommend a product, compare services, or find a solution the AI pulls from what it knows and what it can retrieve. Your search ranking doesn't matter inside that process.

Analytics tools measure what happens after someone clicks. SEO tools measure where you rank in search results. Neither one answers the more important question: does the AI even consider your brand when forming its answer?

RetrieveAI was built to answer that question with structured audits, controlled AI simulation, and scoring that tells you exactly where you stand and what to do about it.

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People Are Searching Differently

More and more, people ask AI systems instead of typing into a search bar. If your brand isn't well-represented in how AI understands your category, you're invisible in that channel.

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SEO Doesn't Fix This

A brand can rank #1 in Google and still be missing from AI-generated answers. The signals that matter for AI retrieval are different from the ones that drive search rankings and most brands have no visibility into them.

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Determinism Is Non-Negotiable for Scoring

Without controlled, reproducible scoring, changes between audit runs could reflect model randomness rather than real content changes. Determinism is what makes progress measurable.

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Focus Beats Volume

Most AI retrieval problems are concentrated on a handful of pages or content areas. Auditing what matters not everything gives you faster, clearer answers and more actionable next steps.

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Results You Can Rely On

The engine is built to be consistent audits don't fail silently, scores don't fluctuate randomly, and re-running the same audit produces the same results. Trustworthy data drives better decisions.

Before and After an Audit

This is what shifts when you have actual data on your AI retrievability.

Before

No idea whether AI systems mention your brand in relevant responses

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Can't tell if content changes are helping or hurting AI visibility

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Competitors show up in AI answers you don't know why

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Publishing content without knowing if it's structured for AI retrieval

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Product pages live behind JavaScript AI agents can't read the data

After
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A score for every dimension — AI Visibility, Entity Strength, Retrieval Coverage, Commerce Readiness

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Ranked recommendations — exactly what to fix, in what order, with estimated impact

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Trend tracking — re-run audits and see scores move as content improves

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Gap map — every question AI systems might ask about your brand, matched to your content coverage

Commerce audit — know exactly which product surfaces are and aren't AI-agent ready

Choose Your Audit Scope

Not every audit needs to crawl an entire website. RetrieveAI lets you target exactly what matters from a single product page to your whole site. Each scope level is tuned for a different use case, depth, and budget.

single_page

Single Page

One page. Perfect for auditing a key landing page, product page, or hero content before a launch or campaign.

Page Cap1 URL
Queries Simulated5–10 AI queries
Cross-page signalsSingle page only
Commerce LayerNot included
CostLowest
category

Category

An entire section of your site including sub-pages, filters, and listing pages. Good for commerce categories or content hubs.

Page Cap25–150 URLs
Queries Simulated50–100 AI queries
Cross-page signalsCategory + sub-pages
Commerce LayerIncluded
CostModerate
full_site

Full Site

Your entire website. The most comprehensive view of how AI systems understand your brand across every surface.

Page CapUnlimited
Queries Simulated100–500+ AI queries
Cross-page signalsFull site coverage
Commerce LayerIncluded
CostHighest
Scope AI Visibility Score Entity Strength Cross-page Analysis Commerce Readiness Snapshot Tracking
single_page Partial
context_cluster
category
full_site

Frequently Asked Questions

Architecture and design decisions explained clearly.

Is this an SEO tool?01

No. SEO tools optimize for search engine rankings crawl coverage, backlink authority, keyword density. RetrieveAI audits how LLMs retrieve and represent a brand inside generative inference. These are architecturally distinct problems requiring different instrumentation and different remediation paths.

How is retrieval different from ranking?02

Ranking measures position in a results list. Retrieval measures whether a brand is included in an AI-generated response at all. A brand can rank highly in search and still be invisible to AI systems. RetrieveAI measures retrieval directly not as a proxy of search performance.

Why scoped audits instead of full-site always?03

Full-site sweeps generate a lot of noise and cost. Most retrieval problems are concentrated on specific pages or intent areas. Scoped audits surface higher-quality signals faster, at lower cost, with clearer remediation paths.

Why deterministic LLM scoring?04

Without reproducible scoring conditions, a change in score between two audit runs might reflect model randomness rather than a real content change. Determinism ensures that score changes mean something the content changed, not the measurement conditions.

Does RetrieveAI execute transactions or process payments?05

No. The Agentic Commerce layer is strictly an infrastructure audit. It validates whether a commerce system is structurally ready for AI-agent interaction but does not perform checkout, payment execution, inventory locking, or financial transactions.

Who is RetrieveAI for?06

Anyone who wants to understand how AI systems represent their brand. That includes marketers who want to know if they're showing up in AI-generated recommendations, ecommerce teams checking if product pages are AI-readable, and agencies looking for a new kind of audit to offer clients.

What does a score actually tell me?07

A score of 80+ means your brand is well-represented AI systems can retrieve, understand, and cite your content reliably. A score below 50 means there are meaningful gaps: missing structured data, unclear entity signals, or content that AI systems struggle to interpret. Every score comes with specific recommendations for what to fix.

The RetrieveAI Audit Pipeline

RetrieveAI runs a structured, multi-phase audit pipeline each phase building on the last to produce a complete picture of AI retrievability and commerce readiness.

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Step 1 — Find Every Page

Discovers and classifies all relevant URLs on the target site building the inventory that every subsequent phase operates on.

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Step 2 — Group Related Pages

Groups related pages into coherent contexts ensuring cross-page signals are captured together and the audit scope matches the actual intent surface being measured.

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Step 3 — Read the Content

Crawls and extracts content from each URL in scope structured data, headings, body text, and metadata preparing it for analysis and scoring.

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Step 4 — Generate Real AI Queries

Generates the set of real queries users might ask AI systems about the audited brand building the prompt universe that drives simulation and gap detection.

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Step 5 — Simulate AI Retrieval

Simulates how AI systems respond to the prompt universe against the audited content identifying what's retrieved, what's missed, and where coverage is weak.

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Step 6 — Score Every Dimension

Combines all signals from prior phases into normalized 0–100 scores AI Visibility, Entity Strength, Retrieval Coverage with per-URL and per-cluster breakdowns.

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Step 7 — Generate Recommendations

Translates scoring gaps into ranked, actionable recommendations showing exactly what to improve and in what order to move the score.

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Step 8 — Track Changes Over Time

Tracks score changes across audit runs over time surfacing regressions, confirming improvements, and attributing score shifts to specific content changes.

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Step 9 — Commerce Readiness Audit

Audits whether a site's commerce infrastructure is structurally ready for AI agent interaction. Read-only, non-transactional assessment only, no actions taken.

Built by Akshay Dahiya

Built as a Portfolio Project.
Engineered to Production Standard.

RetrieveAI is a fully engineered platform 22-phase backend pipeline, multi-vendor crawl architecture, hybrid semantic scoring, and a complete Next.js frontend. Built independently to demonstrate what's possible at the intersection of AI infrastructure and marketing intelligence.

If you're working on retrieval infrastructure, AI visibility tooling, or post-search commerce systems this architecture may be relevant to your work.