Measurement & delivery

Readiness checklist

Definition

The step-by-step audit a merchant or agency runs through — catalog, structured data, checkout, and content — before flipping on a Brand Agent in production.

Defined in The Agentic Commerce Glossary.

Where Readiness checklist comes up

The guides that put this term to work, rather than just defining it.

Related terms

Brand Agent: Microsoft's AI shopping agent for a merchant's own storefront, announced in January 2026 and installed through Microsoft Clarity plus Microsoft's waitlist — not a Shopify feature, and not limited to Shopify Plus. Brand Agents was in beta as of Microsoft's July 2026 documentation, for Shopify and WooCommerce sites.
Structured data: Markup embedded in a page, such as Product or FAQPage schema, that tells both search engines and AI assistants exactly what a piece of content is, rather than making them infer it.
White-label delivery: An arrangement where an agency sells agentic-commerce work under its own brand while a partner like GigaCommerce delivers the implementation behind the scenes.
Agentic Commerce Readiness Score: GigaCommerce's free 100-point, three-minute assessment that grades a merchant's catalog, structured data, and checkout readiness for Brand Agents and AI search.
QBR: A quarterly business review structured around agentic-commerce metrics specifically — citation rate, agent accuracy, TACOS — rather than generic traffic and conversion reporting.
Rule of thumb: How GigaCommerce labels a working heuristic from its own delivery work — a number we use to decide where to start, stated as such, never presented as a measured statistic.

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100 points across catalog, schema, product pages and checkout, with the three fixes that matter most.

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