A small studio, a narrow question.

StoreKnows is built by Invenire Studios, a small Australian software studio run by Arve Solland, and grew out of Analytics Agent, a Shopify analytics app. It exists because the questions specialist merchants answer every day, will it fit, which size, what is the difference, are now being asked of AI assistants, and the assistants often cannot see the product data that holds the answer.

How we test

A simulated check builds shopper questions from set templates filled with a store's own product details, records the reference answer those details support, then lets simulated shoppers on AI models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, the companies behind ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, answer those questions through the storefront tools Shopify provides on theme-based stores. A separate judge model grades each answer against its reference. The report records each answer, its saved reference and the model versions used.

What we publish, and how

• —Every figure carries its sample size, the models used, and the date it was run. Simulated checks call developer APIs, not the consumer apps, and do not predict what a consumer assistant will say to a real shopper.
• —We aggregate across stores by default and name a store only when the data we cite is already public on its storefront.
• —We never present invented conversations as real shopper evidence. Illustrative examples are labelled. We never alter screenshots to misrepresent a result or promise placement in any AI product.
• —Platform facts about Shopify's agentic features carry the date and the primary page they came from, and are re-checked when Shopify changes them.

StoreKnows is independently developed and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic or Shopify. Questions: support@storeknows.com.