Channel3 growth playbook

Add quality gates to the page template before more pages are generated. Only show samples whose brand field matches the page's brand (Nike Sport Bands belong on the Apple page). Prefer new, official items over resale unless the page says it includes resale. Show prices in one currency, or in USD with the original currency noted, and build the structured-data price range only from offers in that currency. If fewer than six clean samples remain, hide the grid and noindex the page. Fix the stray space in the brand block. Start with the top 200 brand pages by traffic, then roll the same rules out to retailer and category pages. Add a "Report a wrong product" link so brands and developers can flag errors, and send those flags into the dedupe and variant-matching work the new Backend Engineer is being hired for.

Each of these pages is a product demo, a search-engine landing page and the brand sales pitch ("Do you work at Nike?") all at once. A Nike marketer who sees Apple Watches presented as Nike's catalog will not join, and a developer comparing APIs judges data quality from the sample grid. With clean samples, every one of those thousands of pages argues for the product instead of against it.

[ ] Every sample's brand field equals the page brand
[ ] New, official items before resale (or the page says it includes resale)
[ ] One display currency per page
[ ] AggregateOffer built only from offers in that currency
[ ] At least six clean samples, or hide the grid and noindex
[ ] Brand block text fixed ("Nike's catalog")
[ ] Meta description says more than the category list
[ ] "Report a wrong product" link on every card

• Some pages end up with few samples

  Backfill from more offers before hiding the grid.

• Noindexing loses search traffic

  Only noindex pages with no clean samples, and watch Search Console.

• Your websiteNike brand page (checked twice, November 9, 2026): 8 of the 12 "Sample Nike products" are Apple Watch models linked to the Apple brand, and another is a "Vintage Womens Crew Neck Jumper"; visible prices mix £, CA$, € and $; the structured data gives one AggregateOffer in GBP from 17 to 595; the meta description is "Nike sells Fashion & Apparel and Sporting Goods."; the brand block reads "Join it once and Nike 's catalog becomes available to every assistant, search engine, and agent".Source
• Your websiteadidas brand page: of 12 sample products, one is a "Nashville Predators Leopard Pattern Tote" labelled "Logo Brands" and four "Gucci X Adidas" items are labelled Gucci (one "Gucci Pre-owned"); prices mix USD, CAD and GBP; the structured-data AggregateOffer says USD 45 to 1817, where the high price is a GBP item.Source
• Your websiteThin brand pages: /product-data/brands/bags ("Bags Product Data API") shows no sample products, only a code example and "Do you work at Bags?"; /product-data/brands/partner has the meta description "Partner sells Office Supplies." while its product titles say "Partners Brand".Source
• Your websiteBrands post (June 10, 2026): a test of three AI shopping engines found wrong sizes and colors, mismatched prices and an invented product name; "AI recommends from your structured product data, not your website."; cites 53% of shoppers abandoning a purchase over incorrect product data (Akeneo 2025); promotes a free listing, "a Premium Plan for scaling" and setup in about 10 minutes.Source
• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source

Define three numbers, each with a date: partner brands (signed up and set a commission), brands indexed in the graph, and retailers indexed. Use the same wording on every page, in llms.txt and the agents.md summaries, on the Shopify listing and in job posts. Do the same for freshness: say exactly how often prices and stock update, and for which sources.

Consistent numbers build trust with enterprise buyers, and they are what AI assistants repeat when someone asks about Channel3. When the numbers contradict each other, a summary turns them into doubt.

• The smaller number looks weaker

  Label both: "5,000+ partner brands, 25,000+ brands indexed".

• Your websiteHomepage: H1 "Where agents find products"; three paths: developers ("One API for 100M+ products"), brands ("Join 5,000+ brands") and enterprises ("Talk to us"); brand-partner logos Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, Staples and Fanatics; market stats such as "58% of consumers have used AI to shop" and "$3-5T projected agentic commerce revenue by 2030"; no testimonials or customer stories.Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source
• Your websiteEnterprises page: a conversational shopping agent, search, a "7.7% built-in network rate", insights and checkout "coming soon"; no named customers or testimonials; the uptime FAQ gives no SLA figures; "25,000+ retailers" in one place and "more than 25,000 brands" in the FAQ; the call to action is to talk it through with an AI assistant or "a human on the Channel3 team".Source
• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source
• Your websitellms.txt: agent-readable summaries for each audience page; a brand is indexed when it has a deep catalog (800+ products) or demonstrated search demand; product data is refreshed daily.Source

Confirm the current status and scope in the trust center, then write one sentence that says exactly that (for example, the report type and its date) and use it in every footer and on the enterprises page, linked to the trust center. If GDPR work is still open, say what is done and what isn't. Add a short security section to the enterprises page with a way to request the report.

Enterprise deals need one clear compliance answer. A contradiction on the vendor's own site adds a round of questions to every security review.

• Claiming more than the report covers

  Use the report's exact type and scope.

• Your websiteCompliance wording: the /product-search-api footer says "SOC 2 & GDPR compliance in progress", while the site's trust link reads "SOC 2 certified. Open the trust center." and the enterprises page lists SOC 2 certification and SSO/SAML as enterprise-ready features.Source
• Your websiteEnterprises page: a conversational shopping agent, search, a "7.7% built-in network rate", insights and checkout "coming soon"; no named customers or testimonials; the uptime FAQ gives no SLA figures; "25,000+ retailers" in one place and "more than 25,000 brands" in the FAQ; the call to action is to talk it through with an AI assistant or "a human on the Channel3 team".Source

Pick one page per category. Either merge the pair with a 301 redirect, or keep both with clearly different intent (the API page for "fashion product API" searches, the data page for browsing brands and subcategories) and a self-canonical on each. Rewrite every description in full, under about 155 characters. Fill in or remove the empty freshness stat, and replace "10" with the real number of brands.

Two near-identical pages split ranking signals, and cut-off descriptions lower click-through from search results.

• A short traffic dip after redirects

  Redirect one to one and watch Search Console weekly.

• Your websiteDuplicate category pages: /product-search-api/fashion ("Fashion & Apparel Product API") and /product-data/fashion ("Fashion & Apparel Product Data API") share one meta description that stops mid-word at "The Channel3 fashion produc", and neither shows a canonical tag; the /product-search-api page shows "10" under "Top brands tracked" and no value for "Data freshness".Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source
• PageSpeedHomepage (tested November 10, 2026): lab mobile score 96 (desktop 99), but real visitors fail Core Web Vitals on LCP (field LCP 2,970 ms; INP 146 ms and CLS 0.04 pass); field TTFB 1,740 ms; the LCP element is the cookie notice text ("We use cookies to operate our website…"); 5.1 MB page weight with about 3.8 MB of possible image savings and 0.5 s of render-blocking requests; SEO 85, flagging "robots.txt is not valid" and "Links do not have descriptive text".Source

Add a rule to the page generator: a page with zero (or too few) clean samples gets noindex and leaves the sitemap until it qualifies. Map generic slugs ("bags", "partner") to the real brand name, or fold them into the matching category. Give retailer pages a sample grid and a retailer-facing call to action. Pages return to the index automatically once they pass.

Thousands of empty pages can lower how search engines judge the whole site, and they give a visitor nothing to try. Fewer, fuller pages rank better and convert better.

• Losing long-tail traffic

  Keep the pages live for visitors; only remove them from the index.

• Your websiteThin brand pages: /product-data/brands/bags ("Bags Product Data API") shows no sample products, only a code example and "Do you work at Bags?"; /product-data/brands/partner has the meta description "Partner sells Office Supplies." while its product titles say "Partners Brand".Source
• Your websiteRetailer page /product-data/retailers/best-buy: no sample products; description "Best Buy pays up to 0.7% on sales."; every call to action is for developers, none for the retailer.Source
• Your websitellms.txt: agent-readable summaries for each audience page; a brand is indexed when it has a deep catalog (800+ products) or demonstrated search demand; product data is refreshed daily.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source

Ask every active brand on Shopify for an honest review, both in the dashboard and by personal email, timed after a week with clicks. Move the listing to the category that best fits a sales channel. Replace the screenshots with the brand dashboard: real shopper queries, publisher approval and SKU-level clicks and conversions. Link the listing from /brands.

Reviews and the right category drive App Store ranking and installs. The product is free, so the only friction is trust.

• Breaking App Store review rules

  Ask every active brand, never only the happy ones, and never offer incentives.

• Shopify App StoreShopify App Store listing "Channel3 – Get AI Sales" ("Show up on every AI platform"): launched March 27, 2025, free, "No reviews yet", listed under the "Metafields" category, English only.Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source

Add a "Compare" category to the blog index that shows all eight posts. Make /vs the hub, with a short table per rival, the live test and links to each post, and add it to the sitemap. Link the hub from the developers FAQ, which already names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi. Remove /bolt from the sitemap or bring the page back.

Comparison searches come from developers who are about to choose a tool. One hub collects the links and makes the strongest demo, a live side-by-side test, easy to find.

• Out-of-date claims about rivals

  Date every page and recheck each quarter.

• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source
• Your websiteBlog index (checked November 9, 2026): 14 posts, of which the only customer story is "We Taught folk to Shop in 10 Minutes"; it lists two comparison posts (Shopify Catalog, Tavily) while the sitemap has eight; the newest post (October 26, 2026) is about matching sizes before an agent buys.Source
• Your website/vs "Channel3 vs the open web": one shopping query sent at once to Channel3, Shopify Catalog, Exa, Parallel, Keenable and TinyFish, with four sample queries.Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source

Render the cookie notice in the first HTML so it paints at once, or make it smaller than the headline. Serve images as AVIF or WebP at display size and lazy-load everything below the fold. Inline the critical CSS and load the fonts without blocking. Cache the homepage HTML at the edge to cut the 1.7 s server response. Check Search Console's robots.txt report and adjust any line that crawlers reject, keeping the content signals the team intends.

Developers judge a speed-focused API by how fast its own site loads, and passing Core Web Vitals helps rankings. The fixes are mostly configuration.

• Consent must still come before tracking

  Change only how the notice renders, not the consent logic.

• PageSpeedHomepage (tested November 10, 2026): lab mobile score 96 (desktop 99), but real visitors fail Core Web Vitals on LCP (field LCP 2,970 ms; INP 146 ms and CLS 0.04 pass); field TTFB 1,740 ms; the LCP element is the cookie notice text ("We use cookies to operate our website…"); 5.1 MB page weight with about 3.8 MB of possible image savings and 0.5 s of render-blocking requests; SEO 85, flagging "robots.txt is not valid" and "Links do not have descriptive text".Source

Replace the block with a preview made from data Channel3 already has: products indexed, retailers carrying them, the commission currently offered, and the share of products with missing sizes, GTINs or prices. Add a "Claim this brand" button that opens onboarding with the brand pre-filled. Show the detailed issue list only after the brand claims the page. Fix the "Nike 's" spacing in the same release.

A brand's own numbers persuade far more than a generic pitch, and the page is already ranking for the brand's name. It turns thousands of SEO pages into a brand sales team.

• Brands dislike public lists of their data gaps

  Show only counts in public; details after claiming.

• #1 Fix the brand pages that show off the graph: 8 of 12 "Sample Nike products" are Apple Watches

• Your websiteNike brand page (checked twice, November 9, 2026): 8 of the 12 "Sample Nike products" are Apple Watch models linked to the Apple brand, and another is a "Vintage Womens Crew Neck Jumper"; visible prices mix £, CA$, € and $; the structured data gives one AggregateOffer in GBP from 17 to 595; the meta description is "Nike sells Fashion & Apparel and Sporting Goods."; the brand block reads "Join it once and Nike 's catalog becomes available to every assistant, search engine, and agent".Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteThin brand pages: /product-data/brands/bags ("Bags Product Data API") shows no sample products, only a code example and "Do you work at Bags?"; /product-data/brands/partner has the meta description "Partner sells Office Supplies." while its product titles say "Partners Brand".Source

Turn the test into a free tool. A brand enters its store URL; Channel3 checks the brand's products in its own graph against ten realistic prompts for the category and reports what's missing or wrong: sizes, colors, GTINs, prices, stock. It closes with a fix list and "Join free to fix this in 5 minutes". Use the report as the opener for outreach to brands that already have pages in the sitemap.

Brands can't see how agents read their data, and the report makes the problem specific to their own products. A free report also gives every outreach email a reason to exist.

• Testing third-party assistants breaks their terms

  Run checks on Channel3's own graph and the brand's public data only.

• Your websiteBrands post (June 10, 2026): a test of three AI shopping engines found wrong sizes and colors, mismatched prices and an invented product name; "AI recommends from your structured product data, not your website."; cites 53% of shoppers abandoning a purchase over incorrect product data (Akeneo 2025); promotes a free listing, "a Premium Plan for scaling" and setup in about 10 minutes.Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source

Feature a dozen live apps in a gallery, each with a short page: what it does, which endpoints it uses, how long the integration took. Add an optional "Shopping by Channel3" badge to the channel3-ui components that links to developer sign-up, and offer extra free credits to apps that keep it. Send a monthly showcase email to all developers.

Developers trust other developers' launches more than vendor claims, and every badge is a referral link that lives inside a shopping app.

• Developers don't want third-party branding

  Keep it optional and reward it with credits.

• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source
• Your websiteBlog index (checked November 9, 2026): 14 posts, of which the only customer story is "We Taught folk to Shop in 10 Minutes"; it lists two comparison posts (Shopify Catalog, Tavily) while the sitemap has eight; the newest post (October 26, 2026) is about matching sizes before an agent buys.Source
• Your websiteCustomer story: folk, an AI assistant in messaging apps from the same YC batch, integrated the API in about 10 minutes and now answers shopping requests with structured products, live prices and stock, and monetized links; the post gives no usage or sales figures.Source
• Your websiteSeed post (December 10, 2025): $6M led by Matrix with Y Combinator and Ludlow Ventures; at the time "more than 50 million products" and hundreds of developers building stylists, interior design tools, gifting agents and shopping assistants; "Humans shop on Google; AIs shop on Channel3."Source
• GitHubGitHub org channel3-ai: 18 public repos and 12 followers; channel3-ui (8 stars), skills (12 stars), mcp-server (2 stars), langchain-channel3 and agent-toolkit (0 stars each), plus channel3-for-woocommerce and channel3-for-magento plugins; the website's only platform support page is /support/bigcommerce.Source

Publish two or three monthly commitments with lower per-credit rates above the free tier, with self-serve upgrades in the dashboard; keep custom pricing for enterprises. Add a calculator: searches a month × price, next to the expected commission earned at a typical conversion rate, so developers see the net cost.

Visible prices remove a sales step for small teams, and showing commission next to cost turns the API into a product that can pay for itself.

• Lower revenue per credit

  Discount only committed volume above current averages.

• Your websiteAPI pricing docs: "1000 free credits every month, and extra credits are billed as they're used, at just $0.007 each"; most endpoints cost 1 credit; agents can pay per use through MPP without an API key or signup; bulk pricing means emailing support.Source
• Competitor researchRivals' own homepages: Rye, "Universal agentic checkout that actually works", with a Product Data API, affiliate commissions and a 99.9% API uptime commitment; SerpApi, a search-scraping API with Google Shopping and Amazon product APIs and published plans from 250 free searches to $275 a month for 30,000. Channel3's own comparison describes Shopify Catalog as a free endpoint for eligible Shopify merchants only.See the research Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source

Add a Free vs Premium table to /brands: what each includes, the price (or "from"), and how ranking and commission work in each. Add an upgrade prompt in the dashboard when a brand reaches a threshold of clicks, and mention Premium on the Shopify listing.

Brands that see results are ready to pay at that moment; a clear plan turns that intent into revenue without a sales call.

• Paid visibility looks like ads to agents and shoppers

  Explain how ranking works and label anything sponsored.

• Your websiteBrands post (June 10, 2026): a test of three AI shopping engines found wrong sizes and colors, mismatched prices and an invented product name; "AI recommends from your structured product data, not your website."; cites 53% of shoppers abandoning a purchase over incorrect product data (Akeneo 2025); promotes a free listing, "a Premium Plan for scaling" and setup in about 10 minutes.Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Shopify App StoreShopify App Store listing "Channel3 – Get AI Sales" ("Show up on every AI platform"): launched March 27, 2025, free, "No reviews yet", listed under the "Metafields" category, English only.Source

Track five steps for every developer: key created, first search, 100 searches, first click on a monetized link, first commission. At each place they stall, send a targeted nudge: a working prompt for their stack, the UI components, a commissions explainer, a sample app. Add a dashboard checklist that shows progress toward a first payout.

Developers who earn stay, and earning is what makes the paid credits feel cheap. Knowing where they stall shows which docs or tools to build next.

• Too many emails

  One nudge per stall, with an opt-out.

• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source
• Your websiteAPI pricing docs: "1000 free credits every month, and extra credits are billed as they're used, at just $0.007 each"; most endpoints cost 1 credit; agents can pay per use through MPP without an API key or signup; bulk pricing means emailing support.Source
• GitHubGitHub org channel3-ai: 18 public repos and 12 followers; channel3-ui (8 stars), skills (12 stars), mcp-server (2 stars), langchain-channel3 and agent-toolkit (0 stars each), plus channel3-for-woocommerce and channel3-for-magento plugins; the website's only platform support page is /support/bigcommerce.Source

Create /brands/shopify, /brands/woocommerce, /brands/magento and /brands/bigcommerce pages, each with install steps, what syncs and how often, and a support FAQ. Add platform logos and links to the brands page. Submit the WooCommerce and Magento plugins to each platform's official marketplace once they are production-ready.

Merchants search "<platform> + AI shopping". Platform pages catch those searches, and marketplace listings put Channel3 where merchants already install tools.

• Support load from new platforms

  Launch with a support FAQ per platform and sync health alerts.

• GitHubGitHub org channel3-ai: 18 public repos and 12 followers; channel3-ui (8 stars), skills (12 stars), mcp-server (2 stars), langchain-channel3 and agent-toolkit (0 stars each), plus channel3-for-woocommerce and channel3-for-magento plugins; the website's only platform support page is /support/bigcommerce.Source
• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Shopify App StoreShopify App Store listing "Channel3 – Get AI Sales" ("Show up on every AI platform"): launched March 27, 2025, free, "No reviews yet", listed under the "Metafields" category, English only.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source

Propose a joint program with Awin: a guide for advertisers on AI shopping traffic, a co-hosted webinar, and an easy way for Awin advertisers to approve Channel3 as a publisher. Add an "Awin advertisers" page on the site with steps. Once it works, repeat with the other networks brands connect.

Networks reach thousands of advertisers in one email, and those advertisers already pay commission, which is how Channel3 earns.

• The network sees Channel3 as a rival

  Frame it as new traffic for the network's advertisers.

• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteAwin Power 100 post (May 12, 2026): Channel3 named among Awin's 100 most innovative affiliate partners; Awin has over one million active partners.Source
• Your websiteSeed post (December 10, 2025): $6M led by Matrix with Y Combinator and Ludlow Ventures; at the time "more than 50 million products" and hundreds of developers building stylists, interior design tools, gifting agents and shopping assistants; "Humans shop on Google; AIs shop on Channel3."Source

Submit each package to the framework's official or community integration pages. Give every README a 30-second working example and a link to a free key. Publish one starter template per framework (a gifting agent, a style assistant) and link them from /developers.

Integration lists are where developers look first, and a working template makes the first search take minutes instead of hours.

• Maintainers decline the pull request

  Publish the templates and community examples anyway.

• GitHubGitHub org channel3-ai: 18 public repos and 12 followers; channel3-ui (8 stars), skills (12 stars), mcp-server (2 stars), langchain-channel3 and agent-toolkit (0 stars each), plus channel3-for-woocommerce and channel3-for-magento plugins; the website's only platform support page is /support/bigcommerce.Source
• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source

Email each brand a monthly report: the top shopper queries where its products appeared, impressions, clicks and conversions, products held back by missing data, and one suggestion (fill in sizes, or test a higher commission on a category). Link each section to the dashboard, and to Premium where it fits.

A monthly reminder of results keeps brands active, surfaces data fixes that raise performance, and creates natural upgrade moments.

• Small brands see tiny numbers

  Lead with queries and fixes, not totals.

• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteBrands post (June 10, 2026): a test of three AI shopping engines found wrong sizes and colors, mismatched prices and an invented product name; "AI recommends from your structured product data, not your website."; cites 53% of shoppers abandoning a purchase over incorrect product data (Akeneo 2025); promotes a free listing, "a Premium Plan for scaling" and setup in about 10 minutes.Source

Turn the internal evals into a public monthly scorecard. Measure the share of products with the correct brand, variant-matching accuracy, price and stock accuracy against the merchant's page, and median freshness, each by category. Publish the method and an open sample set, and invite other providers to run the same test. Put the scorecard on /developers and /enterprises.

"Highest quality product graph" is a claim; a monthly number is proof. It sets the terms of comparison in a market that is just forming, and it gives the engineering team a clear target.

• Early numbers look weak

  Publish the trend, and start with categories where the data is strongest.

• #1 Fix the brand pages that show off the graph: 8 of 12 "Sample Nike products" are Apple Watches

• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source
• Your websiteBlog index (checked November 9, 2026): 14 posts, of which the only customer story is "We Taught folk to Shop in 10 Minutes"; it lists two comparison posts (Shopify Catalog, Tavily) while the sitemap has eight; the newest post (October 26, 2026) is about matching sizes before an agent buys.Source
• Your websiteBrands post (June 10, 2026): a test of three AI shopping engines found wrong sizes and colors, mismatched prices and an invented product name; "AI recommends from your structured product data, not your website."; cites 53% of shoppers abandoning a purchase over incorrect product data (Akeneo 2025); promotes a free listing, "a Premium Plan for scaling" and setup in about 10 minutes.Source
• Competitor researchRivals' own homepages: Rye, "Universal agentic checkout that actually works", with a Product Data API, affiliate commissions and a 99.9% API uptime commitment; SerpApi, a search-scraping API with Google Shopping and Amazon product APIs and published plans from 250 free searches to $275 a month for 30,000. Channel3's own comparison describes Shopify Catalog as a free endpoint for eligible Shopify merchants only.See the research Source

Get two or three platforms or enterprises to agree to be named, and write short case studies with launch time, queries served and commission earned. Publish uptime history from the status page and a standard SLA. Run a checkout early-access pilot with one enterprise and publish the results. Package it all on /enterprises with a security section.

Enterprise buyers need peers, numbers and commitments before they sign. Each named launch makes the next sale shorter.

• Customers won't be named

  Offer anonymised case studies with real numbers.

• #3 Remove the "SOC 2 compliance in progress" footer that contradicts "SOC 2 certified"

• Your websiteEnterprises page: a conversational shopping agent, search, a "7.7% built-in network rate", insights and checkout "coming soon"; no named customers or testimonials; the uptime FAQ gives no SLA figures; "25,000+ retailers" in one place and "more than 25,000 brands" in the FAQ; the call to action is to talk it through with an AI assistant or "a human on the Channel3 team".Source
• Competitor researchRivals' own homepages: Rye, "Universal agentic checkout that actually works", with a Product Data API, affiliate commissions and a 99.9% API uptime commitment; SerpApi, a search-scraping API with Google Shopping and Amazon product APIs and published plans from 250 free searches to $275 a month for 30,000. Channel3's own comparison describes Shopify Catalog as a free endpoint for eligible Shopify merchants only.See the research Source
• Your websiteDevelopers page: "100 million products from over 25,000 brands" in the headline but "25,000 retailers" in the stats; "800ms p50" search latency; /checkout "Coming soon" with early access; "Many product offers include a commission rate. When your users buy, you earn."; the FAQ names Shopify Catalog and SerpApi; no testimonials.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: H1 "Where agents find products"; three paths: developers ("One API for 100M+ products"), brands ("Join 5,000+ brands") and enterprises ("Talk to us"); brand-partner logos Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, Staples and Fanatics; market stats such as "58% of consumers have used AI to shop" and "$3-5T projected agentic commerce revenue by 2030"; no testimonials or customer stories.Source

Publish a quarterly report of aggregated, anonymised trends: the fastest-growing categories and attributes in agent queries, the price bands asked for, how long queries are, and which data fields decide whether a product gets shown. Give each brand its own slice in the dashboard (the coming-soon feature), and use the report for press, brand outreach and enterprise pitches.

Original data earns press and links, and positions Channel3 as the source on agentic shopping instead of a company quoting others.

• Exposing partners' data

  Aggregate across apps, set minimum thresholds and get partner sign-off.

• Your websiteBrands page: "Sell on net-new AI platforms"; three steps (sign up free, connect your affiliate network, products enter the index); onboarding in "5 minutes, with no technical work"; no minimum commission, and agents are "more likely to recommend products with higher commissions"; publisher approval, real shopper queries, SKU-level impressions, clicks and conversions, and "See what shoppers want (coming soon)"; the header says "5,000+ brands partner with us" while the meta description says 25,000+ brands; no testimonials, no prices and no named e-commerce platforms.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: H1 "Where agents find products"; three paths: developers ("One API for 100M+ products"), brands ("Join 5,000+ brands") and enterprises ("Talk to us"); brand-partner logos Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, Staples and Fanatics; market stats such as "58% of consumers have used AI to shop" and "$3-5T projected agentic commerce revenue by 2030"; no testimonials or customer stories.Source
• HiringBackend Engineer (New York, $120K-$200K plus 0.25%-0.50% equity, open on Y Combinator's job board; YC lists a team of 5): parsing product pages across retailers, deduplicating products across merchants, mapping variants, fast search with deterministic filters, and evals for drift and hallucinations ("Write code to understand 1B products"); stated traction: "We've indexed 100M+ products", "3,000+ developers have started using our API", "We've partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopbop, Staples, and Home Depot" and "50M+ products processed every day".Source

Put pay-per-call first in llms.txt and the developer agents.md summary, with one copy-paste example. Add a short section on /developers called "For agents: no key needed". List the MCP server and the pay-per-call endpoint in the main MCP and agent-tool directories. Track agent-paid calls as their own channel.

Agents increasingly pick tools themselves. A provider they can call and pay without a human signing up gets chosen by default.

• Abuse of keyless access

  Rely on per-call payment and rate limits.

• Your websiteAPI pricing docs: "1000 free credits every month, and extra credits are billed as they're used, at just $0.007 each"; most endpoints cost 1 credit; agents can pay per use through MPP without an API key or signup; bulk pricing means emailing support.Source
• Your websitellms.txt: agent-readable summaries for each audience page; a brand is indexed when it has a deep catalog (800+ products) or demonstrated search demand; product data is refreshed daily.Source
• Your website/mcp page "Shopping, right where you chat": add Channel3 to AI chat apps or paste the MCP server URL into any MCP client; free; no usage numbers or testimonials.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 69 static URLs plus separate brand, category and retailer sitemaps of /product-data/ pages running to thousands of URLs (the brand sitemap alone is about 1.4 million characters); 15 /product-search-api/<category> pages alongside matching /product-data/<category> pages; eight "Channel3 vs" posts (Shopify, Tavily, Keenable, TinyFish, SerpApi, ShopMy, Exa, Google); /bolt is listed but returns 404; the /vs comparison page is not listed.Source