AI Platforms
Your customers are shopping on AI. Your brand should be there.
ChatGPT processes 50 million shopping queries a day. Google launched in-conversation checkout in AI Mode. Perplexity lets users buy without leaving the answer. Shopping is moving to AI platforms — and each one has its own SDK, protocol, and merchant program.
Kinect helps brands build native commerce experiences across all of them. One catalog connection, one brand voice, one intent data layer — deployed to every AI surface where your customers are already shopping.
The New Surfaces
Three platforms, one commerce layer
ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity are each building native commerce experiences. Each has its own SDK, protocol, or merchant program. Kinect connects your brand to all of them.
Apps SDK + Agentic Commerce Protocol
ChatGPT
ChatGPT processes 50 million shopping queries daily. OpenAI's Apps SDK lets brands build interactive apps inside the conversation, and the Agentic Commerce Protocol (built with Stripe) enables one-click checkout without leaving the chat.
- 700M+ weekly users, 50M daily shopping queries
- Instant Checkout live with Etsy, Glossier, SKIMS, and Shopify merchants
- Apps SDK built on MCP — custom UIs inside ChatGPT
- App Directory launched Dec 2025 for discovery
Universal Commerce Protocol
Google's UCP is the open standard powering checkout inside AI Mode and Gemini. Announced at NRF 2026, it lets shoppers buy without leaving the conversation — live now with Etsy and Wayfair, with Shopify, Target, and Walmart coming soon.
- In-conversation checkout in AI Mode and Gemini
- Co-developed with Shopify, backed by 20+ partners
- New Merchant Center attributes built for AI discovery
- Business Agent gives brands a conversational storefront on Google
Merchant Program
Perplexity
Perplexity handles 780M+ queries per month and growing. Its Merchant Program lets brands submit product feeds for higher-quality recommendations, and Buy with Pro enables one-click checkout via PayPal — now available to all US users.
- Native checkout via PayPal and Venmo, free shipping included
- Product feed integration for richer recommendations
- Free to join — no transaction fees or revenue share
- Shopify integration auto-distributes your catalog
Why Kinect
Don't build three integrations. Build one.
One integration, every platform
Each platform has its own protocol — OpenAI's ACP, Google's UCP, Perplexity's merchant feeds. Kinect handles the adapters and format differences so you connect your catalog once and deploy everywhere.
Your brand voice, everywhere
AI platforms will recommend your products whether you're there or not. Kinect ensures the recommendations, explanations, and tradeoffs reflect your brand — not a generic AI summary.
Intent data you've never had
Every AI conversation generates structured buying signals — what customers want, why, and what tradeoffs they're making. Kinect captures this across all platforms in one dashboard.
The shift is already here
ChatGPT drives 20% of Walmart's referral traffic. Shopify merchants saw a 14x increase in orders from AI agents. The brands that show up on these platforms now will own the conversational shelf.
Part of one system
Your presence on AI platforms is powered by the same intelligence layer that drives your on-site experience and adaptive storefront. One system that learns and applies it everywhere.
Ready to be on every AI platform?
We'll show you how Kinect connects your brand to ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity — in one integration.
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