AI readiness for electronics and gadget retailers

A researcher comparing you against a marketplace on specifications alone.

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The moment

Kat, who runs a specialist audio retailer

A buyer asks an assistant to compare two amplifiers on power output, warranty and delivery, across the shops that stock both.

What the agent needs: Specifications, price, stock, warranty term and delivery estimate.

What actually happens: The spec table is an image supplied by the manufacturer, warranty terms are in a policy page nobody linked, and stock is rendered client-side. The assistant compares two marketplaces and never mentions the specialist.

Which dimensions decide it, and why

AIScan grades five dimensions. These are the ones that carry the outcome for this kind of business.

Commerce

Comparison shopping is decided entirely on structured fields. Price, availability, condition and warranty in Offer markup are what put you in the table.

Content

Specifications belong in HTML tables, not manufacturer JPEGs. This is the single most common reason a specialist retailer loses to a marketplace in an AI answer.

Discoverability

Deep catalogues need clean sitemaps and canonical hosts; duplicate variant URLs split whatever authority the product pages have.

The checks that matter here

Fix guides: /docs/checks/commerce · /docs/platforms/shopify · /docs/checks/discoverability

Most sites like this run on Shopify — read the Shopify playbook for where each fix lives.

Questions we get asked

Why do marketplaces win these answers?

Not because they are bigger — because their spec and price fields are structured. A specialist with the same data structured competes fine.

Manufacturers give me spec images. What now?

Retype the specs into an HTML table. It is tedious once and decisive thereafter.

Does warranty length really get asked?

Constantly, in exactly this comparison shape. Put the term in text on the product page, not only in a policy page.

Should refurbished condition be marked up?

Yes — itemCondition is part of Offer and it is the field that stops a refurb being compared against a new unit.

What about stock levels?

availability in the served HTML. Client-side stock reads as unknown, and unknown loses to in-stock every time.

How do I measure this?

Scan a product URL, not just the homepage — per-page scans grade the page an agent will actually fetch.

Scan your site and see where you actually stand

Free, no account, about twenty seconds. The report names every failing check by ID, shows the evidence we found, and gives the fix for your platform — plus a hand-off prompt you can paste straight into Claude Code or Cursor.

Run a free scan npx aiscan-cli yoursite.com

Prefer to read first? Browse every check we run or the guide library.

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