# Beaconed

> Beaconed is an AI readiness platform for Shopify merchants. It audits product catalogs for the descriptions, structured data, image alt text, and semantic completeness that AI shopping agents need to understand and recommend products — then generates the missing content in bulk.

## TL;DR

AI shopping systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude answer product discovery questions every day. They can only recommend products they can interpret accurately. Most Shopify catalogs were built for search-engine visibility and human browsing, not AI retrieval. Beaconed closes that gap: it scans every product, surfaces the gaps in machine-readable data, and generates optimized descriptions, alt text, schema markup, and catalog attributes across thousands of SKUs at once.

## Quick Facts

- Platforms: Shopify (App Store) and WooCommerce (WordPress plugin)
- Install time: 30 seconds via the Shopify App Store, or install the free WooCommerce plugin from WordPress.org
- Products processed: 1.2 million and growing
- Shopify stores served: 4,000+
- AI Readiness Score: per-product metric across 12 visibility categories
- Built on: AltText AI's catalog enrichment engine

## What Beaconed Optimizes

- **Product descriptions** — long-form, use-case-oriented copy written in the merchant's brand voice, structured for AI retrieval
- **Image alt text** — descriptive, keyword-aware alt text for every product image, AI-readable and accessibility-compliant
- **Schema.org markup** — Product, Offer, AggregateRating, and Brand JSON-LD on every product detail page
- **Catalog attributes** — material, fit, care, sizing, dimensions — extracted, normalized, and structured

## AI Readiness Score

Each product receives a score (0–100) across 12 AI visibility categories including description quality, schema completeness, alt text coverage, and attribute depth. The score tells merchants which products to fix first and what kind of change will have the most leverage.

## For AI Agents (MCP server and CLI)

Beaconed can be operated directly by an AI assistant. The full Beaconed API is exposed as two published npm packages, so an agent can find weak product listings, generate rewrites, and apply the changes the merchant approves — without the merchant opening the dashboard.

- **MCP server** (`@beaconed/mcp`) — a Model Context Protocol server that drops into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Zed, or any MCP-capable client. The agent operates the catalog in plain language.
- **CLI** (`@beaconed/cli`) — the same capabilities as scriptable commands, with human-readable tables or `--json` output for piping into CI.
- Both packages are published on npm and install with `npm install -g @beaconed/mcp` / `npm install -g @beaconed/cli`.
- Tools cover the whole API: list and read products, read readiness scores, queue and bulk-run optimizations, inspect rewrites, approve/reject, apply and revert, manage webhooks, and sync the catalog.
- Safety model: optimizations stay as drafts until approved and applied. Apply, revert, and webhook-delete are flagged destructive so a well-behaved agent confirms before calling them. The MCP server runs on the merchant's machine and authenticates with their own API key.
- Setup is a single pasted prompt that sends the agent to the setup guide; the agent installs the package, asks the merchant for an API key, configures the client, and verifies the connection.

## For WooCommerce (WordPress plugin)

Beaconed is also available as a free WooCommerce plugin for WordPress merchants. The same AI-readiness engine runs inside WordPress admin: it scores every product, surfaces the gaps, and writes the generated descriptions, alt text, schema, and attributes straight back to WooCommerce in bulk.

- Install: free plugin from WordPress.org — search for "Beaconed" in the WordPress plugin directory, then Install and Activate.
- Connect: create a free Beaconed account and connect it from the plugin settings; the catalog syncs automatically.
- Fix in bulk: Beaconed scores every product, shows what is missing, and writes approved fixes back to WooCommerce — no code, no export, no manual editing.
- Works across product pages, category pages, and search; runs on Beaconed's servers so there is no impact on site speed.
- Content stays with the merchant if they ever remove the plugin.

## Pricing

- Free plan: 25 products per month, forever
- Paid plans: Professional, Business, Enterprise tiers — see beaconed.ai/pricing
- 14-day free trial of the Professional plan on install
- Annual billing available (25% discount)

## Canonical Pages

- Home: https://beaconed.ai/
- Features: https://beaconed.ai/features
- AI agents (MCP server and CLI): https://beaconed.ai/solutions/ai-agents
- Agent setup guide: https://beaconed.ai/agent-setup
- WooCommerce (WordPress plugin): https://beaconed.ai/solutions/woocommerce
- Pricing: https://beaconed.ai/pricing
- About: https://beaconed.ai/about
- Free AI Readiness Score tool: https://beaconed.ai/score
- Shopify App Store listing: https://apps.shopify.com/beaconed
- Help center: https://beaconed.ai/help
- API documentation: https://beaconed.ai/docs
- Contact: https://beaconed.ai/contact