Product families
Parents own a shared FAQ and thumbnail. Children show inherited plus own FAQs.
Live · flagship
AEO & Agentic Storefronts
A catalog machines can read, and people sign off.
Forge models every page and product, drafts the facts AI readers need, validates them against what the page actually shows, and publishes to WooCommerce or Shopify when your team approves.
Catalog · HX Series familySample data
Family · confirmed by operatorHX Series Ball Valves6 family FAQs · thumbnail · 5 children
- HX-25 · 1 in.FAQ · inherited (6) + own (2)
- HX-32 · 1¼ in.FAQ · inherited (6) + own (2)
- HX-40 · 2 in.FAQ · inherited (6) + own (2)
- HX-50 · 2½ in.FAQ · inherited (6) + own (2)
| key | value | unit | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pressure_rating | 1000 | WOG | catalog export |
| body_material | 316 SS | - | datasheet PDF |
| end_connection | NPT | - | catalog export |
Short answer
AEO & Agentic Storefronts is Forge's flagship module. It turns a WooCommerce or Shopify catalog into consistent, server-rendered, structured facts (families, specs, FAQs, policies and discovery files) that AI answer engines and buyer agents can read, with every publish behind human review.
New in Forge
Families, specs and knowledge, shipped.
The catalog and knowledge release adds parent families, structured specs, bulk publish, staging-to-production promote and an account knowledge base.
Structured specs
Key, value, unit and source on each SKU, up to 200 rows, normalized one way in Forge and the plugin.
Bulk publish & promote
Publish by family, category or product; promote staging drafts to production with unmatched SKUs listed.
Account Knowledge
Skills, guides, URLs and assets ground every product draft and GEO fix draft in your terms.
What Forge publishes
Every artifact an AI reader looks for.
Enriched JSON-LD
Product, Organization and page-level schema, with the Schema Conflict Manager reconciling theme and plugin output.
Discovery files
llms.txt, an AI sitemap, an AI-bot robots allowlist and a capability-limited UCP manifest.
Machine-readable policies
Shipping, returns, warranty and terms in a form agents can quote accurately.
Answer-first pages
Visible, server-rendered answers to the questions buyers actually ask.
Product fields
Identifiers, availability, lead time and quote paths, where your catalog has them.
Measured outcomes
Citation Observatory and Search Console track what changes, separately from readiness.
Two platforms, one engine
WooCommerce-native. Shopify first-class.
WooCommerce & WordPress
The ForgeAEO plugin (1.7) is the write path: specs and featured image on products, FAQPage JSON-LD, Product additionalProperty through WooCommerce structured data, visible FAQ and spec blocks rendered once, and a footer fallback when a theme emits none.
Shopify
A first-class peer through a review-gated metafield write path, on the same engine, validation and GEO Report. Your store keeps checkout and its own Shopify Catalog settings.
How a change ships
Draft, validate, review, publish.
- 01
Draft
From your catalog export, datasheets and account Knowledge, never from guesses.
- 02
Validate
Against the live rendered page, so markup agrees with what people see.
- 03
Review
An operator approves; families are confirmed by a person, never by AI.
- 04
Publish
To staging or production, with one audit event and per-row results.
Questions
AEO & Agentic Storefronts.
What is an agentic storefront?
A storefront whose products, policies and next steps are readable and actionable by AI agents, not just by people: server-rendered facts, consistent structured data, published policies, and a clear quote or purchase path.
What does Forge publish to our store?
Enriched JSON-LD reconciled by the Schema Conflict Manager, product specs and family FAQs (visible on the page and in Product additionalProperty and FAQPage markup), llms.txt, an AI sitemap, an AI-bot robots allowlist, a capability-limited UCP manifest, machine-readable policies and answer-first pages, all after review.
What are product families?
A confirmed family is the parent of its SKUs and owns a shared FAQ and thumbnail. Children inherit the family FAQ and can add their own questions; the published list is the composed one. Families are proposed from your catalog and confirmed, merged or split by a person. AI never confirms a family.
Can we test on staging first?
Yes. An account can connect up to three storefronts, for example production and staging. Promote copies drafts from staging to production by external ID, then SKU, as drafts only, and lists any products it could not match.
Does the UCP manifest let agents check out?
No. Forge's manifest is capability-limited: transactional capabilities such as checkout, payment, fulfillment and order are never emitted. Checkout stays on your store.
Does structured data get us cited?
Structured data helps machines interpret a page and agree with what is visible, but it is not a citation lever on its own, and FAQ rich results ended in 2026. Forge treats it as one part of readiness, alongside server-rendered facts, specs and clear next steps.
Next step
See what AI reads before your buyers do.
Start with a free GEO Report on your own storefront, or book a working session and we will walk through your catalog together.