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AI Visibility and Accessibility for Headless Shopify Plus

Two seats. Architecture seat — I define the model; your team publishes. Operating seat — I also run day-to-day CMS publishing. One operating seat at a time. Contentstack and Sanity. Measured with Profound and CrownPeak.

Limited partnerships. New York. Multi-month, not a package.

Proof of work

9.6 / 10

CrownPeak score (platform avg 6.9)

~1,000 → baseline

WCAG issues, 12-month meter

~4,000 → ~500

Total CrownPeak issues, 24-month meter

0

Priority issues across 378 pages

On a 378-page headless Shopify Plus catalog, CrownPeak accessibility score reached 9.6 / 10 against a platform average of 6.9. Priority issues: 0. Average issues per page: 1.14.

Scores moved by cleaning CMS output — not an overlay. Component HTML stays with engineering.

When I started as content lead, the catalog was two mattresses. It is now a full sleep brand: 15+ mattress models plus furniture, bedding, and pillows, published in Contentstack while that assortment grew.

Live citation pattern in the CMS: intent collection paired with a supporting guide. Example: Best Firm Mattresses collection plus the 2026 firm-mattress guide — query-shaped hub, short product set, comparison table, FAQs written to shopping questions.

The same heading, label, and entity fixes that cleared CrownPeak priority issues are what answer engines extract from collections, PDPs, and guides.

Stack fluency

Shopify PlusContentstackSanityProfoundCrownPeak
Read the published Contentstack case study

Solo is the product

No junior team. One senior partner.

MorelightCMS architecture and publishing, content-level CrownPeak, Profound.
Your engineersStorefront components and design-system accessibility.
Your editorsPublish in the model; on the operating seat I publish.

No overlay vendor. No junior team. One senior partner inside the CMS.

Three workstreams

01

AEO / AI visibility

Prompt sets, citation gaps, schema, Profound monitoring, collection and guide pairs.

02

Structured content

Content models, FAQs, modules, collection and PDP patterns.

03

Accessibility

CrownPeak on CMS content; fixes in entries and modules; no overlay.

Who this is for

This work is for

  • Headless Shopify Plus brands
  • Teams that need AI visibility and accessibility handled as one program
  • Brands ready for a 6–12 month partnership, not a one-off audit
  • Directors who want one senior partner, not a junior team

This is not for

  • Brands that need a full rebuild or platform migration
  • Paid media, CRO, or email programs
  • Early-stage theme stores looking for a quick SEO package
  • Brands that only want an accessibility overlay
  • Sub-mid-five-figure retainer engagements

Why AEO and accessibility are one program

Shoppers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for product recommendations. Those systems answer with brand names. If your content, entities, and structure are unclear, you are invisible — even if the store converts well in traditional search.

The same semantic structure that helps a screen reader helps an answer engine. Fixing both with one partner eliminates the dual-vendor waste that most brands accept by default.

How engagements work

Snapshot

20-minute review of current AI visibility and major accessibility issues. Used to decide fit.

Baseline Diagnostic

Two weeks. Profound prompt set, CrownPeak content audit, gap analysis, and a prioritized action plan — CMS-ready changes plus a separate list of component-level issues for engineering.

Partnership

Six-month minimum. Monthly loop: prompt set, citation gap, CMS changes, CrownPeak re-scan, Profound re-measure.

All engagements start with a free Snapshot. No commitment required.

Common questions

What does a typical engagement look like?

It starts with a free 20-minute AI Visibility Snapshot. If there's a fit, we move to a two-week Baseline Diagnostic, then a six-month minimum partnership with a monthly measurement loop.

Do you work with brands outside Shopify Plus?

Occasionally, if the stack is headless and the CMS is enterprise-grade. The tools and method transfer — Profound and CrownPeak are platform-agnostic.

How is this different from an SEO agency?

Traditional SEO optimizes for crawlers. This work optimizes for answer engines — the systems that synthesize recommendations rather than return a list of links. The overlap is structured content and clear entity signals; the goal is different.

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