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Millions of shoppers now ask AI what to buy. Lantern is how ecommerce brands become the answer.

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Shopping is moving into the model, and it is moving fast.

Search optimization defined the last era of ecommerce. Recommendation optimization defines the next. The shift to AI shopping is early, but every quarter the numbers climb.

2024
Google launches AI Overviews and starts answering shopping questions directly in search.
2025
AI Mode goes mainstream, and shoppers begin treating the model as the storefront.
2025–26
The ACP and UCP commerce protocols give AI agents a standard way to read products and complete checkout.
2026
Walmart pivots its strategy toward agent-led shopping, signaling the largest retailers are betting on it.
Apr 2026
Adobe reports AI traffic to US retail up 393% year over year, converting 42% better than other traffic.
Jun 2026
Google adds AI reports to Search Console, treating AI answers as a measured channel brands are expected to track.
$300–500B
Agentic AI could drive 15 to 25% of US ecommerce, roughly $300 to $500 billion, by 2030.
Bain
59×
LLM-referred orders grew 59 times in a single year.
Triple Whale
$500M
Costco's AI recommendation carousels drove nearly $500 million in a quarter, at about 3 times its normal conversion rate.
Costco Q3 FY2026 earnings
60%
60% of stores were never recommended once across 58,320 Gemini shopping queries. The winners had readable product data, not the biggest brands.
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Most tools grade where you stand today. Lantern shows where you are heading.

Lantern projects your visibility forward, then simulates how specific on-site and off-site changes move it. You see the trend before it lands, and you act on it.

Forecast. A position-weighted Predicted Visibility score, a leading indicator of where your presence in AI answers is heading.
Simulate. Lantern models how a product-data fix or a new citation would move your forecast before you commit to it.
Recommend. Lantern ranks the changes that earn the mention and hands you the recommendations to act on.
Predicted VisibilityForecast · 90 days
Measured todayForecast with recommendations

Lantern sees the answer, forecasts the trend, and tells you what to change.

Sees
Lantern runs your prompts daily across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, extracts every brand mention, and scores you on presence, position, and sentiment.
Forecasts
Lantern projects a position-weighted Predicted Visibility score so you read where your presence in AI answers is heading and simulate how a change moves it.
Recommends
Lantern surfaces the citation gaps where rivals are cited and you are not, and the product-data changes that earn the mention, then ranks the recommendations to act on.

Lantern reads the answer back to you.

Visibility by model
“Best noise-canceling headphones under $300?”
ChatGPT74%
Gemini21%
Claude58%
Perplexity12%
Lantern scores you on presence, position, and sentiment in every model, and forecasts where that score is heading.
What the model says
Gemini, today

For headphones under $300, most people pick Sony, Bose, or Sennheiser. Your store is never mentioned.

Gemini, after Lantern's recommendations

Strong options under $300 include Sony, Bose, and your store, which carries an open-box range with a two-year warranty.

Lantern shows the citation gaps and product changes that earn the mention.

Run Lantern from Claude. 150+ tools, one command.

Install the Lantern plugin for Claude and analyze a domain, study a competitor, sync a store, or read your visibility without leaving the chat. OAuth, works with any MCP client.

Claude CodeCodexCursorOAuth
lantern · claude
$ claude plugin marketplace add lanterninc/claude-plugins # marketplace added > /plugin install lantern ✓ lantern installed, 150+ tools available > /mcp ✓ lantern connected (OAuth)
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“I've spent 10 years building Headphones.com into a successful DTC brand, watching AI develop the whole time. I could see how much winning in agentic commerce was going to matter. Lantern got so good at it for my own store that we're taking it to market. Built by ecommerce operators, for ecommerce operators.”

Andrew Lissimore
Founder of Lantern and Headphones.com (10+ years)
Run by an operator
Andrew has run Headphones.com for 10+ years, and still runs it day to day.
Built with engineers from Amazon
Lantern is built by a team that includes engineers from Amazon.
Shaping agentic commerce
Submitted contributions to UCP and ACP to help solve the attribution problem.
Lantern works with every major ecommerce platform.

One plan. Seven days free.

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$99/ month
  • 7-day free trial with 5,000 credits to start right away
  • Billed on day 7 with 10,000 more credits, 15,000 in your first month
  • Tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Perplexity
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Be the brand AI recommends.

See what the models say about your store, and change it.

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