# Elytron Labs

> Elytron Labs builds AI-powered tools for e-commerce. Its products are DripSync, which syncs product images from Google Drive to online stores using AI vision matching, and Pollen, which makes store catalogs discoverable and recommendable by AI assistants and shopping agents.

## Products

- [Pollen](https://pollen.elytron.in/): Agent commerce readiness for online stores. Audits how well a catalog reads to AI, enriches product data with multimodal AI, and publishes it to AI surfaces (Schema.org, llms.txt, Google Merchant Center, Meta catalogs, ACP, MCP). Works with Shopify and WooCommerce. Machine-readable summary: https://pollen.elytron.in/llms.txt
- [DripSync](https://dripsync.elytron.in/): AI-powered product image sync. Connects Google Drive and matches images to the right products automatically, including messy filenames and large catalogs. Available for Shopify and WooCommerce.

## Company

- [Home](https://elytron.in/): Company overview and products.
- [Contact](https://elytron.in/contact/): care@elytron.in

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://elytron.in/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms of Service](https://elytron.in/terms-of-service/)

## Underwing

- [All notes](https://elytron.in/underwing/): notes, analysis, and research from Elytron Labs on AI and e-commerce, including how AI assistants crawl, cite, and recommend online stores.
- [Can AI crawlers read your store if they can't run JavaScript? I checked what real stores serve](https://elytron.in/underwing/can-ai-crawlers-read-your-store-if-they-cant-run-javascript-i-checked-what-real-stores-serve/): The advice going around right now is that AI crawlers cannot run JavaScript, so they land on your store, see a blank page, and skip your products. The recommended fix is to server-render everything. Most of that is wrong, and the part that is right has nothing to do with JavaScript. Two things are true […]
- [Your Shopify products are in ChatGPT by default: the checklist that actually gates them](https://elytron.in/underwing/your-shopify-products-are-in-chatgpt-by-default-the-checklist-that-actually-gates-them/): If you run a Shopify store that sells to the United States, your products are almost certainly already discoverable in ChatGPT, and you did nothing to make that happen. Shopify’s own Help Center is blunt about it: “You don’t need to do anything for your products to be discovered by ChatGPT through Shopify Catalog.” The […]
- [Unblocking GPTBot won't get your products into ChatGPT: what each OpenAI crawler actually does](https://elytron.in/underwing/unblocking-gptbot-wont-get-your-products-into-chatgpt-what-each-openai-crawler-actually-does/): If you have searched for why your store does not show up in ChatGPT, you have almost certainly been told the fix is to edit your robots.txt and let GPTBot crawl your site. I checked that advice against OpenAI’s own documentation, and it is wrong on two separate counts. Allowing GPTBot does not put your […]
- [Why your AI-visibility audit says your prices are invisible when they're not](https://elytron.in/underwing/why-your-ai-visibility-audit-says-your-prices-are-invisible-when-theyre-not/): Diagnostic 2 stores checked Schema.org + Google docs verified August 2026 Your AI-Visibility Audit Says Your Price Is Invisible. It Almost Certainly Isn’t. I checked what an audit tool actually searches for versus what a machine actually reads, and found the two are not the same layer of the page. Verdict If an AI-visibility audit […]
- [Which product feed fields actually get you into ChatGPT and Google's AI answers](https://elytron.in/underwing/which-product-feed-fields-actually-get-you-into-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-answers/): The feed that puts your products inside ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers needs about eight required fields, not the seventy-plus that validator apps advertise checking. I read the OpenAI and Google feed specs line by line, and the required set is small, shared, and boring: id, title, description, link, image, availability, price, brand. The reason […]
- [How products get into ChatGPT: it runs on a feed, not an agents.md file](https://elytron.in/underwing/how-products-get-into-chatgpt-it-runs-on-a-feed-not-an-agents-md-file/): “How do I get my store recommended by ChatGPT?” is the question I hear most from merchants right now. Search it and you will find a hundred near-identical checklists, and most of them open with the same instruction: drop an agents.md file, or an llms.txt file, at the root of your site and wait to […]
- [Google's Content API shuts down today: what actually breaks, and the check most guides get backwards](https://elytron.in/underwing/googles-content-api-shuts-down-today-what-actually-breaks-and-the-check-most-guides-get-backwards/): Today, August 18, 2026, is the day Google turns off the Content API for Shopping. Google’s own release notes put it plainly: “Content API for Shopping will be sunset on August 18, 2026.” There is no grace period and no soft cutoff. If a piece of software on your side still talks to that API, […]
- [How a one-person lab ships two AI products](https://elytron.in/underwing/how-a-one-person-lab-ships-two-ai-products/): A written context layer next to the code, and agents that read it before they touch anything: the operating model behind DripSync and Pollen.
- [Google's UCP, decoded for merchants](https://elytron.in/underwing/googles-ucp-decoded-for-merchants/): UCP splits discovery from checkout. Discovery is opening up, checkout is gated, and AP2 handles payments separately. Here's what to do now.
- [Shopify's Agentic Plan: what it does for you, and what it doesn't](https://elytron.in/underwing/shopifys-agentic-plan-what-it-does-for-you-and-what-it-doesnt/): Shopify's Agentic Plan solves connection to AI surfaces. It doesn't fix your product data. Here's the line, and what to do about it.