Our story

Every sale now starts with a question.

Shoppers no longer only search; they also ask AI what to buy. Seyaq measures whether your store appears in those answers and shows what you can improve.

I need a birthday gift under 60 US dollarsI want a luxurious men's fragrance for less than 80 US dollarsWhich store can deliver a black abaya by Thursday?Which store is best for specialty coffee equipment?Are these wireless earbuds in stock right now?Where can I buy a cotton duvet set with fast delivery?
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The shift

Product discovery has changed three times in twenty years

Each era rewrote the rules for who gets found. The stores that noticed early won each time.

2004Ten blue links

The search era

Shoppers typed keywords and browsed ten blue links. Page one was everything, and a whole industry — SEO — grew around getting there.

2015Pay to appear

The social platform era

Discovery moved into social feeds and paid placements. Merchants bought attention ad by ad, and margins quietly paid for it.

TodayOne answer

The answer era

Shoppers describe what they need and an assistant may reply with a short list, including product details and links to stores.

Ten blue links became one answer.

There is no page two of an AI answer. A store is either in it, or it isn't.

The blind spot

Your store speaks to people. AI systems read something else.

A storefront can look beautiful to people while remaining difficult for AI to read. Most merchants never see this gap because their dashboards do not measure it.

What shoppers see
🕯️
Oud & Amber Candle
40 US dollars
In stock
Add to cart
What an assistant reads
price: not found
availability: unknown
structured data: missing
language: undetected
checkout: unreachable
“I couldn't find reliable, current information about this store's products…”

Why SEO is no longer enough on its own

SEO taught pages how to rank in search. Visibility in AI answers is a different test:

Keywords placed on a pageStructured facts an assistant can verify
Ranking among ten resultsBeing the answer, with evidence
Traffic you interpret laterLive price, stock and a working checkout link
The moment

Ninety seconds, one winner, and no trace

This is a new moment of competition for stores. Without measurement, merchants cannot easily see when their store is missing from the answer.

00:00The question
“I want a comfortable sofa delivered within a week — budget around 700 US dollars.”
00:04The reasoning

The assistant weighs what it can verify — live prices, confirmed stock, delivery promises, answers in the shopper's language.

Store Alive price · in stock · answers in the right languageRecommended
Store Bprice not machine-readable
Store Cstock unknown since the last crawl
00:09The answer

One store is named, with a live price and a link. The shortlist has one name on it.

🛋️
3-seater cloud sofa
500 US dollars
Buy from Store A
01:30The purchase
Checkout happens on the winning store's own storefront. The customer never opened a search engine.
The silence

For every other store, that evening looks like nothing happened. No visit and no abandoned cart—the loss produces no data.

What the other stores saw that night
Visits from this conversation0
The lost sale, in any report

You cannot fix a loss you never see. That sentence is why Seyaq exists.

Here comes Seyaq

The tool that makes this moment visible

Seyaq replays that moment on demand — for your store, against your competitors — and turns what it finds into a plan.

1
Ask

Real shopping questions in English and Arabic, tested with a configurable AI engine and web search.

2
See

The actual answers: who got recommended, who was skipped, and why.

3
Fix

The catalog and store factors costing you visibility, ranked by priority and impact.

4
Prove

Recommendation outcomes tracked over time — improvement measured, not assumed.

Built for AI-ready commerceArabic and English, nativelySalla · product feeds · CSV from any platformOpen standards: MCP · JSON-LD · llms.txtPurchases and checkout stay on your store
The proof

What visibility and recommendation audits repeatedly reveal

The same patterns recur across visibility measurements. They are usually ordinary information gaps that may give another store a better chance of being recommended.

Language gap

Arabic shoppers, English evidence

A store sells in Arabic, but everything machine-readable about it exists only in English — or nowhere. Asked in Arabic, assistants recommend the store they can verify in Arabic.

Availability gap

“In stock” that only humans can see

If availability is visible to shoppers but missing from clear, structured data, AI may not be able to verify it. That can reduce the chance of your product being recommended over another store's.

Identity gap

One product, two identities

The Arabic storefront and the English catalog name the same product differently. To an assistant, that is two weak candidates instead of one strong one — the evidence splits.

Freshness gap

Outdated information may affect AI recommendations

Without a current source to consult, AI may rely on old data, recommend products that are no longer available, and miss newer or bestselling products.

The key to recommendation visibility

The winner is not always the biggest store

In many cases, AI recommends the store whose data it can understand, verify, and cite most easily—not necessarily the largest store. That is something you can improve.

Findings like these appear in many first audits and often surprise store owners.

Why Seyaq exists

It started with an uncomfortable experiment

We tested the questions shoppers ask every day with an AI engine powered by web search—a gift under 60 US dollars, an abaya delivered by Thursday, a coffee grinder that ships to Riyadh—and watched who was recommended. Stores we knew and loved, with great products and loyal customers, barely appeared. Not because they were not good, but because AI did not understand enough about them.

The merchants behind those stores were doing everything right by the old rules. They paid for SEO. They ran the ads. Their storefronts looked beautiful. But a growing share of buying decisions was being made inside a single generated answer, and nothing in their toolkit could see that conversation — let alone win it. A loss that never shows up in a report is the easiest loss to ignore.

Help your store become one of the options AI recommends to shoppers.
The sentence we test every feature against

So we built the tool we could not find: one that tests real shopping questions in English and Arabic with an approved AI engine and returns answers and evidence—who was recommended, why competitors appeared, which product and store factors may limit visibility, and whether measured results changed after improvements. No grand promises or guaranteed rankings: measure, improve, verify.

We are building Seyaq for every store, in the languages of its customers, products, and markets. Our goal is clear: the customer, purchase, and checkout stay on your store. We measure your opportunities to appear in AI answers and recommendations, then show what to improve when your store is missing.

What we believe

Four principles we won't trade away

Evidence over promises

No one can guarantee that AI will recommend a specific store. We show actual results, the competitors that appear, and measurable change over time instead of selling promises.

Open standards, not lock-in

We use open technologies and standards such as MCP, JSON-LD, and llms.txt so your store presence and data remain under your control, without dependence on a closed system.

The sale stays yours

AI helps shoppers discover and compare options, while purchases and payment happen on your store. Seyaq does not handle payment data.

The shopper's language comes first

Shoppers ask in Arabic, in English, and in both at once. Every question we track and every report we write works natively in both languages.

Where this is heading

AI is playing a larger role in purchase decisions

AI is gradually moving from answering questions to comparing options, making recommendations, and taking more steps in the buying journey. That makes a clear, readable store presence increasingly important.

Stage 1Happening today

Assistants recommend

Shoppers ask, and AI presents a limited set of options. Appearing in these recommendations is becoming like reaching the first page—and many stores are not there yet.

Stage 2Happening today

Assistants compare

During the same conversation, AI can compare prices, availability, and delivery across stores. Stores with clear, readable data enter the comparison; others may not appear.

Stage 3Starting to emerge

Assistants buy

The experience is moving from recommendations toward purchases within the same conversation, with agents able to complete more of the buying process for users.

Stage 4Closer than it looks

Assistants become the regular customer

Shopping agents monitor prices, reorder products, and compare alternatives for customers. Over time, some customers may be software making purchase decisions for real people.

Seyaq's mission stays the same: keep your store visible, understood, and among the options—however search and shopping evolve.

Your customers are asking AI right now

Find out what AI assistants say when shoppers ask about products like yours — free, in minutes, with real evidence.