Skai Lama launches AI suite for Shopify stores ahead of Black Friday

Skai Lama unveiled a free BFCM AI Suite for Shopify merchants as retailers brace for the first Black Friday and Cyber Week season shaped by AI shopping. The offering combines visibility, conversion, bundling and checkout tools, plus a 48-hour readiness audit, to help stores get found by AI agents and capture more revenue.

Why it matters: - AI-driven shopping is moving from experiment to core holiday infrastructure, and Shopify merchants need to be visible to assistants as well as humans. - Skai Lama is packaging its existing Shopify app experience into a new offering aimed at helping stores convert AI-referred traffic and lift revenue during BFCM 2026. - The company has more than 48,000 Shopify stores using its apps.

What happened: - Skai Lama announced its BFCM AI Suite for Shopify stores on Sept. 16, 2026. - The company says the suite is built to help merchants prepare for the first holiday season of the AI era. - The suite is available now through the company's BFCM 2026 Hub.

The details: - The suite centers on four services: AI SEO / AEO, AI CRO, Bundle Intelligence and Checkout Intelligence. - AI SEO / AEO checks whether AI agents are recommending a store's products, bulk-edits catalog attributes and verifies changes against the live store. - AI CRO breaks down the funnel by stage and device, prices leaks in dollars and recommends UX changes, upsells and promotions through Kite Discounts and Free Gifts. - Bundle Intelligence uses a store's order history and lookalike patterns to rank bundle ideas. It runs on Easy Bundle Builder, which has generated more than $385 million in bundle revenue across 20,000+ Shopify stores. - Checkout Intelligence delivers trust, clarity and upsell widgets inside Shopify checkout through Checkout Wiz, built for Shopify Plus. - The entry point is a free BFCM Readiness Audit that runs all four engines against a live store and returns a human-reviewed report within 48 hours. - The report ranks each gap by dollar impact. - Neetika Malhotra, co-founder of Skai Lama, said every bundle and checkout change ships as an A/B test against a frozen baseline, and winners are locked before Cyber Week. - Malhotra also said no one can guarantee an AI ranking, but merchants can optimize product listings to improve their chances of being ranked.

Between the lines: - Adobe Analytics says AI-referred shoppers converted 31% higher than other traffic last holiday season, and 54% higher on Thanksgiving Day, with revenue per visit up 254%. - Salesforce projects 20% of 2026 holiday ecommerce traffic will come from AI chat agents. - Since March, eligible Shopify stores have appeared inside ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot through Shopify's catalog integrations, but many merchants have not seen the version of their products that those agents read. - In January 2026, Google and Shopify introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol, later backed by Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard. - That open standard has turned AI-driven product discovery into permanent commerce infrastructure, making product readability a competitive issue rather than a novelty. - Skai Lama says the AI engines are new, but the underlying levers are proven across bundles, discounting and checkout optimization. - The company cites a California apparel brand that generated more than $20.7 million in bundle revenue using Easy Bundle Builder. - Skai Lama also cites a jewelry brand that generated $465,000 from a four-day Black Friday gift-box campaign. - A Checkout Wiz merchant reported checkout conversion rising from 56% to 63% during peak season.

What's next: - Skai Lama is positioning the audit as the fastest way for merchants to find what to fix before Cyber Week. - The company is betting that merchants will need both AI visibility work and classic conversion-rate improvements as holiday traffic shifts toward assistants. - BFCM 2026 will be the first major test of how well Shopify stores can sell into AI-mediated shopping journeys.

The bottom line: - Skai Lama is trying to turn AI-era holiday prep into a single workflow: get found by agents, convert the visit, raise order value and close the sale.