# BYOM Shopify app | Kina is the AI operator in BYOM

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Last updated: 2026-10-04

> Connect the AI assistant you already use to your Shopify store. Read your catalogue, find what AI shoppers cannot see and approve every fix. Free plan with 2,000 reads and 100 confirmed changes a month.

## What it is

BYOM: AI Connector & Control (Public Shopify app). Connects the AI assistant a merchant already uses to their Shopify store, with a confirm step before every change, a record of each one, undo and an AI shopping readiness scan.

## Capabilities

- Connect your AI assistant: Connect the AI assistant you already use to your Shopify store.
- Live catalogue reads: Your assistant reads your catalogue and stock live from the store.
- Confirm before change: Every write is a proposal on a confirm card. Unconfirmed proposals expire quickly.
- Product updates: BYOM writes approved product updates, each confirmed by you.
- Store pages, FAQ and product details AI can read: Proposed fixes for AI shoppers, each confirmed before the store changes.
- AI shopping readiness scan: Scores the installed store product by product through Shopify, with a score trend scan by scan.
- Catalogue health: The fields AI shoppers filter on, product by product.
- How AI shoppers see your products: Search your store the way an AI shopper does and see which products come back.
- Why a product is invisible: The exact reasons a product cannot be found by AI shoppers, and what would fix them.
- AI traffic: Visits arriving from AI assistants.
- Receipts and activity log: What changed, when and who confirmed it. Activity log kept for 30 days on the free plan.
- Undo product changes: An undo is a proposal that puts back exactly what was there, confirmed like any change.
- Store text is treated as data: Instructions found inside product or catalogue text are reported to the merchant, never acted on.
- Collection updates: Collection titles, descriptions and SEO fields, proposed and confirmed like any change.
- Redirects and site files for AI: Fix broken links with redirects and publish a summary AI can read of your store, each confirmed first.
- Ask anything about your catalogue: Questions about products, variants, prices and stock answered from live store data.
- Stock by location: Inventory levels across your store locations.
- Daily brief: What changed, what is waiting and what to look at next, on request in your assistant.
- Did it work?: After a change, see what happened next for the products you changed.
- Governance export: Export the record of every confirmed change for your team, client or auditor.
- Order and customer reads: Your assistant answers order and customer questions.
- Shopify App Store listing: Coming to the Shopify App Store.

## Free plan

- 2,000 reads a month
- 100 confirmed changes a month
- 3 stores
- 30-day activity log
- Limits apply per company, per calendar month.

## Shopify App Store listing

Coming to the Shopify App Store. Join the list and we will email you the day it is live.

## Safety

- Every change is a proposal the merchant confirms. Unconfirmed proposals expire quickly.
- Instructions found inside product or catalogue text are reported to the merchant, never acted on.
- The assistant never asks for a Shopify password or key.

## The next rung

The app gets your store seen. BYOM gives you Kina, an assistant that helps you run more of the business yourself, from £200 a month.

## Questions

- What is the BYOM Shopify app? BYOM: AI Connector & Control is a free Shopify app. It connects the AI assistant you already use to your Shopify store, with a confirm step before every change, a record of each one, undo and an AI shopping readiness scan.
- Is the BYOM Shopify app free? Yes. The free plan includes 2,000 reads a month, 100 confirmed changes a month, 3 stores, 2 connected assistants at a time and an activity log kept for 30 days. Limits apply per company, per calendar month.
- Is the app on the Shopify App Store? It is coming to the Shopify App Store. Join the list and we will email you the day it is live.
- Can the assistant change my store without me? No. Your assistant proposes and you confirm. Every write is a proposal on a confirm card, and unconfirmed proposals expire quickly.
- What can the assistant read today? Products, collections, variants, prices and stock, including stock by location, answered live from your store. Orders and customers too, so an order question is answered from the order.
- Can I undo a product change? Yes. An undo is a proposal that puts back exactly what was there, and you confirm it like any other change. The activity log records what changed, when, and who confirmed it.
- Does the app show what AI shoppers can see? Yes. The readiness scan runs on your installed store through Shopify. It checks catalogue health, shows why a product is invisible to shopping agents, and proposes fixes for you to confirm.
- What is the difference between the free app and BYOM? The app gets your store seen. BYOM gives you Kina, an operator that helps you run more of the business yourself, from £200 a month. Kina is the AI operator in BYOM.
