Mirakl moves into AEO infrastructure

Mirakl is trying to become the plumbing between retailer catalogs and AI shopping agents, not just the software behind marketplace websites. The move into AEO turns the same raw material that powered SEO growth, product pages, seller feeds, price and inventory data, into machine readable inputs for ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity. In practice, Nexus sits above a retailer’s commerce stack, cleans and enriches catalog data, then exposes it through APIs and MCP so an AI agent can find products, compare options, check availability and hand off to checkout.

• Mirakl has unusual distribution for this bet. It already serves 450 plus marketplaces and 100k plus sellers, so AEO can be sold as an add on to merchants that already trust Mirakl for onboarding sellers, syncing catalogs and taking marketplace commissions.
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• This extends the same marketplace logic that made SEO valuable. More third party assortment means more product pages, more long tail queries covered, and now more chances for an LLM to recognize a merchant as a valid source with current pricing and inventory, not just a branded storefront.
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• The product is broader than traffic acquisition. Mirakl pairs discovery with transaction rails through Stripe and J.P. Morgan Payments, which means the goal is not only being mentioned in an answer, but letting an agent complete the order without each retailer building custom integrations.
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The next step is a shift from marketplace software to agentic commerce infrastructure. If AI shopping becomes a meaningful demand channel, merchants will want one layer that keeps catalogs visible, prices fresh and checkout trusted across every model endpoint, and that is the role Mirakl is positioning Nexus to own.