Your First 30 Days with an AEO App: What Comergent AI Sets Up and When

The most common question before installing an AEO app: "How long does this take to set up and when do results start?" Here's the exact answer, what happens automatically, what needs your time, and the median timeline to your first AI-referred order.

Day 1: Install and automatic setup

What Comergent AI does automatically: Reads your Shopify catalog, generates your llms.txt file and places it at your root domain, audits your robots.txt to confirm AI crawlers have access, activates Revenue Attribution, and initializes Prompt Watch monitoring for your product category.

What you do: Install the app (5 minutes). Complete the onboarding form: brand description, top 5 product categories, 3–5 competitors to track (20 minutes).

Perplexity typically indexes a new llms.txt within 24–48 hours of it going live.

Days 2–3: Prompt Watch data appears

Within 48 hours, Prompt Watch shows you buyer queries in your category currently sending traffic to ChatGPT and Perplexity, which competitor stores appear in those answers, and the "prompts you're losing" list.

What you do: Review Prompt Watch data and identify your top 10 priority prompts. Time required: 30–45 minutes.

Days 4–7: Content Sonic rewrites

Content Sonic generates product description rewrites for your top 20 SKUs, the products most likely to appear in the priority prompts.

What you do: Review and approve the rewrites. Time required: 45–60 minutes for 20 products. Don't delay, every day without the rewritten content is a day without citations building.

Days 8–14: First citations appear

With llms.txt live and product descriptions rewritten, your store starts appearing in AI answers. You may also start seeing chat.openai.com or perplexity.ai appear in Shopify's referral traffic report.

Days 22–30: First orders

Day 24 (median). The first AI-referred Shopify order appears in Revenue Attribution. An order tagged "Referred by: ChatGPT", a real purchase from a buyer who asked an AI what to buy and was told your store.

By day 30: 8–15 AI-referred orders for an average $50K/month store, citations across 20–40 buyer prompts, and Revenue Attribution showing cumulative AI-referred revenue by platform.

Summary timeline

Day	What happens
1	Install, llms.txt live, Prompt Watch active
2–3	Prompt Watch data: competitor prompts visible
4–7	Content Sonic rewrites generated and approved
8–14	First AI citations appear
15–21	Second content batch, Competitor Watch active
22–30	First AI-referred Shopify orders
30	Revenue Attribution shows cumulative AI revenue by platform

Setup time from your end: approximately 3–4 hours total across the first week, then 1–2 hours per month for content review after that. No developer required.