Today Catalog synced 14 min ago

Wednesday, August 26

Where you stand, the three things worth doing about it, then what moved and what your published work earned.

What changed. Was: a Dashboard whose "to-do today" repeated the first three cards of Actions verbatim, plus a separate Action Center doing a third version of the same job. Now Today is the only screen that answers "what happened since I last looked," and it is the only place the three surfaces overlap by design.
Answer share
12% 3 of 25 tracked questions name FactionFab
+2 questions since Aug 1 Category average 19%

30 days. Each question re-checked every 6 hours.

What changed. Was: "46/100 Visibility score" with no definition, sitting beside "0 of 6 places buyers search where you appear," which contradicted it. One number, defined in the sentence next to it, with the denominator visible. A score you cannot recompute by hand is a score merchants will not believe.
Attributed revenue
$3,430 from 9 orders
Up from $840 in July 2 assets producing
Jun Jul Aug

Orders traced from an AI answer to checkout.

Why this sits beside answer share. Winning an answer is the input. Revenue is the only number that renews a subscription, so it belongs in the same glance, not three clicks away. When the pixel is quiet this cell says so rather than showing a smaller, safer-looking fake.
By engine
ChatGPT Live3 of 25
Perplexity Live1 of 25
Claude Live3 of 25
Gemini Live0 of 25
What changed. Was: nine channels listed (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI, Grok, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok), five of them labeled "Estimated," which the app itself defined as "simulation." Four engines, matching the brand and the site. Two are real on October 1. The other two say "October" and show nothing. Simulated data never renders as a result.

Worth doing today

Ranked by demand, gap size, and whether you hold data nobody else has.

See all 17
91High
FAQ block · Product page

Answer the 2024 WRX fitment question on your coilover product pages

Asked in all four engines and rising since the VB chassis refresh. Not one of them answers it with chassis-specific fitment, and you hold fitment data in your product metafields that no crawler can infer.

Question “Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX”

34 pages Uses your fitment data Open slot, nobody holds it
84High
Collection copy · Category page

Rewrite the coilovers collection page

34 products, 41 words of copy. Four tracked questions route buyers to this page, and it gives engines almost nothing to quote.

4 questions “Best budget coilovers for a daily driven WRX” and 3 more

Scheduled Aug 31 34 products
78Medium
Comparison guide · Blog post

Take back the Whiteline sway bar comparison

You lost this slot on August 24. Their page compares diameters. You have spring rates, bar rates, and 41 customer reviews mentioning body roll, and none of it is on a page an engine can read.

Question “FactionFab vs Whiteline sway bars”

Lost the slot Aug 24 Uses your spring rate data
What changed. Was: 47 unranked cards, several literal duplicates (two "What material are quilted jackets made from?", two identical comparison pages), each with the same boilerplate reason: "Competitors currently lead the answers for this question." Three items, each with a reason specific to this store, each naming the question it fights for, and marked when it draws on data only this merchant has. The other 34 are still in the queue and are not pretending to be urgent.

What changed this week

Only real movement. Quiet weeks say so.

All 25 questions
Gained
"Best budget coilovers for a daily driven WRX"

ChatGPT now names FactionFab third, behind Bilstein and Fortune Auto. Traced to the buyer's guide you published August 12.

Aug 24
Lost
"FactionFab vs Whiteline sway bars"

Whiteline published its own comparison page and took the top slot in both engines. Their page lists bar diameters and rates. Yours does not.

Aug 24
New question
"Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX"

Buyers started asking this after the VB chassis refresh. All four engines get the question and all four hedge. Nobody answers it with real fitment, including you.

Aug 22
Competitor
Subimods published 6 buyer's guides in 30 days

They now hold the top slot on 4 questions you track, up from 1 in July.

Aug 21

What your published work did

Every asset, from publish to order. This is the screen that decides renewals.

Revenue detail
Coilover buyer's guide for daily driven WRXs
Blog post · published Aug 12
Aug 14Indexed
2Answers
310Sessions
6Orders
$2,140Attributed
What spring rate should I run on a street WRX
FAQ · published Aug 8
Aug 9Indexed
1Answers
146Sessions
3Orders
$1,290Attributed
STI sway bar end link FAQ
FAQ · published Aug 26
Aug 28Indexed
None yetAnswers
12Sessions
0Orders
—Attributed
Assets typically take 3 to 6 weeks to appear in answers. A row with nothing in it yet is normal, not a failure.
Why this is new. There is nowhere in the current app to see what a published asset did. "Recently published (9)" is a collapsed line at the bottom of a 47-item list. This table is the proof Darren keeps asking for, and it is the reason a merchant renews in month three.

Answers

The 25 questions buyers ask about your category, what the engines say back, and why you are or are not in the answer.

What changed. Was: Research, a list of 30 checkbox rows with a "Ran today" stamp and a results table that mixed Live and Estimated rows. Same data, but the unit is now the answer, not the query. Every row can be opened to read the engine's actual words and the pages it cited. That is the evidence the Write queue rests on.
Question Demand ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Gemini Who wins it Checked
Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX
Fitment · rising
 40/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Nobody. All four hedge. 2h ago
Do FactionFab sway bars fit a 2024 WRX
Fitment
 50/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Nobody yet 2h ago
Do I need endlinks with a new sway bar
Jobs to be done
 55/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Nobody yet 2h ago
Is FactionFab made in the USA
Branded
 60/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Nobody yet 2h ago
FactionFab vs Whiteline sway bars
Comparison · lost Aug 24
 90/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Whiteline 2h ago
FactionFab coilovers review reddit
Branded · lost Aug 12
 110/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods 2h ago
Are FactionFab coilovers any good
Branded
 140/mo 1 1 1 Absent You do 2h ago
Best budget coilovers for a daily driven WRX
Category discovery · gained Aug 24
 210/mo 3 Absent 2 Absent Bilstein, Fortune Auto 2h ago
Alternatives to FactionFab
Alternatives
 30/mo 4 Absent 3 Absent Perrin, Grimmspeed 2h ago
Cheapest way to lower a WRX without ruining ride quality
Jobs to be done
 180/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Cobb Tuning, Subimods 2h ago
Best budget wheels for a WRX
Category discovery
 190/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods, Enkei 2h ago
How much drop is too much on a daily driven WRX
Jobs to be done
 180/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Cobb Tuning 2h ago
What spring rate should I run on a street WRX
Jobs to be done
 160/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent RalliTEK 2h ago
Best sway bars for reducing body roll on a WRX
Category discovery
 130/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Whiteline 2h ago
Best coilovers for a 2022 WRX VB chassis
Fitment
 120/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods 2h ago
What wheel offset for a lowered WRX
Fitment
 100/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods 2h ago
How long do coilovers last
Jobs to be done
 95/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Fortune Auto 2h ago
Are FactionFab wheels any good
Branded
 90/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods 2h ago
What is the best suspension for autocross WRX
Category discovery
 85/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Fortune Auto 2h ago
Will lowering my WRX void the warranty
Jobs to be done
 75/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subaru forums, RalliTEK 2h ago
What size sway bar for a 2015 STI
Fitment
 70/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods, RalliTEK 2h ago
Best coilovers for rough roads and winter
Category discovery
 65/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent RalliTEK 2h ago
FactionFab vs Cobb Tuning suspension
Comparison
 60/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Cobb Tuning 2h ago
FactionFab vs Perrin sway bars
Comparison
 45/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Perrin 2h ago
Sites like FactionFab
Alternatives
 25/mo Absent Absent Absent Absent Subimods, Grimmspeed 2h ago
1 your position in the answer Absent checked, not named Showing all 25. All four engines are asked live, every 6 hours.
What the four states mean, and why they are states and not tags. Was: chips reading "You win 3 / Close 5 / Absent 17", where "close" had no definition anyone could check. Every question is in exactly one state, and the four add to 25. Won, at least one engine names you. Open, no engine names you and no competitor holds it either, which makes these the cheapest wins on the board. Lost, you were named within the last 30 days and are not now, which is the only state with a clock on it. Absent, a competitor holds it and you have never been named. Intent is a separate axis because it answers a different question, so it is a dropdown rather than another row of chips competing for the same attention. The default order is the order of urgency, not alphabet or demand: open slots first because they are the cheapest to take, then what you just lost because that is the only state with a clock on it, then what you hold, then the long tail by demand.

Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX

ChatGPT · checked 2 hours ago

What ChatGPT said
FactionFab does list coilovers for the Subaru WRX, but I would confirm fitment directly with the seller before ordering. The 2024 WRX uses the VB chassis, which changed the front strut mounting compared with the previous VA generation, and not every listing makes clear which chassis it covers. Retailers such as Subimods and RalliTEK publish fitment charts you can check.
Pages it cited
1 Subaru WRX suspension fitment guide subimods.com
2 VA to VB chassis differences explained rallitek.com
3 2024 WRX coilover thread reddit.com/r/WRX
Why you are not in it

All three cited pages state chassis codes and mounting differences in plain text. Your coilover pages list part numbers and a "2015+ WRX" range, which does not answer the question a 2024 owner is asking.

What you have that they do not
  • MFitment metafields1,240 SKUs mapped to chassis codes
  • OOrder history318 coilover orders since the VB launch
  • RReviews41 mention fitment on a 2024 car
This panel is the whole argument. The current app tells a merchant they are absent and then hands them a generic blog post. This says what the engine actually said, which pages beat them, exactly what is missing, and which of their own non-crawlable data closes the gap. It is also the thing a competitor scraping public answers cannot replicate.

Queue

Seventeen items, ranked by what they are worth, grouped by where they live on your store.

What changed. Was: Actions and Action Center, 47 unranked cards with duplicates, filtered by content type only. One surface. Grouped by the three places content lives (product pages, category pages, blog and FAQ), which is how Darren describes the work and how a merchant thinks about their store. Ranked, deduped, and each one naming the buyer question it is meant to win.
You have published 7 things this month 2 scheduled · 15 waiting

Drafting, editing, and publishing are all included in your plan.

Answers won from published work
3 of 25 questions
What changed. Was: a credit meter against a 400 a month entitlement. Credits are out until usage-based pricing exists, since launch is one flat price and a meter would price something that is not for sale. The bar that replaced it answers the question a merchant actually has at the top of this screen: am I keeping up, and is any of it working.
Merged

Eleven near-duplicate suggestions became four. Three separate items all wanted a coilover buyer's guide, and two proposed the same sway bar comparison. One page can only win a question once, so Selix now merges them before you see them.

What changed. Was: the live queue contains two identical "What material are quilted jackets made from?" cards and two identical "quilted blankets, jackets, and hobo bags" comparison pages, presented as separate work. Deduplication happens before the merchant sees the list, and the app says it happened rather than hiding it.

Product pages

3 itemsWhere the buying decision happens
91High
FAQ block · Product page

2024 WRX fitment block for 34 coilover pages

Answers a question rising in all four engines that nobody currently answers. Built from your fitment metafields, so no competitor can copy it from a crawl.

Question “Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX”

Drafted
72Med
Spec block · Product page

Spring rate comparison block for 12 suspension pages

Three tracked questions ask about ride quality. Your spec sheets have the rates, the pages do not.

3 questions “What spring rate should I run on a street WRX” and 2 more

54Low
FAQ block · Product page

Install difficulty note for 22 sway bar pages

Comes up in reviews often. Low search demand, but it reduces returns.

No tracked question Suggested from 63 of your reviews

Category and collection pages

4 itemsWhere engines look for "best X" answers
84High
Collection copy · Category page

Rewrite the coilovers collection page

34 products, 41 words of copy. Four tracked questions route here.

4 questions “Best budget coilovers for a daily driven WRX” and 3 more

Scheduled Aug 31
69Med
New collections · Category page

Split the suspension collection by chassis

VA and VB buyers ask different questions. One page cannot rank for both.

2 questions “Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX” and 1 more

61Med
Collection copy · Category page

Buying guidance for the sway bars collection

Diameter, rate, and what each is for. Whiteline has this. You do not.

Question “What size sway bar for a 2015 STI”

43Low
Collection copy · Category page

Copy for the wheels collection

No tracked question routes here yet. Worth doing once something does.

No tracked question Nothing routes here yet

Blog posts and FAQs

10 itemsWhere a question gets a long answer
78Med
Comparison guide · Blog post

FactionFab vs Whiteline sway bars, compared honestly

You held this slot until August 24. Their page has diameters. You have rates, weights, and 41 reviews about body roll.

Question “FactionFab vs Whiteline sway bars”

Drafted
66Med
Buyer’s guide · Blog post

How much drop is too much on a daily driven WRX

180 searches a month. Currently answered by a Reddit thread from 2019.

Question “Cheapest way to lower a WRX without ruining ride quality”

58Med
Long-form FAQ · Blog post

What spring rate should I run on a street car

Extends the FAQ you published August 8, which is already winning one answer.

Question “What spring rate should I run on a street WRX”

29Low

7 more low-priority items

Below the line Selix recommends acting on this month.

The line matters. Everything scoring under 40 sits below a visible cutoff instead of padding the count. A queue is only useful if the app is willing to say which parts of it are not worth doing.

Revenue

What the answers you won were worth. Nothing on this screen is modeled or estimated.

What changed. Was: Insights, which drew a sessions chart labeled "Mock data shown," claimed a "strong relationship (r = 0.64)" against a visibility column reading 0% every day, and printed a weekly digest about ADAS calibration on a quilt store. If the pixel is not reporting, this screen shows setup instructions and no chart at all. A fabricated correlation is worse than an empty state, because a merchant who catches it once stops believing the rest of the product.
!

We cannot show attributed revenue yet

The Selix pixel is not reporting from your checkout. Until it does, there is no honest way to tell you which orders came from an AI answer, so this screen stays empty rather than guessing.

Open Settings, then Customer events in your Shopify admin

Custom pixels live here, not in the app section.

Add a custom pixel named Selix and paste the loader

About 12 lines. We keep it thin so we can update what it does without asking you to paste again.

Set customer privacy to Data sale opt-out, then Save

Selix records the referring answer, not the shopper.

Turn on "Pixel installed" in the left rail to see this screen with data.

Connection

Selix is not a Shopify app, so setup is a real 20 minutes. Here is exactly where you are in it.

What changed. Was: a Settings page offering "Log into Shopify to sync" and a field for an shpat_ Admin API token. Shopify stopped allowing admin-created custom apps on January 1, 2026, so that paste flow no longer exists. The real path is the merchant creating an app in Shopify's Dev Dashboard and handing over a Client ID and Client Secret. It is the top risk in the October 1 plan, so it gets a screen, not a form field.
CatalogSynced1,240 products, 14 min ago
CredentialsValidToken refreshed 3:12 PM
ScopesComplete7 of 7 granted
Checkout pixelNot installedBlocks revenue reporting
Why health is a permanent panel. Shopify sends no uninstall webhook under this model, and access tokens expire every 24 hours. Nothing tells Selix when a merchant revokes access or a scope drifts, so the app has to watch its own connection and say so in plain language.

Setup

3 of 5 stages done. About 4 minutes left.

✓

Create an app in Shopify's Dev Dashboard

Six steps, done August 20. This is a different area from Apps and sales channels, which is where most people look first.

✓

Grant the seven scopes Selix needs

Each one does a specific job. Nothing is requested that we do not use.

read_productswrite_contentread_orders write_productsread_contentread_metaobjectswrite_metaobjects
✓

Hand over the Client ID and Client Secret

Selix exchanges these for a fresh access token every 24 hours. The secret is encrypted at rest and you can rotate it here at any time, which cuts our access immediately.

Client ID  a4f2…9c11 Secret  •••••••••••• Next refresh 3:12 PM tomorrow
4

Install the checkout pixel

Three steps, about four minutes. Without it Selix can show you which answers you won, but not what they were worth, which is most of why you are here.

4 min
5

Confirm your first full sync

Unlocks once the pixel reports its first event.

Why this is a screen and not a wizard you exit. Onboarding takes 15 to 30 minutes across two Shopify admin areas, and it is the thing most likely to decide whether there are 10 paying customers by November 30. Merchants abandon partway through. A permanent, resumable checklist that says how many minutes are left, with a "do it with us" escape hatch on the hardest stage, is worth more than any polish elsewhere in the app.

Why this is not one click

Selix is not listed on the Shopify App Store. That means no app review, no revenue share on your subscription, and no third party sitting between us and your data. It also means these twenty minutes. We think it is the right trade, and we will do it with you on a call if you would rather not do it alone.

Voice & catalog

What Selix is allowed to say on your behalf, and which parts of your catalog it draws on.

Why this screen is new. Nothing in the current app lets a merchant control the voice of content published under their own brand, which is the single biggest reason a merchant would stop trusting the product after their first draft. This is also where the generic-copy problem gets fixed at the root rather than per draft.
How you sound

Learned from 34 of your existing pages. Edit anything that is wrong.

DirectTechnical, assumes knowledgeNumbers over adjectivesNo hypeSecond person
Never say
best in classunparalleledgame changingyou're in good company
What Selix may draw on
✓Product specs and metafields1,240 products, 86% with fitment data
✓Customer reviews2,180 reviews, used as quoted patterns only
✓Order and quantity dataUsed for "what people actually buy", never published raw
✕Customer names and emailsOff. Requires Shopify protected data approval.

Order and quantity data is the part no crawler and no competitor can see. It is why a Selix page can answer a question that a well-written blog post cannot.

Approval
Selix
Scan Result Tune Keep

See what AI assistants say about your store.

Enter your URL. We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini what they say about your category. No account, no card, and you see the whole result before you decide anything.

All four engines, asked live Nothing is written to your store No Shopify connection needed
The decision that reorders everything. Was: create an account, then connect a store, then wait to find out whether any of it was worth it. And the site’s "Connect your store" button dropped people into the sign-in path by mistake. Analyze first, sign up after. This is also the free check on the marketing site, so it is one flow rather than two, and it feeds the AI Shopping Index.

Reading factionfab.com

About ninety seconds. Close the tab if you like, we will email you the result either way.

This screen is also the capture step. Brand description, who you serve, tone of voice and competitor set are all being derived here, in the background. Nothing on the next screens asks the merchant for something Selix could have read for itself. Andrew’s rule from the Aug 29 call: capture the fields, do not expose them. The three groups are honest divisions of the work, which is why each one names what it found rather than spinning in place, and why the progress bar moves on real steps rather than on a timer pretending to be one.

The panel on the right is drawn in the browser, not a stock photo: satellite terrain generated from noise, in the v4 palette, with a purple sweep that runs only while the scan is running. It is the brand line made literal, and it means the one moment a merchant has to wait is the moment the product looks most like itself.

You are named in 3 of the 25 questions your buyers ask.

Here is the whole thing. No account needed to read it.

Answer share
12%3 of 25 questions
Category average 19%
Who wins your category
Subimods9 questions
Whiteline5 questions
RalliTEK4 questions
Nobody yet4 questions
Checked in
ChatGPT Checked3 of 25
Perplexity Checked1 of 25
Claude Checked3 of 25
Gemini Checked0 of 25

The four questions worth the most

Highest demand in your category, and where you stand on each today.

QuestionDemandYouWho wins it
Do FactionFab coilovers fit a 2024 WRX40/moAbsentNobody. Both engines hedge.
What size sway bar for a 2015 STI70/moAbsentSubimods, RalliTEK
Cheapest way to lower a WRX without ruining ride quality180/moAbsentCobb Tuning, Subimods
Best budget coilovers for a daily driven WRX210/mo3Bilstein, Fortune Auto

What ChatGPT says when someone asks about fitment

Checked 2 minutes ago. Claude hedges the same way. Perplexity and Gemini do not name you at all.

FactionFab does list coilovers for the Subaru WRX, but I would confirm fitment directly with the seller before ordering. The 2024 WRX uses the VB chassis, which changed the front strut mounting compared with the previous VA generation. Retailers such as Subimods and RalliTEK publish fitment charts you can check.
Pages it cited
1 Subaru WRX suspension fitment guide subimods.com
2 VA to VB chassis differences explained rallitek.com
3 2024 WRX coilover thread reddit.com/r/WRX
Why you are not in it

All three cited pages state chassis codes in plain text. Your coilover pages list part numbers and a "2015+ WRX" range, which does not answer what a 2024 owner is asking.

Everything, before the account. Jenn’s call on Aug 29. The account is for keeping this and watching it change, not for seeing it. A gate here would trade the one moment that proves the product for an email address, and the merchant who signs up to see a number they have not seen is the merchant who churns in month two. The next three screens are still pre-account: they tune what gets monitored.

Did we read you right?

We took this from your site. Fix anything wrong, or leave it and move on.

Business name
What you sell
Who you serve

We picked up eleven other things about your store, including your tone of voice. You can edit those inside Selix once you are in.

Three fields, and they are already filled. Was: a positioning step asking for name, URL, description, niche, and audience on a blank form, plus a separate brand voice page. The niche field is cut, the URL field is cut because it was typed one screen ago, and the brand voice page is cut entirely. What is left is a correction task, not a form. Jenn’s reason on the call: "I don’t want people to be like, now I got to fill this out."

These six brands keep turning up in your answers.

Remove anyone who is not really a competitor. Add anyone we missed.

subimods.com whiteline.com.au rallitek.com cobbtuning.com perrinperformance.com grimmspeed.com
A URL is the whole input. Jenn on the call: "I don’t think you even add the name, I’d say you just drop in the URL and it captures that." Asking for a company name as well is a second field that produces nothing Selix cannot read from the site itself.

These are the questions we will watch.

Re-checked every six hours. Uncheck anything that is not your business, and add your own.

18 more questions, all checked.
24 of 25 selected
Twenty five, not two hundred. Jenn liked BeVisible’s add and remove pattern here and said the volume was the problem: "we don’t need to give this many." A list a person can actually read in one sitting is a list they will edit. A list of two hundred is one they will skip, and a skipped list is a monitoring set nobody owns.

Keep this, and watch it change.

Sign in and monitoring starts on all 25 questions. There is no password to make or forget.

or
Email

We send a link to sign in, good for 15 minutes.

Google first, on purpose. Most Shopify merchants are already signed in to a Google account on the browser they are standing in, so it is one click and no tab switch. A magic link is two clicks and a trip to an inbox, which is where a signup goes to die. The email path stays because plenty of stores run on their own domain mail, and because it keeps the promise on the line below: no password to make or forget.

What happens next

1Your 25 questions get re-checkedIn about 6 hours
2Your first drafts are ready to reviewToday
3Connect Shopify when you want revenue attribution20 minutes, whenever

Selix works without connecting a store. Connecting one lets us publish for you and tell you what the answers earned.

Shopify is explicitly not now. Andrew on the call: “we’re not going to be connected to a store initially, because they don’t have to sync it.” That has a consequence beyond this screen. The twenty minute Dev Dashboard setup stops being a gate and becomes a mid-product upgrade, offered once the merchant has seen something worth connecting for. Which is also why the Sources panel in the editor splits store data from open-web data: it is what earns the connection later.
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