AI engines refer shoppers
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity what to buy, the answers point to product pages — millions of times a day.
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How it works
We track millions of referrals from every major AI engine — and turn the signal into a real-time view of products picking up traffic in your niche.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity what to buy, the answers point to product pages — millions of times a day.
Through Semrush's 200M+ clickstream panel we see every visit a shopper makes from an AI answer — across 9 engines and 7 countries.
Niches, products, growth %, saturation — surfaced in real time. Catch winners before everyone else gets the memo.
Customer stories
Real founders, brand strategists and product researchers using AI Trends to find their next launch — months before the rest of the market notices.
“Found our hero product three months before it trended on TikTok. We did $180k in pre-orders the first week.”
“AI Trends caught a German spike on hybrid smart watches. We pivoted our entire category inside two weeks.”
“ChatGPT was already pushing traffic to low-profile keyboards. We built a category page and ranked in 30 days.”
“Drones scored 91 on opportunity in March. We launched a sub-brand and hit profitability by month two.”
“Smart baby monitors were rising on Perplexity weeks before competitors noticed. Day one of our launch — sold out.”
“I check the dashboard every Monday morning. That's where I found compact strollers — now our #2 SKU.”
“Caught a 213% spike on a niche I'd never have considered. Three months in, it's our highest-margin SKU.”
“Found our hero product three months before it trended on TikTok. We did $180k in pre-orders the first week.”
“AI Trends caught a German spike on hybrid smart watches. We pivoted our entire category inside two weeks.”
“ChatGPT was already pushing traffic to low-profile keyboards. We built a category page and ranked in 30 days.”
“Drones scored 91 on opportunity in March. We launched a sub-brand and hit profitability by month two.”
“Smart baby monitors were rising on Perplexity weeks before competitors noticed. Day one of our launch — sold out.”
“I check the dashboard every Monday morning. That's where I found compact strollers — now our #2 SKU.”
“Caught a 213% spike on a niche I'd never have considered. Three months in, it's our highest-margin SKU.”
“ChatGPT was answering 'best vlog camera' with brands I'd never heard of. Caught it early, ranked #2 in 90 days.”
“Saw a 174% spike on portable projectors before Black Friday. Months ahead of where Google Trends gets you.”
“Our Q4 hero was a Qi-3 charging pad we found here in August. We were the only brand on Amazon when demand hit.”
“Speaker traffic from Perplexity was up 89%. We launched an outdoor variant — fastest sellout we've ever had.”
“Color e-readers were a 'maybe' on our roadmap. AI Trends showed Gemini users asking constantly. Built it. Shipped it.”
“Wooden Montessori sets were everywhere on ChatGPT for new parents. We built a curated bundle and sold 2,400 in two weeks.”
“Smart bottle warmers were rising fast in the US baby niche. Two of ours went into a Buy Buy Baby SKU spotlight.”
“ChatGPT was answering 'best vlog camera' with brands I'd never heard of. Caught it early, ranked #2 in 90 days.”
“Saw a 174% spike on portable projectors before Black Friday. Months ahead of where Google Trends gets you.”
“Our Q4 hero was a Qi-3 charging pad we found here in August. We were the only brand on Amazon when demand hit.”
“Speaker traffic from Perplexity was up 89%. We launched an outdoor variant — fastest sellout we've ever had.”
“Color e-readers were a 'maybe' on our roadmap. AI Trends showed Gemini users asking constantly. Built it. Shipped it.”
“Wooden Montessori sets were everywhere on ChatGPT for new parents. We built a curated bundle and sold 2,400 in two weeks.”
“Smart bottle warmers were rising fast in the US baby niche. Two of ours went into a Buy Buy Baby SKU spotlight.”
Inside the platform
One dashboard turning 200M+ AI shopper clicks into the signal that matters: which niches are heating up, in which country, on which engine — and exactly how saturated they already are.
Live signal feed
Every click from every AI engine to every product page — streamed in from the Semrush 200M+ panel and aggregated by niche, country and engine.
Coverage
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Overview, AI Mode — all in one view.
Saturation index
Per-niche competitor density — so you commit inventory only to lanes that aren't crowded yet.
Taxonomy
Drill from broad category to single product — every node has its own growth %, top brands and live AI queries.
Refresh cadence
Pipeline ingests overnight, recomputes growth, saturation and brand share — fresh on the dashboard before you wake up.
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