# Variants and titles use the words shoppers type

> Variant names and product titles lead with explicit, literal attributes (category, size, color, material, use-case) an agent can map to a user's query, not internal codes or brand-only names.

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- **Affects (funnel stage):** Matching
- **Evidence:** hypothesis
- **Confidence:** Low
- **Impact:** 2/3
- **Status:** active
- **Last verified:** 2026-07-08

## Per-platform status

Undocumented platforms show "unknown" - honest unknowns, never invented.

| Platform | Status | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Gemini / Google AI Mode | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Perplexity | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Copilot | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Claude | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |

## Evidence and sources

This is a hypothesis (our own inference); no external source is cited.

## How to act on this

Read variant names and titles cold: rewrite any that don't lead with the literal attribute or category phrase a shopper would search.

### Related checklist items
- [Name variants with explicit attributes (size/color/material) a machine can disambiguate, not "Style A".](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-02) (Selection)
- [Lead titles with the words shoppers type (category + attribute + use-case), not brand-only names.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-product-content-04) (Selection)

### Handbook chapters
- [Information Density: Facts Per Token on Machine Surfaces](https://agentmint.net/handbook/information-density/)

### Related signals
- [Facts per token, complete against peers](https://agentmint.net/signals/facts-per-token/)
- [Descriptions answer relayed buyer questions](https://agentmint.net/signals/buyer-question-descriptions/)