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Product Data Is the Source the Agents Read with Ben Riggle of Channable

Oct 5, 2026 · 11 min · 8 segments

Isaac Morey sat down with Ben Riggle at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Ben is the managing director for Channable in North America, and Channable takes a retailer's product data and optimizes it for each…

Isaac Morey sat down with Ben Riggle at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Ben is the managing director for Channable in North America, and Channable takes a retailer's product data and optimizes it for each surface the products go out on. We cover the difference between agentic discovery and agentic checkout, why Ben thinks the word agentic may fade into search and discovery, why product data is the source agents and LLMs rely on, the 30 conversational attributes Google added, why rules fix more than AI does when AI is checking AI, Ben's definition of AI slop, the AI readiness tracker Channable launched, and his hot take on data control. Channable is at channable.com.

Isaac Morey sat down with Ben Riggle at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Ben is the managing director for Channable in North America, and Channable takes a retailer's product data and optimizes it for each…

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Show signals: SuitabilitySafeBiasNot politicalAudience≈24 followers

Speakers: Ben RiggleGuestIsaac MoreyHostBrent PetersonHost

Top entities: Artificial intelligence×12 Large language model×9 Shopify×2 Google×7 Nashville×6

What Is AI Slop?6:55 – 7:32

I

Isaac MoreyHost

6:55

Well, this seems like a good place to shoehorn in the fun question that we've been asking-

B

Ben RiggleGuest

6:59

Oh, okay, great

I

Isaac MoreyHost

6:59

... as content nerds.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:00

Yeah.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:01

Um, just to get people's different takes on, and it's been kind of interesting.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:04

How would you define AI slop?

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:06

Uh, I think AI slop is stuff that's written by AI and read by AI and then, uh, regurgitated by people, uh, without understanding, right? So for me it's like, you know, if an AI writes it, and uh, your AI is reading it and giving you a summary, you've just got AIs talking to, to each other.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:23

So, uh, for me it's, you know, not...

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:26

It, it's content that's not well thought out and, uh, theories that maybe haven't been, uh... had a lot of brainpower behind them.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:32

Yeah.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:32

Thanks for that.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:32

Yeah.

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97%12 mentions
Large language modelEntity
91%9 mentions
ShopifyCompanyE-commerce company
85%2 mentions
GoogleCompanyTechnology corporation
79%7 mentions
NashvilleCityCity in Tennessee
74%6 mentions
ChatGPTSoftware ApplicationSoftware
68%4 mentions
AI agentEntity
62%3 mentions
North AmericaContinentContinent
56%3 mentions
ClaudeSoftware ApplicationSoftware
50%3 mentions
Amazon.comCompanyMultinational conglomerate company
44%2 mentions
TikTok ShopEntity
38%1 mention
MetaCompanyTechnology company
32%2 mentions
Michael KeatonPersonAmerican actor and filmmaker
26%1 mention
San DiegoCityCity in California
21%1 mention
Huntington BeachCityCity in California
15%1 mention
CommerceEntity
9%1 mention
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Generative AI GovernanceTechnology > Artificial Intelligence
AI Search VisibilityMarketing > Digital Marketing > Search Marketing
Product Information ManagementBusiness > E-commerce
Agentic Product Discovery and CheckoutTechnology > Artificial Intelligence > AI Agents > Agentic Commerce
Product Feed OptimizationBusiness > E-commerce > Product Information Management
Multichannel Commerce Data DistributionBusiness > E-commerce > Product Information Management > Product Feed Optimization
Product Data Quality for LLM RecommendationsMarketing > Digital Marketing > Search Marketing > AI Search Visibility
AI-Generated Content QualityTechnology > Artificial Intelligence > Generative AI Governance
Guardrails for Automated Product Q&ATechnology > Artificial Intelligence > Generative AI Governance > AI-Generated Content Quality
Commerce OperationsBusiness > E-commerce
AI Readiness AssessmentBusiness > E-commerce > Commerce Operations
Shopify and Google Merchant Feed EnrichmentBusiness > E-commerce > Commerce Operations > AI Readiness Assessment
Search MarketingMarketing > Digital Marketing
Agentic CommerceTechnology > Artificial Intelligence > AI Agents
E-commerceBusiness
AI AgentsTechnology > Artificial Intelligence
Digital MarketingMarketing
Technology
Business
Marketing
Artificial IntelligenceTechnology

What Is AI Slop?6:55 – 7:32

I

Isaac MoreyHost

6:55

Well, this seems like a good place to shoehorn in the fun question that we've been asking-

B

Ben RiggleGuest

6:59

Oh, okay, great

I

Isaac MoreyHost

6:59

... as content nerds.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:00

Yeah.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:01

Um, just to get people's different takes on, and it's been kind of interesting.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:04

How would you define AI slop?

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:06

Uh, I think AI slop is stuff that's written by AI and read by AI and then, uh, regurgitated by people, uh, without understanding, right? So for me it's like, you know, if an AI writes it, and uh, your AI is reading it and giving you a summary, you've just got AIs talking to, to each other.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:23

So, uh, for me it's, you know, not...

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:26

It, it's content that's not well thought out and, uh, theories that maybe haven't been, uh... had a lot of brainpower behind them.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:32

Yeah.

I

Isaac MoreyHost

7:32

Thanks for that.

B

Ben RiggleGuest

7:32

Yeah.

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