AI is the new storefront. Trust leaves your site.

AI is the new storefront. Trust leaves your site.In the second episode of Assistant to the CMO, Lexie Meskouris speaks with Will Nash and Harjot Singh about whether AI now choosing what people buy opens a door for challenger brands or locks the biggest brands further ahead.A Bain and Walpole study found that 82% of high spend luxury shoppers now start with an AI, and both hosts agree the front door has moved. The real shift is trust. Buyers now lean on their own ChatGPT, which already knows their history and preferences, over a brand's own website. They agree the trust has left the brand's site, and they part ways on what that means next.One read is that AI keeps recommending the same trusted names, so the biggest brands get locked further in. The other is that AI is still easy to influence today, so a smaller brand with clean, clear product data can muscle past a 100 year old name. Either way the takeaway is the same. Make your product information clean and legible in the places the AI already looks.Highlights of this Episode Include:The Front Door Moved: 82% of high spend luxury shoppers now start with an AI, and both hosts call it a real signal.Buyers Trust Their AI: People now trust their own ChatGPT, which holds all their context, over your on site finder tool.Trust Lands Where You Don't Own It: AI does not value content on your own site, so the place buyers trust is no longer yours.Level the Field or Lock It: The core split, where AI either lets a clean challenger break in or keeps the same big names locked in.Lazy But Not Blind: The one point both hosts agree on, that AI grabs easy spec data but can still hold imprecise info without dropping you.Influencer Spend the AI Can't Read: Models read text, not Instagram comments, so a decade of influencer investment sits stranded.Same Homework Either Way: Whichever way it goes, the first move is the same, make your product data clean where the AI already looks.Listen and subscribe: https://AssistantToTheCMO.showLearn more about Aloudable: https://aloudable.com/Book a demo: https://aloudable.com/get-a-demoNew episodes of Assistant to the CMO land every Thursday.