Part of GEOly's "GEO / AEO Expert Watch" series · meet **Kyle Risley**, a quick map of their public work and where to follow them — with links to the original sources.
Who is Kyle Risley
Kyle Risley is Senior SEO Lead at Shopify, where he shapes SEO strategy for the e-commerce platform and hosts community office hours for merchants. Before Shopify he worked in SEO at TripAdvisor and VistaPrint, spanning travel, SaaS and e-commerce.
These experts look further ahead: as AI agents begin to compare, decide and even purchase for users, the entrance to commerce shifts from "humans clicking links" to "agents reading data." This is the layer after GEO. Their recurring focus areas include: Shopify SEO, platform SEO, official Shopify.
What GEO / AEO practitioners can learn from Kyle Risley
- **Product data becomes the fuel**: structured, accurate, machine-readable product information decides whether your items enter an agent’s consideration set. - **Trust and rules**: governance of payments, liability and authorization determines whether an agent dares transact with you on a user’s behalf. - **Agent Experience (AX)**: after UX, making AI agents understand and choose you efficiently becomes the new discipline.
**GEOly angle**: Platform-level, insider guidance on making Shopify stores visible in AI-driven shopping search.
What it means for brands going global
For DTC and ecommerce brands going global, agentic commerce is both threat and opportunity: the sooner you shape product data, reviews and trust signals into a machine-readable, trustworthy form, the more likely you are to be chosen in agent-led shopping.
Follow Kyle Risley: homepage & socials
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylerisley/) - [Company](https://www.shopify.com/blog/authors/kyle-risley)
To meet more experts across GEO, AEO and agentic commerce, visit the [GEOly author hub](/blog/author).
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