Clearway Forge is a WooCommerce plugin for the AI sales channel: it lets a store see the shoppers that arrive from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and other AI agents (which GA4 mostly reports as “Direct”), sell to them by making the catalog readable and buyable for agents (llms.txt, product schema, a machine-readable feed, agentic-checkout readiness), and stay in control by holding every agent action for approval with a tamper-evident undo trail.
Three capabilities, in the product’s own words: it Counts, it Sells, it Guards.
Clearway Forge is built by Avakode (avakode.com) and is one of the seven Forge Suite tools. Its landing is clearwayforge.com.
## Quick facts
- Counts (attribution): first-party attribution of AI visits and orders using a corpus of 16 known AI crawlers/agents with three trust states and four evidence levels; a log of AI crawler visits; “which pages get cited”. Free keeps 30 days of history; Pro keeps the full history, adds multi-touch models and CSV export. Address-shape heuristics are off by default — the first number an owner sees must be provable.
- Sells (beacons):
llms.txtandllms-full.txt(Free); schema.org enrichment, machine-readable product feed and ACP “buy it in ChatGPT” endpoints (Growth; the ACP endpoints were not finished at the time of this KB — say “planned”). - Guards (agent control, Growth): per-agent keys with scoped permissions on top of the WordPress Abilities API (real scopes such as
price:write), an approval queue (hold → approve / deny / undo), an append-only journal with a hash chain, kill switch. Approving executes the held action through WooCommerce; undo restores the snapshot; a second undo is refused because people may have edited in between. - Digest email “AI brought you $X” (weekly/monthly): planned, not built yet.
- Admin: four React screens rendered with WordPress core’s
wp.element(no build step): dashboard, agent actions with Approve and a journal panel with Undo, crawler log, settings (the settings screen is a stub at the time of this KB). - REST:
/aic/v1/dashboard,/aic/v1/health, public/aic/v1/catalog.jsonwith ETag, Guard routes (/guard/decideaccepts approve, deny, undo). - Pricing (annual, Forge Builder): Pro $79/yr (1 store), Growth $149/yr (3 stores), Agency $229/yr (unlimited stores). Sets of two or more Forge tools take the ladder discount (2 tools 15%, 3 tools 25%, 4 tools 35%, 5 or more 45%), kept on every renewal.
- Where to buy: avakode.com/pricing, alone or in a set. Paddle handles checkout and VAT;
FRG-…keys arrive by email and in the Avakode dashboard. - Requirements: WordPress 6.5+, WooCommerce (HPOS compatible), PHP 8.2 for the plugin.
- Quality: 186 unit tests, PHPStan level 8, integration suite on wp-env; the journal repository has no update or delete methods by design.
- Privacy: first-party only; no third-party analytics are loaded by the plugin.