The CRS MVP is a standalone Shopify product with monthly or annual subscriptions. The full CITAQ verification platform is a separate credit-based system in development.
CRS scans your Shopify product data, crawlability, structured data, and scoring modules. It does not verify claims, store evidence, or grant access to the full CITAQ platform.
CRS is the live entry product for CITAQ. It does not verify claims or store evidence. It shows which Shopify products are difficult for AI systems to parse, retrieve, or cite.
Use CRS when you need product-level scoring, monitoring, recommendations, exports, and score history. Use the future CITAQ platform when you need claim verification, evidence records, public trust surfaces, and machine-readable verification access.
CRS subscriptions do not become CITAQ platform credits. The products are priced separately because they do different jobs.
CRS diagnoses catalog readiness. Merchants who identify claim, evidence, compliance, or trust gaps through CRS will have a clear path into evidence vaulting, verification records, public trust pages, and machine-readable verification access as the broader platform becomes available.
The full platform prices verification like infrastructure: reads are free, and operations consume credits. An idle catalog produces no platform charges.
CITAQ credits are for the full verification platform: evidence verification, governed pipeline execution, audit cycles, and infrastructure work. They are not CRS subscription scans.
Viewing status, reports, settings, and dashboards does not consume credits.
Verification, evidence work, and audit cycles consume platform credits.
High-cost operations show the estimated credit cost before confirmation.
No expiry. No minimum spend. No forced upgrade.
| Area | CRS MVP | CITAQ Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Available now | In development |
| Pricing model | Subscription | Credit-based |
| Primary buyer | Shopify merchant | Merchant, agency, API operator |
| Scope | AI readiness scoring only | Cryptographic verification infrastructure |
| Product limit | 10 to 500 monitored products | Usage-based |
| Scan budget | 30 to 2,500 scans/month | Credits per operation |
| Copy generation | Not included | Included for governed copy workflows |
| Claim verification | Not included | Included in platform pipeline |
| Evidence vault | Not included | Included |
| Migration path | Yes, CRS subscribers get a path | Native platform access |
No. CRS is a standalone MVP subscription for Shopify scoring. The full CITAQ platform remains credit-based and separate.
One scan is one complete standalone CRS engine execution on one product. Viewing an existing result is free.
No. CRS scan budgets reset on the 1st of each month at 00:00 UTC.
CRS is the entry readiness layer for CITAQ. As the full platform matures, deeper workflows such as claim verification, evidence vaulting, public trust pages, and machine-readable verification records will move into the broader CITAQ platform. CRS subscribers will receive a clear migration path when those workflows become available.
No. CRS reads your existing Shopify data, scores it, and tells you what to fix. It does not generate or rewrite copy.
No. Platform credits do not expire. They are unrelated to CRS subscription scans.