Beat the AI Search Shift
Is your brand invisible to AI? 🤖 Lantern is launching a $99 tool to help e-commerce sellers get recommended by ChatGPT and other LLMs.
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A successful online store owner asked ChatGPT to rank his audio equipment, and the chatbot completely ignored his brand. That shocking realization led Headphones.com founder Andrew Lysimour to build a revolutionary solution.
He launched a startup called Lantern. Now, Lantern is pivoting to help e-commerce brands survive the cutting-edge shift to AI search.
Lysimour calls this transition the most important evolution since the invention of search engines. He watched brands struggle, realizing people would be stuck grasping at straws without next-generation tools.
So Lantern built an internal model to predict product visibility in AI-powered queries. This first-of-its-kind tool advises niche e-commerce sellers on how to get recommended by LLMs.
The service costs just $99 a month, with custom pricing for enterprise clients. To fund this expansion, Lantern is raising fresh capital to hire engineers and bankroll AI tokens.
This follows a $3.1 million seed round led by Salesforce Ventures back in 2025. Now, Lantern is raising to secure its place in a highly competitive, unprecedented new era of generative engine optimization.
