AI assistants are becoming shoppers. I launched a $149 check that shows whether your store breaks them — tear my offer apart

People have started asking AI assistants to find and buy things for them. When one of those agents lands on a normal store, one of two things happens: it completes the journey, or it quietly leaves. Nobody sees the failed visit. The store owner never knows it happened.

I run a tiny bootstrapped software company (Stelar Digital) on nights and weekends around a 70–80 hour/week day job. We build Shopify apps, and watching the agent-commerce wave build, I kept coming back to one question: can an AI actually buy from an ordinary store today? Popups, cookie walls, carts that update without confirming, bot rules that block automated visitors from cart and checkout by default — a human shrugs past all of that. An agent gets stuck and leaves.

So I built AI Store Shopper aistoreshopper.com and launched it this week.

What it is: one store, one walk, one report — $149.

A real browser, driven by an AI buying agent, walks your store the way a customer would:

1. Find — can it get from your homepage to a product page using your own navigation?
2. Read — can it read price, stock, and options?
3. Cart — can it actually add an item, or does an overlay or broken button stop it?
4. Checkout — can it reach your checkout page? It stops there. It never places an order, never enters payment details, never types into any of your forms.

We also check whether your store is accidentally blocking AI shoppers at the door entirely. You get a grade for each area against a versioned rubric (disclosed in full with every report), every finding as a plain test result — what the agent tried, what happened — and the fix for each break, written so you can hand it to your developer. No login, no admin access, no app install; the agent browses your public storefront under a named identity.

One detail I had fun with: the check itself can be bought machine-to-machine — an AI agent can discover and pay for it without a human in the loop. Felt wrong to sell an agent-readiness check that an agent couldn't buy.

Honest status: launched days ago, US merchants only for now, and I don't yet know if the market wants this. That's why I'm posting.

What I'd love brutal feedback on:

1. Does the promise land in 10 seconds on the landing page, or do you have to work for it?
2. Pricing: is $149 one-time right? Too cheap to be credible, or too much for a dated snapshot?
3. If you run a store: would you buy this? If not — what's the missing piece that would make you?
4. Timing: is "AI shoppers" a real problem for merchants today, or am I 18 months early?

I'll answer everything. Swing hard.