Shopper Zero, in facts
Last updated Oct 29, 2026. Plain text for AI tools: shopperzero.com/llms.txt
A mystery shopper for AI assistants: an AI shopper asks a US Shopify store what buyers ask and tries to buy, on the routes assistants use, and shows the owner where the sale was lost.
What it is
- Shopper Zero tests whether AI shopping assistants can buy from an online store. It starts with Shopify stores that sell to US customers.
- The owner gives only the store’s web address. Nothing is installed in the store.
- An AI shopper runs ten shopping tasks written from the store’s own products, each one twice, in a real web browser, as a first-time guest.
- Every step is recorded as a screenshot, so the owner can replay exactly where a sale was lost.
- The report ranks the fixes by how many tasks each one stopped, with wording a developer can act on.
- Four buyer’s questions (delivery time and cost, returns, how to contact the store, the first-order discount) are asked on seven routes an assistant uses: the product page, the home page, the policy page, the FAQ pages, the product data search engines read, and the store’s own agent connection, plainly and by policy name.
- A Black Friday pre-flight checks that the routes made for AI agents are open, that robots.txt doesn’t shut assistants out, and what to check in the Shopify admin before a site freeze.
- The AI shopper stands in for consumer assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity; it is not one of them.
- A person reads every report before it is sent, so Shopper Zero takes up to 20 tests a day.
Prices, in US dollars
- Agent Test: $149, one time
- Ten tasks, each run twice; the replay of every lost sale; the fixes in order; the buyer’s questions on every route; the Black Friday pre-flight; a free re-check within 14 days; the report the same day.
- Agent Watch: $99 a month per store
- The same ten tasks every Monday, compared with the week before, with an email only when something gets worse. Cancel online at any time in two clicks; it runs to the end of the month paid for.
- Full audit: $1,200 ($450 for the first five stores)
- Twenty-five tasks, runs with the real assistants, a call and a re-check within 30 days. Arranged by email.
- Agency plan: From $499 a month for ten client stores
- Reports under the agency’s name. Arranged by email.
- Free check: Free, no account
- Whether an AI shopper can learn the store’s delivery time and cost, on every route, in up to 30 seconds. Read-only.
What the shopper never does
- Pays, or types into a card or password field. Every trip stops the moment it reaches the checkout.
- Signs in or creates an account.
- Types a name, email address or phone number, sends a form, signs up for emails or confirms a booking.
- Gets around a bot check, CAPTCHA or block. If it is turned away, it stops and the report says so.
- Leaves the store for other websites.
- Tests a store whose owner has not booked it, except for the public, read-only Agent Shopping Index, which visits public pages only and names no store.
Limits
- Shopify stores selling to US customers first. Other platforms are read for the buyer’s questions but not yet sold to.
- The shopper does not use WebMCP or UCP to buy; it walks the store’s pages the way a browsing assistant does, and reads the agent routes without buying through them.
- Results are not a score out of 100. They are tasks completed, lost, or not counted.
- Screenshots are deleted 90 days after each report.
- Launched in October 2026; no public reviews yet.
Who runs it
ZER0XCEPTION TECHNOLOGY LLP, India. The website runs on Cloudflare; the shopper runs from the United States (AWS, us-east-1). Contact hello@shopperzero.com. Shopper Zero isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Shopify, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity or Meta.