Standby

Your AI shopper. Your rules. Your money.

You find it.
Standby waits for the right moment to buy it.

It watches the page diligently and acts when the right opportunity comes along, within the limits and requirements you set. Two independent AI checks review the purchase, while built-in safeguards enforce your limits before a purchase can proceed.

Any shopping page that accepts PayPal. Standby reads it and shows you what it found.

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Watching for1 left-wing ticket under $40
New listing on Tixora
Section 103 · Row H$35 + $14 fees
  • ScoutAI · Gemini

    Left wing, but fees make it $49.

    …
  • BankerAI · Claude

    Over your budget once fees are added.

    …
  • VaultHard-coded lock

    $49 is over your $40 limit.

    …

Standby in real life

Two moments where you can't simply click Buy, and what Standby does about them.

Context-driven shopping

The dress you already found

  1. The moment

    You find a red dress you love on a shopping website, but your size is unavailable, or the price is too high.

  2. You

    You paste the product link into Standby. It extracts the available sizes, price, product details and other relevant information. You tell it your size, preferred price and conditions.

  3. Standby

    Standby monitors the supported product page and waits for the right opportunity. If your size comes back in stock at an acceptable total price, it can proceed with the authorized purchase.

The promise: You find the item. Standby watches for your opportunity.

Time-sensitive purchasing

The concert ticket you can't afford to miss

  1. The moment

    Your favorite artist announces a concert. You find the official ticket page, but tickets are sold out.

  2. You

    You give the link to Standby and tell it to watch for new tickets, with a maximum checkout total that includes applicable fees and taxes.

  3. Standby

    The moment new tickets appear, Standby checks each one against your conditions. If a ticket meets them and stays within the amount you approved, Standby buys it right away, even while you're asleep.

The promise: Don't keep refreshing the page. Let Standby watch for you.

How it works

  1. 1

    Point and say

    Paste the link to the exact item or event. Say what you want in plain words: one ticket, left wing, under $40 with fees. Standby turns it into a checklist you confirm.

  2. 2

    Choose: alert me, or buy for me

    Alert me: Standby tells you and you pay. Buy for me: PayPal holds the most you'll spend, nothing is taken until it matches, and the hold is released if nothing does.

  3. 3

    Two yeses and the lock, or it waits

    When something turns up, Scout proposes it, the Banker checks it blind, and the Vault (hard-coded, not AI) runs your limits. Two yeses and the lock passes: it's bought. If the AIs disagree, it comes to you.

Good for stores, too

An AI shopper a store can say yes to

Stores block bots because they roam, scrape and hammer their pages. Standby agents are built to be welcome: they come for one thing, from one customer, and leave when they're done.

One page, never browsing

Locked to the link you gave it. It never follows links, searches or visits other sites.

A polite pace

One visit every few minutes, with a hard limit on visits. It slows down or stops when the store asks.

Says who it is, and proves it

Every visit says what it's doing (one customer, at most one item, until a set date) and is signed, so the store can verify it really is Standby.

Stops on time

When the deadline passes it stops visiting and releases your hold. You can reactivate it.

Built to live inside your wallet

Standby is designed as a feature for a wallet or banking app, next to your balance and payments. This demo runs on the PayPal sandbox and two practice stores, so you can watch every decision happen.

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What Standby can never do

These are enforced in code by the Vault, not left to the AI's judgement. The AIs check meaning. The code checks numbers.

“I don't read web pages. I can't be talked into anything.”

  • ✕Spend more than the hold you approved in PayPal
  • ✕Buy anything other than the exact item you pointed at
  • ✕Buy more than you asked for, or buy twice
  • ✕Follow instructions hidden in a web page
  • ✕Wander to other pages or sites, or keep visiting after its time is up
  • ✕Hold your PayPal login or card details