This week, Amazon quietly cut off access to Google’s AI shopping agent , known as Project Mariner and ChatGPT. It also pulled hundreds of...

In a perfect market, information flows freely, prices reflect true value instantly, and consumers never overpay. But in the real world, we’re far from that ideal. That’s why price matching has always felt like a small but powerful form of consumer arbitrage — a way to restore fairness in a system stacked against the shopper.

This post shares the real story behind TaskMonkey.ai — an AI we built not to sell more, but to fight for consumers. From a $234 printer that dropped to $149 overnight to hour-long calls that went nowhere, we realized tech should empower people, not exhaust them. TaskMonkey tracks your online purchases, watches for price drops, and negotiates refunds — automatically. Here’s why we built it, what we learned as AI users (not just builders), and where we think smart consumer tool