Tire Kicker vs Volans Aquilae

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Tire Kicker compared with Volans Aquilae
Detail	Tire Kicker	Volans Aquilae
What it does	AI shopping agent testing for Shopify stores	Engineering firm that tests AI agents before customers use them
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	TH
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Free test once per month per store; Priority test $5; Full report $99; Monthly monitoring $19/month per store	Production readiness review: USD 10,000 (ten working days, up to 10 tools and MCP servers, one re-run within 30 days). Founding-client price for first three: USD 6,000 for published summary. Forward deployed engineers: USD 12,000 per engineer per month (minimum one month, invoiced monthly in advance
Key features	Tests three types of AI shopping agents: code-reading, screen-reading, and protocol agents Identifies six critical checkout failure points: Arrive, Find, Choose, Cart, Checkout, Total Free monthly test with email confirmation $5 priority test for immediate results and retesting Video recordings and step-by-step logs of agent attempts Reports show ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude agent compatibility	Automated tests built from real production failures Security review of tools and MCP servers Signed go/no-go verdict from founder One re-run within 30 days Up to 10 tools and MCP servers per review Forward deployed engineers for go-lives Round-the-clock engineer support Monthly regression testing after model changes Up to 100 production traces per agent per month
What makes it different	Only tool that tests all three ways AI agents actually shop: code-based, vision-based, and through Shopify's protocol Detects real agent checkout failures that AI-readiness scores miss No store access required: tests only public storefront like any customer Completely free monthly test with full results	Founder personally leads and signs every verdict Same price for go and no-go verdicts All code built stays in customer's repository 24/7 engineer shifts to match customer time zones Founding-client price of USD 6,000 for first three reviews
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	3 +3 (up) since last check	4 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	12	16
Referring domains (Majestic)	1	5

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