Cyber Week: a 15-minute AI check every morning

Adobe expects US shoppers to spend 47.5 billion dollars online in Cyber Week. That is 17.3% of the whole holiday season, in 5 days.

Black Friday is on 27 November, Cyber Monday on 30 November. If a promo code breaks on Friday morning and you find out on Monday, you lost most of your best week.

My take: this is a perfect first job for an AI agent. It is boring, it repeats every day, and a human forgets it exactly when it matters.

Why the morning check matters more this year

Two numbers from the same Adobe forecast:

• Black Friday: 12.9 billion dollars, up 9.2% year over year
• AI-driven traffic to retail sites: up 130%, measured by shoppers who click a link from an AI tool

The second one is new. Shoppers ask ChatGPT or Gemini, get a product, click. That AI answer is built from your page and your product feed. If your page says 49 EUR and your feed says 59 EUR, the shopper sees one price in the chat and another in your shop.

Google Merchant Center already punishes this. A mismatched price can disapprove the product, and repeated mismatches can lead to an account suspension. Google also says prices loaded with JavaScript can trigger that error.

What the agent checks

Pick your top 10 products by revenue. Every morning from Monday 23 November to Tuesday 1 December, the agent opens each one and checks five things:

1. The page loads and the product is in stock.
2. The price on the page matches the price in your product feed export.
3. The sale price is live and the old price is crossed out, if the sale started.
4. The promo code works in the cart. The agent adds the product, applies the code, reads the total. It never pays.
5. The delivery promise on the page still makes sense ("delivery before Christmas" with the real cut-off date).

Output: one table, red lines on top. You read it with your coffee.

The prompt

You can run this with ChatGPT agent mode or Claude in Chrome. Copy it, fill the brackets in your own copy, save it:

Every morning, open each of these product pages: (list of 10 URLs). For each product report: page loads yes/no, in stock yes/no, price shown, sale price shown, price in the attached feed export, match yes/no. Then add the product to the cart, apply the code (your code) and report the total before payment. Never enter payment details and never place an order. Check the delivery text on the page. Return one table, sorted with every problem on top, and one line per problem saying what a human should fix.

Three rules that keep it safe:

• Read only. The agent reports, a person fixes. No price changes by the agent, ever.
• A test cart, not a real order. Stop at the payment step.
• Same 10 products every day. Then a change in the table means a change on the site.

Set it up in 30 minutes

1. Export your top 10 products by revenue from the last 60 days.
2. Export the product feed (the file you send to Google Merchant Center or Meta).
3. Write down the active promo codes and their start and end dates.
4. Run the prompt once by hand today. Fix what it finds.
5. Run it every morning from 23 November. Black Friday and Cyber Monday: twice, at 7:00 and at 12:00.

If something is red, you have the whole day to fix it, not the whole weekend to lose.

What it does not catch

Be honest about the limits. An agent in the browser sees what one shopper sees: one country, one device, logged out. It will not catch a problem that only shows on mobile in another currency. Add one manual phone check of your top 3 products on Friday morning.

Summary

Cyber Week is 17% of the season in 5 days, and AI traffic to shops is growing fast. A 15-minute morning check by an AI agent catches broken codes, wrong prices and empty stock before your customers do. The agent reads and reports, a human fixes.

Before the big week, also check that your Google Ads conversions count right: the free Google Ads tracking check takes a minute. How I run an agent with approvals on my own brand is in the social media agent playbook. If you want checks like this set up for your shop, that is the AI Marketing Workflow Sprint. Or book a free 20-minute call.

What broke in your shop last Black Friday?

Sources: Adobe Digital Insights, US holiday shopping forecast, press release September 2026 (season 1 November to 31 December, US online spend) · Google Merchant Center Help, How to fix: Mismatched product price.