Vendee Labs launches a private AI shopping agent that answers only to the shopper

Sunday 30 August, 2026 JERSEY, Channel Islands — 1 September 2026 — Vendee Labs today released the VendeeX Personal Shopping Agent, a free, local-first application built on three promises: it works only for the shopper, its AI and data stay on the shopper’s own computer, and it is held to European data-protection standards. The company calls the approach buyer-sovereign, and says it is what lets an AI agent shop for someone without ever working against them. The application can be downloaded today at www.vendeex.ai, in 19 languages, for macOS. Windows and Linux versions will be available shortly. Why now. AI agents are becoming a primary way people shop, and most of them are built and owned by the platforms that sell the products they recommend. At the same time, personalised pricing has drawn regulatory attention: a 2025 US Federal Trade Commission study found that companies use personal data, including location, to set individualised prices. VendeeX is a structural answer to both — an agent that answers to the shopper, and whose data stays on the shopper’s own device, leaving far less for anyone to price against. Buyer-sovereign. The VendeeX agent answers to the person doing the