A new-arrivals check for home-goods stores. Every new product is checked against the vendor’s own line sheet before it goes live.
Catalog ScoutChecked against the line sheet.THE OFFER
A store adds 30 new pieces from a supplier. The vendor’s line sheet has every size, material and care note, but the product pages don’t, because someone has to find and type each one. The kit’s repeatable ritual — the Line-sheet round — does three things:
You verify the drafts and send a short report.
Try it with your own data first: check your own line sheet and download the cited fact sheet — that is exactly what a client would receive. Add last week’s line sheet on that same page and the fact sheet shows what changed: new products, facts now drafted, drafts whose wording changed, and what still says ask vendor. Matched by SKU. Nothing is uploaded.
Price to test: $49 per batch of up to 50 new products, about $1 per product. That sits at the low end of published per-SKU data-entry rates. There is also an optional one-time $99 baseline check of up to 250 existing products.
Why we changed the offer. Version 1.0.2 proposed a $49/month weekly audit. An independent commercial reviewer showed that a $1.99/month app already covers generic audits, and that re-checking an unchanged catalog finds little. The new offer is per batch, only needed when products arrive, and it does something the cheap tools don’t. Demand is still unproven.
| Catalog Scout | $1.99/mo audit app | Shopify Magic / chatbot | Freelance data entry | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finds missing size, material, care, assembly by family | Yes | Not listed | No | By hand |
| Drafts from the vendor line sheet, matched by SKU | Yes, with row and column | No | One product at a time, no citation | Retyped |
| Refuses to guess | “Ask vendor” | n/a | “Can occasionally invent details” | Depends |
| What changed since last batch | Yes, by handle and SKU | No | No | No |
| Price | $49 per batch (hypothesis) | $1.99/month | Free–$20/month | $0.20–$4.38 per SKU |
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Sources: the app listings, Shopify’s blog and one provider’s published per-SKU rates. See the research.
These three products come from the kit’s own sample files, a fictional batch with its line sheet. The results below were produced by the included engine when this page was built.
In the Shopify export (row 4)
ridge-bowl · Ridge Serving Bowl
“A wide serving bowl with a hand-carved ridge. Dishwasher safe.”
SKU KR-RDG-01
Catalog Scout finds
Size missingMaterial missingCare/use stated
Drafted from the line sheet
Dimensions: 12 in W x 12 in D x 4 in Hrow 3, columns "Width (in)" + "Depth (in)" + "Height (in)"Material: Stonewarerow 3, column "Material"In the Shopify export (row 6)
ember-lantern · Ember Lantern
“Warm, modern and ready for the porch.”
SKU KR-EMB-01
Catalog Scout finds
Size missingMaterial missingCare/use missing
Drafted from the line sheet
Material: Powder-coated steel and tempered glassrow 5, column "Material"Care/use: Indoor/outdoor use; wipe with a dry clothrow 5, column "Care / use"In the Shopify export (row 10)
fern-print · Fern Wall Print
“Botanical print, framed and ready to hang.”
SKU KR-FERN-01
Catalog Scout finds
Size missingMaterial missingCare/use missing
Drafted from the line sheet
In the full sample, 10 missing facts are drafted and 5 are marked “ask vendor”. Run it yourself or open the sample report.
The report fits on one screen before you scroll: a one-line summary, four counts and the three things to fix this week. Below that come a product × fact grid with the legend stated once, then the line-sheet drafts, then an appendix with every finding and its source row. It’s a single HTML file you can print to PDF.
The checks read product wording, so we measure them on labelled products. Before changing any rule for 1.0.3, the builder wrote a new blind set of 58 products across three families and froze its labels. It was scored once, and nothing was tuned afterwards.
| Family | 1.0.3 advisories correct | 1.0.3 gaps caught | 1.0.2 advisories correct | 1.0.2 gaps caught |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (58) | 96.1% (49/51) | 98% (49/50) | 75.9% (41/54) | 82% (41/50) |
| Décor (22) | 100% (18/18) | 100% (18/18) | 76.5% (13/17) | 72.2% (13/18) |
| Furniture (18) | 94.4% (17/18) | 100% (17/17) | 66.7% (16/24) | 94.1% (16/17) |
| Textiles (18) | 93.3% (14/15) | 93.3% (14/15) | 92.3% (12/13) | 80% (12/15) |
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Read these numbers with care.
These are assumptions, not results. The same model ships in the kit (ECONOMICS.csv). It counts the hours to win each customer, the minutes to review each batch, and customers who leave.
| Assumption or result | Pilot fails | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New customers / month | 0.5 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Monthly churn | 35% | 20% | 10% | 6% |
| Owner hours to win a customer | 12 h | 10 h | 8 h | 6 h |
| Review minutes per batch | 30 min | 25 min | 20 min | 15 min |
| Batches per customer / month | 1 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 |
| Customers after 12 months | 1.4 | 4.7 | 14.4 | 34.9 |
| Owner hours in month 12 | 10.2 h | 19.3 h | 36.9 h | 64 h |
| Cash profit, month 12 | $50 | $290 | $1,145 | $3,516 |
| Profit after valuing time at $25/h, month 12 | −$205 | −$192 | $222 | $1,917 |
| Cumulative after labor, year 1 (incl. setup) | −$2,707 | −$2,934 | −$445 | $10,667 |
| Lifetime value : acquisition cost | 0.2 : 1 | 0.5 : 1 | 2.9 : 1 | 12.5 : 1 |
| Payback on acquisition | never | never | 3.4 mo | 1.3 mo |
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Pilot fails and Low lose money once your time is counted. Base breaks even after labor around month 7. Measure real review minutes and acquisition hours in your first five pilots, and stop if they look like the left-hand columns. All inputs and formulas
Partially automated today.
A scripted dry run of four weeks (fictional data, not an agent session) ships in the kit. Any rule edit must pass a regression gate first.
Read the AI operator packageVersion 1.0.3. Includes a file manifest with SHA-256 hashes and a license. Nonexclusive reuse; check your chosen business name before launch.
Only the current kit is served. Old download links redirect to this page.