Getting Started

1. How CatalogPilot Works (The Mental Model)
2. How to Use This Manual
3. What Happens Automatically vs. Manually
4. First-Time Workflow (What to Expect)

Core Navigation

1. Dashboard Overview
2. Review Queue
3. Product List View
4. Product Gallery (A/B Comparison View)

Product Detail Tabs

1. Product Tabs (Editing & Overrides)
2. Images / ADA
3. Variants
4. SEO Tab
5. Attributes
6. ESG
7. Social
8. Legal / PCI
9. AI (LLM & Discovery Signals)

Category Management

1. Category List View
2. Category Gallery
3. Category Tab
4. Category SEO Tab
5. Category: Social
6. Category: ESG
7. Category: AI

Activity & System Transparency

1. Activity & Errors (Products & Categories)

Storefront Configuration

1. Incoming Catalog Connection
2. Outgoing Delivery & Storefront Activation

Before You Begin:

Why CatalogPilot Changes the Role of Your Catalog

Choosing to use CatalogPilot is not a minor optimization decision.

It is a structural shift in how your product catalog exists, behaves, and creates value.

Traditionally, an eCommerce product catalog lives inside a platform.

Its data, structure, and reach are constrained by that platform’s rules, limitations, and roadmap. Even when optimized, the catalog remains largely siloed—serving the storefront first, and everything else second.

CatalogPilot changes that model.

For the first time, your product catalog exists externally as a structured, governed asset—independent of any single platform. Your storefront remains fully

How CatalogPilot Works (The Mental Model)

CatalogPilot is an external intelligence layer that sits alongside your eCommerce platform — not inside it.

Instead of overwriting or modifying your catalog data, CatalogPilot creates a secure, synchronized copy of your catalog outside your platform, enriches it, and then delivers approved improvements at page render time.

The Three Core States

Every piece of content in CatalogPilot moves through three clear states:

1. Enriched New structured content has been generated (SEO, accessibility, metadata, variants, images, categories).
2. Approved A human has confirmed the enrichment is acceptable. This is the trust boundary.
3. Delivered Approved content is actively

How to Use This Manual

This manual is designed as a reference guide, not a step-by-step tutorial.

You do not need to read it from beginning to end.

How the Manual Is Organized

Each section corresponds directly to a specific area of the CatalogPilot interface:

• Dashboard & Review workflow
• Product and Category management
• Enrichment tabs (Products, Images, Variants, SEO, Attributes, ESG, Social, Legal, AI)
• Storefront configuration
• Billing and usage transparency

Sections are intentionally self-contained, so you can jump to what you need without losing context.

How to Read It

• Skim first to understand what a screen or feature does
• Dive

First-Time Workflow (What to Expect)

CatalogPilot is designed to get you real results early, while ensuring accuracy, safety, and human oversight during your first interaction with the system.

Your first enrichment is intentionally guided and verified, not instant — this is by design.

Step 1 — Connect Your Catalog

After signing up, you provide:

• Read-only API access to your platform
• Your public storefront URL

CatalogPilot begins collecting and normalizing your catalog data in the background.

Depending on catalog size and system load, this initial collection can take minutes to a few hours.

No changes are made to your storefront during

What Happens Automatically vs. Manually

CatalogPilot is intentionally designed to do the heavy lifting automatically while keeping human approval and control at clear decision points.

Understanding this separation is key to using the system confidently.

What Happens Automatically

CatalogPilot automatically handles the following:

• Catalog synchronization Reads products, variants, images, categories, and related metadata from your platform using read-only access.
• Contextual analysis Observes public storefront structure to understand how content is presented to visitors and crawlers.
• Enrichment generation Produces structured metadata, accessibility text, variant mappings, category signals, and AI-ready attributes off-platform.
• Batch processing & scaling Queues, throttles, and processes enrichments safely

CatalogPilot Glossary & Key Concepts

Catalog

Your product catalog as it exists on your eCommerce platform (products, categories, variants, images, prices, availability).

CatalogPilot does not replace your catalog. It reads from it and builds an enriched copy externally.

Copy of Catalog (External Copy)

A secure, read-only copy of your catalog created via API connection.

This copy:

• Lives outside your platform
• Is used for enrichment, validation, and delivery
• Can be discarded instantly with no impact to your store

Enrichment

The process of generating structured, machine-readable content for products, categories, variants, and images.

Enrichment may include:

• Titles and descriptions
• SEO metadata (meta