Services / Catalog AI
We rewrite catalogs for industrial and equipment e-commerce distributors. Descriptions, schema, internal linking, AIO citation engineering — delivered in your platform’s format, priced per product, operated month over month.
Why now
For a distributor with 10,000 SKUs the math is brutal: every product page that isn’t engineered for AI citation is invisible in the new search surface. Manufacturer-supplied copy doesn’t get cited — AI engines deduplicate it across the 40+ distributors who all use the same text.
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US searches now trigger AI Overviews
BrightEdge AIO tracker · Q1 2026
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Organic CTR when an AIO appears
Pew Research + Ahrefs SERP study · 2025
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Shopping queries triggering AIO
BrightEdge shopping panel · Jan 2026 (5.6× growth in 4 months)
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Extra organic clicks for AIO-cited brands
Authoritas citation-share report · 2025
The fix is structural: content depth per product, schema completeness, and citation-engineered Q&A blocks. That’s what Catalog AI ships.
How to engage
Same buyer profile across all three. Different depth of work, different price points. Volume discounts at 10K and 50K SKUs in every tier — full table below.
Per-SKU · one-time + maintenance
$3.00/ SKU
"Our descriptions are tired and inconsistent — fix them across the whole catalog."
Per-SKU · one-time + maintenance
$7.00/ SKU
"We want every product reviewed by a senior editor before delivery — at scale we can't get from any SaaS tool."
6-month minimum · 30-day exit thereafter
From $15K/ month
"We have 50K+ SKUs. We don't want a project — we want someone running it."
Not sure which tier? The free catalog snapshot rewrites 5 of your products in both Standard and Pro so you can see the depth difference before deciding.
Volume pricing
Pricing is the same shape across all three tiers: per-SKU base rate, lower per-SKU as catalog size grows, separate line for ongoing maintenance.
Tier
| Volume | Rate |
|---|---|
1,000 – 9,999 SKUs Min: $3,000 | $3.00 / SKU |
10,000 – 49,999 SKUs Min: $25,000 | $2.50 / SKU |
50,000+ SKUs Min: $100,000 | $2.00 / SKU |
Ongoing maintenance
Tier
| Volume | Rate |
|---|---|
1,000 – 9,999 SKUs Min: $7,000 | $7.00 / SKU |
10,000 – 49,999 SKUs Min: $60,000 | $6.00 / SKU |
50,000+ SKUs Min: $250,000 | $5.00 / SKU |
Ongoing maintenance
Tier
| Volume | Rate |
|---|---|
50,000 – 99,999 SKUs Min: $5.00 / SKU initial | $15,000 / mo |
100,000 – 249,999 SKUs Min: $4.00 / SKU initial | $25,000 / mo |
250,000+ SKUs Min: Custom initial | $50,000+ / mo |
Ongoing maintenance
Need more than catalog?
If you need catalog work coordinated with content, AI search, dev, and outbound under one operator — see Full Growth Ownership. Catalog AI Enterprise is included in those engagements.
See Full Growth OwnershipPositioning
Salesolution uses AI where it ships better outputs than humans can at sustainable economics. We use senior human writers where AI ships worse outputs than humans can, regardless of cost.
This service
Product catalog at scale — descriptions, FAQs, schema, internal linking — for catalogs of 1,000+ SKUs where no human team can write 10,000 product descriptions in 30 days at sustainable per-product economics. AI handles drafting; human editors handle structural review on every product at Pro tier and above.
Editorial Authority
Pillar pages, cluster posts, category content, engineering Q&A hubs, trade-press bylined content. These pieces require argument construction, primary research, and judgment that AI ships worse than experienced subject-matter writers.
See Editorial AuthorityBoth services run as separate engagements. Most clients eventually buy both — catalog work for product pages, editorial work for the category and authority layer above them. The two services cross-link in the work they produce, which is most of the value.
What we actually build
Fifteen rows of what’s in each tier. The upgrade path lives in the differences — not in marketing language wrapped around the same work.
| Deliverable | $3.00 / SKU Standard | $7.00 / SKU · Most common Pro | From $15K / mo Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-rewritten descriptions | 200–400 words | 500–800 words, structured | Pro depth, all SKUs |
| Brand voice training | Included | Deeper, with technical register | Included |
| Meta titles + schema | Product + Offer | + FAQ + HowTo + AggregateRating | Included |
| Internal linking | 3–7 links per page | Graph-engineered | Catalog-wide architecture |
| Manufacturer spec integration | — | Included | Included |
| Per-product FAQ blocks | — | Included | Included |
| Comparison content | — | Top 20% of SKUs | All SKUs |
| Category page rewrites | — | — | Top 50 pages |
| Programmatic SEO build | — | — | Included |
| Editor review | 5% sampled | 100% reviewed by senior editor | 100% reviewed + dedicated operator |
| QA sampling rate | 5% | 20% | 100% via operator review |
| CRM-format delivery | Included | Included | + PIM integration |
| Monthly outcome reviews | — | — | Included |
| Quarterly re-optimization | Separate fee | Separate fee | Included |
| Dedicated operator | — | — | Included |
| Direct Slack access | — | Async · 24h response | Real-time |
How it works
Missing the day-7 pilot is the single most damaging failure mode in this work. We protect it on every engagement.
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CSV or platform export of your products, plus 50 of your best existing descriptions so we can train the model on your tone. That’s the entire intake.
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First 500 SKUs land on day 7. You approve voice and quality before we touch the rest of the catalog. The pilot is the trust gate — everything else is downstream of you signing off here.
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Standard runs at ~2,000 SKUs/day. Pro at ~1,000/day (deeper content + manufacturer spec ingestion + FAQ generation). Enterprise runs continuously with your dedicated operator.
04
Shopify CSV, Magento XML, BigCommerce, custom — we map to your import. You upload, we verify, you’re live. 30 days of post-delivery issue resolution at no charge.
Case study · Industrial hydraulics distributor
~8,500 SKUs catalog · six-month engagement. The work below is what a Catalog AI Pro engagement at this scale looks like in practice.
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Qualified leads / month
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025
What we shipped
They rebuilt our product schema and rewrote our pillar pages so AI Overviews cite us instead of the manufacturer. Qualified leads doubled inside two quarters.
Free catalog snapshot · 2 business days
Send us your URL and approximate SKU count. We rewrite 5 of your products — once under Standard, once under Pro — and send back the side-by-side as a PDF, plus what we’d find across the rest of your catalog. Two business days. No follow-up sequence.
Two-step form · ~3 minutes · reply within 24h
Scope guardrails
Stated on the page so it’s already settled before the proposal. If you need something below, we’ll point you at who actually does it well.
Catalog AI FAQ
Tier differences. Quality controls. Ownership. The honest sizing thresholds.
Standard rewrites your descriptions and ships the catalog. Pro engineers each product to be cited by AI Overviews — deeper descriptions, FAQ blocks, manufacturer spec integration, comparison content, enhanced schema. The Pro tier is built for distributors who want to dominate AI search, not just have better descriptions.
Because the work per product is 2–3× more: manufacturer spec ingestion, FAQ generation, comparison content, deeper QA. The free Catalog Snapshot shows you both tiers side-by-side on your own products so you can see the difference before deciding.
Above 50K SKUs, the per-SKU model gets expensive enough that a managed-service retainer is cheaper than equivalent project work. Enterprise also includes category page rewrites, programmatic SEO build, dedicated operator, and monthly outcome reviews.
If you’re hiring an in-house person for $200K+/year to do this, the retainer is a better deal.
Yes. We charge the difference (~$4/SKU at tier 1) plus a reprocessing fee for any SKUs already shipped. Most clients who upgrade do so 60–90 days after Standard delivery, once they’ve seen the work and want more depth.
We sample before delivery (5% Standard / 20% Pro / 100% via operator review for Enterprise). The 500-SKU pilot at day 7 is your approval gate before full processing. Post-delivery errors get reprocessed at no charge. Our error rate has run under 2% on the work we’ve shipped.
Different work, different tools. Catalog work is structural at scale — 10,000 products with schema, FAQs, internal links, all delivered in 30 days. No human team writes 10,000 product descriptions in 30 days at $3/SKU. AI handles drafting; editors review at scale. The output ships at a price humans can’t match.
Editorial content (pillar pages, cluster posts, category authority content) is judgment-based at lower volume — 10–20 pieces per month, each requiring argument construction and primary research. Senior writers produce better outputs there than AI does, and the per-piece economics make human writing viable.
We use the right tool for each kind of work. See Editorial Authority for the senior-writer service.
Those are self-service SaaS — you upload data, you run the tool, you handle QA and delivery. We operate the system for you: brand voice training, manufacturer spec integration, human QA at scale, CRM format mapping, and ongoing operations.
SaaS tools work for distributors with internal content teams who want a tool. We work for distributors who want the catalog handled.
You do. Full IP transfer on delivery. No licensing, no ongoing fees on the content itself. We keep your original descriptions as a backup — you can revert any product at any time.
$1/SKU on Standard, $2.50/SKU on Pro, included for Enterprise. 48-hour turnaround. Send us a weekly or biweekly batch and they flow through the same pipeline.
Yes. $3,000 minimum on Standard (1,000 SKUs), $7,000 minimum on Pro (1,000 SKUs), 50K SKU minimum to qualify for Enterprise. Below those thresholds, the setup cost doesn’t amortize and you’re better off with a SaaS tool.
If the day-7 pilot batch doesn’t meet quality standards and we can’t fix it with a prompt revision, full refund. Once you approve the pilot, the project is binding.
Book a 15-minute strategy call. No sales pitch — we’ll name the single constraint capping your growth right now and the one change with the highest payback.