Catalog Management · role · coming soon

Your catalog data seat,
run from Slack.

One outcome built from two agents — Fitment and Product Details. They build the data behind every product, assemble the listings, and publish them live across Amazon, eBay, and your own store. Together they replace the whole Catalog Data Specialist seat, and a separate listing tool. You approve; they do the grind.

The role it replaces

A whole seat — the data nobody sees, behind every sale.

Every product carries a hidden second product: its data. A Catalog Data Specialist keeps it accurate and live everywhere you sell. It is pure desk work, hard to hire for, and easy to get wrong — and it splits cleanly into two halves this outcome covers in full.

01 · The fitment half

Which vehicles each part fits.

Building, maintaining, and distributing valid ACES fitment for every SKU — and answering "will it fit my car?" so shoppers buy the right part the first time.

ACES VCdb migration Interchange Coverage gaps
02 · The product half

Everything else — then publish it.

Sizes, weights, specs, materials, safety labels, descriptions, and photos, assembled into complete listings and published across every store. The half that also lets you cancel a separate listing tool.

03 · Pure desk work

Zero phone. Verifiable output.

A record is valid against the standard or it isn't; a listing is accepted by the channel or rejected with a reason. The ideal shape for an agent with a human approver.

04 · Recurring forever

The work never stops.

Every new SKU, every VCdb release, every model year, every data change regenerates the workload. Always-on coverage replaces a seat that can't be.

05 · One Slack loop

Approve; they do the grind.

The same draft → approve → publish → report rhythm, in the workspace you already use. No dashboard to staff.

The economics

One seat plus a software line item — both removed.

Brands carry two costs to do this job: a salaried specialist they struggle to hire, and a separate tool to push products to stores. The outcome replaces the role and folds in the publishing, so the tool can go too.

What's being displaced
Catalog seat$44k–$108k/yrZipRecruiter range for the Catalog / Product Data Specialist role
In-house loaded$55k–$75k/yrTypical mid-level US seat, fully loaded
Listing tool$300–$3,000+/moChannelAdvisor, Salsify, GoDataFeed (tier-dependent)

A few thousand SKUs across multiple channels typically justifies at least one full-time seat — more at new-model-year peak.

The outcome
The seatReplaced
Listing toolCancellable
Data licenceClient-owned
PricingScoped

Scoped per client around catalog size and channels. The Auto Care data subscription is a client-owned cost — one licence covers both agents.

How it works

Six steps, end to end.

From a trigger to validated data, published listings, and a weekly health report — the workflow both agents run, into one Slack review stream.

Step 01

Trigger

A new SKU is created, a supplier file arrives, a product detail changes, a new asset is added, or the Auto Care Association ships a new vehicle database. Each event starts a unit of work for the right agent.

Automated · event-driven
Step 02

Draft

Fitment drafts a valid ACES record (which vehicles the part fits); Product Details drafts the full PIES attribute record, matches assets, and populates compliance fields. Both validate against the standard and each channel.

Automated · per SKU
Step 03

Build the listings

With fitment, product data, and assets assembled, the complete channel-ready listing is built for each store — Amazon, eBay, your own site — in that store's required format.

Automated · per channel
Step 04

Review in Slack

Drafts and built listings arrive in one channel with the uncertain records flagged. Your team approves, refines, or bulk-approves in plain language. The agents hold full context of each SKU.

Human · your team
Step 05

Publish & distribute

On approval, fitment is distributed to every channel and listings are published live. Later data changes propagate everywhere automatically. Nothing goes out without an approval behind it.

Human-approved · all channels
Step 06

Report

One weekly report across both agents: coverage and data health on the fitment side, listing health (live, rejected, missing-asset, out-of-sync) on the product side.

Automated · weekly
Infrastructure

Your data. Your channels. Your bill.

The outcome runs on client-owned infrastructure. EsitoLabs builds and maintains it. You own the accounts and pay the costs directly — no markup, no lock-in.

The stack
Auto CareLicenceVCdb / PCdb / PAdb / Qdb / Brand Table · one subscription covers both agents
ChannelsAPIsAmazon Listings, eBay, Shopify / own-site · official paths, no scraping
AI providerModelAnthropic default; OpenAI / Google supported · client-owned
NeonDatabaseReference lookup store, draft history, audit log, analytics
Fly.ioHostingAgents run 24/7 · encrypted secrets · 30-second kill switch
You keep everything

No lock-in, ever.

The data subscription, database, channel connections, and full history live in your accounts from day one. End the engagement and EsitoLabs simply severs its connection — you keep it all.

FAQ

Questions about the outcome.

Straight answers on what it replaces, what it costs, and what it can do.

Get notified

It is one outcome built from two agents — the Fitment Data Agent (which vehicles each part fits) and the Product Details Agent (everything else about the product, plus publishing the listings). Together they replace the full Catalog Data Specialist seat. The agents draft and assemble; your team approves from Slack.

A Catalog Data Specialist is a niche, hard-to-hire desk role running roughly $44k–$108k/yr. ACES/PIES fluency is rare, so brands run understaffed or outsource to variable-quality shops. The two agents do the bulk of that seat for a fraction of the cost, and the data never goes out of date.

Often, yes. The Product Details Agent builds and publishes listings itself, which replaces the listing/syndication function of tools like ChannelAdvisor, Salsify, or GoDataFeed (~$300–$3,000+/mo). If your tool is mainly a feed, you can drop it; if it also runs inventory and orders, the agent replaces the listing piece only. We qualify this per client.

No. Every fitment record and every listing is reviewed and approved by your team before it is written or published. Fitment uses conservative confidence thresholds and surfaces uncertainty rather than guessing, because wrong data causes returns and marketplace suppression.

Both agents run on a licensed Auto Care Association data subscription (the vehicle and product reference databases). It is a client-owned cost and one licence covers both agents. Confirming the correct service-licence tier is the first step of onboarding.

Amazon, eBay Motors, and your own site (Shopify/Magento/WooCommerce) to start, with distributor channels and data pools configurable per client. Each uses its official, sanctioned upload path — no scraping.

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