Someone on the team was manually Googling every product, picking an image, downloading it, renaming it, and uploading it — for hundreds of SKUs. A full catalog refresh was a week of one person's time, and the quality depended entirely on who ran it. Feed it a spreadsheet, get back a ranked image list in the time it used to take to do ten products.
The results
40-hour catalog refresh task cut to under 2 hours of review time
Any non-technical team member can run it — no training required
Image quality standardized across the entire catalog, not dependent on individual judgment
Failed lookups flagged explicitly, never silently dropped
n8n workflow — spreadsheet input to Shopify catalog
Shopify catalog after pipeline run — images sourced and attached automatically
Input spreadsheet — product catalog fed to the pipeline
