The What-If Blueprintby Nikhil Kasturi

Product Catalog Management

Creating and categorizing SKUs with accurate content and imagery. Keeps product data consistent across every sales channel.

Redesign coming soon5-step traditional flow
01

What it does

Live

Creating and categorizing SKUs with accurate content and imagery. Keeps product data consistent across every sales channel.

02

The traditional flow

Live
flowchart TD
    A[Vendor submits product info via spreadsheet/portal] --> B[Catalog team manually enters data into PIM/CMS]
    B --> C[Review for missing fields, broken images, miscategorization]
    C --> D[Product goes live]
    D --> E[Errors caught only after customer complaint or report flag]
03

Where it breaks

Live

Main pain pointCatalog data arrives in inconsistent formats from many vendors, so standardization is manual and slow.

Stage 2: The What-If redesign

04

Tools in use today

Coming soon

The systems, spreadsheets and handoffs this process relies on in a typical organization.

05

Pain points in depth

Coming soon

Each pain point broken down: where it happens, who feels it, and what it costs in time, errors or risk.

06

Today's critical user journey

Coming soon

Who touches the process, in what order, and where delays and errors creep in.

07

The What-If agent ecosystem

Coming soon

A named roster of agents, each with one responsibility, plus the orchestration diagram and the human checkpoints.

08

The new critical user journey

Coming soon

The same journey redesigned around the agents: what changes for each person and where they still step in.

09

Before and after

Coming soon

A side-by-side comparison of the traditional flow and the agentic redesign.

10

How each pain point gets solved

Coming soon

Every pain point mapped to the agent or checkpoint that removes it.

11

Business outcomes

Coming soon

The generic business outcomes this redesign could drive. Any figures are illustrative estimates, never measured results.