Stop 3 · the jewelry shop

Closed the first paying client at 2.5x their budget cap.

Anchor

Co-Founder and Engineer · Apr to Aug 2026

AI catalog and lookbook software for fine-jewelry brands.

Code is private. Happy to walk through it.

The problem: Fine-jewelry brands built catalogs by hand from thousands of emailed SKUs and images.
What I did: Ran the discovery on-site, then built the product solo: a Python pipeline from SKUs to branded PDF lookbooks.
The result: First paying client at $2,500, 2.5x their budget cap.

first paying client: $2,500first paying client
their budget cap: 2.5xtheir budget cap
SKUs and images per catalog: 1,000sSKUs and images per catalog

The problem

Fine-jewelry brands built catalogs by hand from thousands of emailed SKUs and images.

What I built

A catalog pipeline. It pulls thousands of SKUs and images from the client's line-sheet emails through Dropbox and Zapier, matches each image to its SKU, and validates them for the lookbook and wishlist views.

Then the lookbook itself: 750 lines of Python that turn a spreadsheet selection into an 11-page branded PDF.

How it sold

The client capped the budget at $1,000. I went in person, demoed the build, expanded the scope, and closed at $2,500.

Result

Our first paying client, at 2.5x their budget cap. Saved the client 30 minutes per lookbook.

Python