Archived product walkthrough
Read engineering case study RugDesk / December 2025 - July 2026
From messy inventory to grounded product discovery.
A multi-tenant inventory and shopping system built for independent rug retailers, where every product is one of one and a convincing answer still has to be correct.
This archived walkthrough uses product screenshots and sample inventory. AI requests, transactions, customer messages, and staff mutations are disabled.
01 / Bounded search
A shopper describes the room, not a database query.
RugDesk resolves the store, applies hard constraints to sample in-stock inventory, and gives the model only a validated candidate set to rank and explain.