Use cases / Assortment and catalog analysis

See how competing catalogs change.

Compare assortment overlap, category mix, price ranges and availability across the stores you collect. Turn recurring observations into a clearer view of your category.

Changes1 Sep → 7 Sep

north.exampleNike Air Max 90 · EU 42
€139.99 → €129.99
field.exampleNew Balance 530 · EU 42
€119.99 → €109.99
tempo.exampleadidas Samba OG · EU 42
out of stock

↳ 3 changes · 11 offers · 3 stores

Catalog moves

See the patterns across the products.

Collect the same stores again and their catalogs become a series: what each one lists, what it shares with yours, and what moved.

Assortment overlap

You and Field share 3 exact variants.

Field lists the Converse Chuck 70 in EU 42; you do not. You list the ASICS GEL-1130; Field does not. Matching is by exact variant, so another size or colour counts apart.

Assortment overlapnorth × field

Nike Air Max 90 · Black
Both
adidas Samba OG · White
Both
New Balance 530 · White
Both
ASICS GEL-1130 · Silver
Only yours
Converse Chuck 70 · Black
Only Field

↳ 3 shared · 1 only yours · 1 only Field’s

Every comparison covers the stores, countries and dates you collected. A catalog shows what a store lists, not its sales, demand or market share, and a listing first seen in your dataset may be older than your first collection.

Exact variants

Overlap counted variant by variant.

Two stores share a product only when they sell the same model, colour and size. Every row keeps both listings, so you can open the pages behind a gap.

Example data
{
  "analysis_id": "assortment_overlap",
  "status": "eligible",
  "summary": {
    "shared_variant_count": 3,
    "reference_only_variant_count": 1,
    "comparison_only_variant_count": 1,
    "jaccard_similarity": 0.6
  },
  "data": [
    { "title": "ASICS GEL-1130", "options": { "color": "Silver", "size": "EU 42" }, "membership": "reference_only" },
    { "title": "Converse Chuck 70", "options": { "color": "Black", "size": "EU 42" }, "membership": "comparison_only" }
  ],
  "next_cursor": null
}

Assortment overlap. Shared, yours only and theirs only, in the dashboard, the API or your agent.

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Start with the catalogs you need to compare.

Choose your stores and markets. Collect their pages, connect matching products, and give your next assortment review a dataset to work from.

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