Nightshift Storefront Agent

For

Owners of independent boutiques and market stalls with no online presence

Solves

Shop stock sits invisible online because listing, pricing and answering buyers is a second job nobody has time for.

Delivers

Live marketplace or Shopify listings, handled buyer conversations, closed sales and a daily pick list with prepaid shipping labels

Built in

about 3 weeks of creation time, MVP in 3 days

Investment

$6,000 for the MVP, $20,000 for the full product

Run it

Inside your business, or as part of your offer to clients

For owners of independent boutiques and market stalls, turn a weekly smartphone video walkthrough of stock into live marketplace listings, negotiated sales and morning pick lists.

1. Identify items from a video walkthrough.
2. Draft listings with measurements and condition notes.
3. Suggest prices the owner can override.
4. Answer buyer questions and send extra photos.
5. Accept or decline offers within margin rules.
6. Generate pick lists and prepaid shipping labels on sale.

What goes in, what comes out

The workflow

1. In
   Start with

   A weekly smartphone video walkthrough of the shop floor and stockroom, price floors, margin rules and courier preferences

2. 1

   Film a walkthrough

3. 2

   Upload the video

4. 3

   Review and approve drafted listings

5. 4

   Set price floors and margin rules

6. 5

   Let the agent handle buyer conversations

7. 6

   Approve exceptions

8. 7

   Pack from the morning pick list

9. Out
   Finish with

   Live marketplace or Shopify listings, handled buyer conversations, closed sales and a daily pick list with prepaid shipping labels

AI does the heavy lifting, people stay in charge

Use vision models to identify items and extract condition details from video, and language models to write listings and hold multi-turn buyer conversations grounded in a structured stock record so it never sells stock that does not exist. The owner approves each listing and any offer outside set margin rules before it is sent.

What your team sees

Key screens: Stock intake, listing review, sales inbox. Use a video-derived item grid for stock intake, a listing editor with photos, measurements and price override, and a threaded buyer conversation view with offer rules. Show draft, live and sold states, and a daily pick list with shipping labels. In this product, the first view is stock intake, followed by listing review and sales inbox.

Accounts and administration

Owner account with staff access, stock record versions, listing approval states, offer rule settings, message logs, order history and an audit trail of agent decisions.

Integrations and data access

Start with eBay listing APIs and a courier label API, then Shopify, then Stripe for off-marketplace checkout.

We build with our own AI software development factory, so most implementations take days to a few weeks of creation time, not months. You see working software at every step, and exact timing depends on availability.

1. 1

   Scoping call

   Day 1

   Thirty minutes on your process, your data and how you want to run it: for your own team, or for your clients. You get a fixed scope and price for the MVP.

2. 2

   MVP

   3 days

   One buyer segment, one recurring use case. Manual review in the loop. Built by our AI software factory.

3. 3

   Paid pilot

   4 days

   Accounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.

4. 4

   Full product

   6 days

   Self-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.

5. 5

   Run and improve

   Monthly

   We host, monitor and improve it for a fixed monthly fee, or hand it over to your team. How the retainer works.

Why we start with an MVP

An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version that your users can actually work with. It is not a cheap version of the full solution. It is a test, built to answer the questions that decide whether the rest is worth building.

1. Pick the riskiest assumption. Here: will owners of independent boutiques and market stalls with no online presence use it to solve "shop stock sits invisible online because listing, pricing and answering buyers is a second job nobody has time for"?
2. Build only what tests it. One team, one use case, a few core modules. People do the rest by hand for now.
3. Run a paid pilot. Run one trader for a month against a baseline of zero online sales.
4. Measure, then decide. Track online orders closed per shop per month and and returns caused by inaccurate descriptions. Then expand, change course or stop, with evidence instead of opinions.

MVP scope for this solution. One indoor market trader, one use case: video to five live eBay listings with the owner approving everything. First two modules are stock intake from video and listing review, with a person manually handling buyer replies and pick lists for the first ten orders.

After the MVP. After the paid pilot, automate buyer messaging, offer negotiation within rules, shipping label generation and weekly re-pricing, then add Shopify and more marketplaces.

What the build depends on. Vision models reliable on consumer goods from casual video, a structured stock database the agent cannot contradict, marketplace APIs for listing and messaging, and carrier APIs for labels.

A planning range to start the conversation, not a quote. You pay per phase, so you can stop after the MVP.

Running costs per month

A rough indication of monthly hosting and AI model costs once it is live, not tested. Real costs depend on usage, file sizes and the models chosen.

Your brand, or this one

Run it under your own brand, or start from this concept style.

Selling it to your own clients: the go-to-market playbook

Pricing to test

Hypothesis: 150 USD per month subscription plus 2 USD per order fulfilment fee, no setup charge.

Message to test

Film your shop once a week and wake up to live listings, handled buyers and a pick list waiting for the morning.

Where to find buyers

Indoor market trader associations, vintage clothing seller communities on Facebook and Reddit, local trade forums and shopkeeper WhatsApp groups.

Lead magnet

A free trial: send one video walkthrough and receive five ready-to-approve listings within 24 hours.

The first 30 days

1. Week 1: build the WhatsApp video endpoint and item identification pipeline.
2. Week 2: generate and publish the first five approved listings on eBay.
3. Week 3: run ten orders with manual pick and pack to learn edge cases and returns.
4. Week 4: add offer rules and the pick list screen, then sign the first paid trader.

Paid pilot

Run one trader for a month against a baseline of zero online sales. Measure listings live, orders closed and returns caused by description errors. Decision: if orders exceed returns losses and the trader renews, expand to three more traders.

Success metrics

Online orders closed per shop per month, and returns caused by inaccurate descriptions.

Retention and expansion

The weekly walkthrough becomes routine, the stock record and sale history live in the system, and repricing plus buyer messaging keep earning every month without extra work from the owner.

Why clients would pick it

Every walkthrough improves item recognition and condition detection for that shop's stock, and the accumulated listing, sale and returns history makes pricing and descriptions harder for a newcomer to match.

Alternatives and positioning

Owners today either list manually on eBay and Shopify in evenings, or pay listing services that still need typed descriptions and someone on message duty. This differs by generating everything from video and running the whole sale through to a pick list.

Main delivery costs

Vision and language model usage, marketplace and carrier API fees, hosting, and reviewer time for listing quality checks during the pilot.

The agent cannot sell items not in the approved stock record, cannot accept offers below the owner's floor, cannot send messages without a logged decision trail, and must flag suspected damage or missing measurements for human review rather than guess. Owners approve every first listing and can pause the agent at any time.