u/ElDonnintello

Hey everyone, I’m building a tool that turns retail shelf photos into structured share-of-shelf reports.

The idea is simple: instead of manually reviewing shelf photos, counting facings, estimating shelf space, or typing everything into Excel, you upload shelf images and get a table/report back.

For now, I’m mainly trying to understand whether this solves a real problem for CPG teams, field reps, category managers, or trade marketing teams. or whether it sounds better in theory than in practice.

What it is supposed to help with:

• counting facings by brand/product
• estimating share of shelf
• turning field visit photos into structured data
• exporting results into a table that can be corrected manually

What I’m trying to understand:

• Do CPG/field sales teams still count facings manually?
• Are shelf photos usually reviewed by reps, managers, agencies, or back-office teams?
• Would this save time in real workflows?
• What would the tool absolutely need to include to be useful?
• Is share of shelf even the right metric to focus on, or are there more valuable shelf-level checks?

Feel free to be harsh, would something like this be useful, or is this not really how teams work?