The Resolution Layer · Case Study in BriefEKOM
An industrial pipe, valve & fitting distributor.
A single-brand, no-schema read across an industrial distributor's largest manufacturer line — one of a set of anonymized EKOM analyses. What surfaced, and where it leads.
Lead finding · discovery
A safety claim that contradicts itself on the same page.
Across the line, well over 150 products carry two safety statements in the same description that cannot both be true — one saying the part is lead-free, the other carrying the state-mandated contains-lead warning. The clearest case is a part whose own product code reads as a lead-free certification — and it still carries the contains-lead warning. The highest-impact finding in this catalog isn't a missing product — it's a live, buyable part making two contradictory safety claims at once.
Also surfaced
Duplicate listings, disagreeing
214 products sharing a short internal prefix produce 187 duplicate pairs for the same part — most disagree on price, many on weight too, some by more than 3x.
Five-figure pricing errors
A small clamp priced near $17,000 against directly comparable listings running $15–30 on the same page; a 42-pound weight on a part whose price and siblings both point to six pounds.
Unsearchable part numbers
Roughly 60 products carry an internal database ID or a generic type label in the part-number field instead of the manufacturer part number visible in the product name.
Content from the wrong product
Several pages carry another product's marketing copy or photo entirely — a mechanical part's page reading like a different category's brochure.
How EKOM read it. With no schema and no manual setup, the engine profiled the full catalog and detected that a small secondary batch used an entirely different structure than the main line — flat categories, round-number pricing, no safety-warning field — so it read that batch in its own structural context instead of averaging its issues away against the much larger line.
From diagnosis to defensible. This pass read and diagnosed. The same understanding powers what follows — resolving the safety-warning contradiction, reconciling the duplicate listings and pricing/weight errors, and holding the line structurally sound as new batches arrive.