The evidence that's only in the picture

What if the evidence you need isn't in the listing text at all?

Sellers know titles and descriptions get read. So the details that matter are often somewhere else: printed on the packaging, written on a label, sitting in the main product photo. If your monitoring only reads the text, those listings can slip right past.

We've made two changes to how Astra handles marketplace images.

First, the information Astra extracts from a listing's image now feeds several of its AI outputs, including relevance. In other words, what's in the picture now counts toward what reaches your review queue. A listing with a bland title but a telling photo no longer gets ranked as if the photo didn't exist.

Second, the text Astra extracts from the main photo is now searchable. Search for a term, and Astra can surface listings where it appears inside the image, even when the title never mentions it.

The first searches you run tend to be revealing. Some of what turns up is exactly what you'd expect. Some of it isn't, and that's the part worth looking at.

As always, Astra ranks what it finds by risk and relevance, and your team decides what happens next. Not black-box autonomy, just better evidence in front of the people who make the call.

Curious what's hiding in your marketplace photos? Try a search in Astra, or email us at hello@astraobp.com.