[Vertical] slab-level inventory across stone and wide-format wood
Shopify for slab — each piece is its own product.
A slab is not a variant. It is a unique object, photographed, dimensioned, with a hold window and a freight footprint of its own. The slab system rebuilds the storefront around that fact. Marble, granite, travertine, exotic stone, live-edge hardwood — all sold piece-by-piece, with quarry sync, AI-tagged photography, and 36-hour reservation built in.
The places slab breaks Shopify.
- N°01VARIANT
Themes assume variants — slabs are unique pieces. Treating them as variants of a parent collapses the catalogue's truth.
- N°02PHOTO
Each slab needs its own photograph, dimensions, grading, and 36-hour hold; no Shopify theme has a surface for that.
- N°03MATERIAL
Wide-format hardwood, granite, marble, travertine, live-edge — all sold slab-by-slab and all require the same architecture.
- N°04SYNC
Inventory at the quarry, mill, or warehouse changes by the hour; the storefront has to follow, with photo and grading attached.
- N°05FREIGHT
Freight depends on slab weight and dimensions, not on unit count — themes price freight as if every order were the same size.
The bespoke surfaces a slab build leans on.
These are the systems we have already built for slab brands. Eleven systems live in the library; the 6 below are the ones a slab catalogue leans on first.
Where the system holds the weight.
Every six-layer build runs; the 4 below are the layers that do the heaviest lifting for slab.
Not a freelance agency. A growth system designer.
We build the whole system, ship it, and stay on as the partner who runs it. The vertical is slab-level inventory across stone and wide-format wood — but the work is the system that holds the vertical, six layers deep. We carry six to eight engagements at a time, on purpose, because that is how the system gets shipped at the standard we want it shipped at.
[N°05] Common questions · slab
What every slab brand asks first.
The five questions material brands selling slab-level inventory across stone and wide-format wood put to the studio before the discovery call.
Do you build slab-level inventory in Shopify?
Yes — Slab Gallery is a custom system we have shipped multiple times. Each slab is its own SKU with its own photograph, dimensions, and a 36-hour reservation window.
What is a slab in the catalogue?
A unique piece. One slab, one product — not a variant of a parent. The storefront, inventory, freight, and CRM are all rebuilt around that fact.
Can you sync the catalogue with the quarry or mill?
Quarry Sync is one of the eleven systems. Cuts at the source flow into the storefront automatically — with photograph, dimensions, and grading attached.
How does the AI layer help with slab catalogues?
The AI layer handles description generation grounded in the slab's spec — origin, grading, dimensions — and tags photographs for retrieval. The catalogue body is written from data, not by hand.
Is slab inventory only for stone?
No — slab applies to any material sold as unique pieces. Wide-format hardwood, marble, granite, travertine, exotic stone, live-edge wood — all benefit from slab-level architecture.
Build the slab system?
Every engagement starts with a paid discovery. We map your catalogue across the six layers and tell you which surfaces are off-the-shelf, which get adapted, and what is new.