Product Data Agent for Luftbude

180,000 articles, zero hard work: scalable product data automation

Ein Diagramm veranschaulicht die Kernfunktionen eines KI-Agenten. Ausgehend vom zentralen Begriff 'Agent' verweisen Pfeile auf vier spezifische Aufgabenbereiche: Der Agent übersetzt Inhalte in sieben Sprachen, generiert suchmaschinenoptimierte Texte, validiert Produktbilder und recherchiert technische Details. Grüne Häkchen an den Rändern der Grafik unterstreichen die erfolgreiche und fehlerfreie Prozess-Automatisierung.

Summary

Luftbude was faced with a Herculean task. The online store stocks 180,000 products, but incomplete manufacturer data, missing images and imprecise categorization made scaling difficult. It would have taken years to standardize the product data by hand.

Our answer: a product data agent. It automatically researches technical data, generates SEO texts, validates images using computer vision and translates content into seven languages. The result: within just two weeks, we optimized 180,000 products and created a permanent infrastructure for automated growth.

Client

Luftbude GmbH

Industry

E-Commerce & LifestyleIndustry & trade

Service

Time Frame

1.4 Jahre · 01.02.2025 – heute

Team

Christopher Carus

Tools

Wordpress, Serper API, n8n, Claude

Collab

The highlights

180.000

Products optimized in 2 weeks

~250-fold

Cost savings for translations (vs. DeepL)

100 %

Automated content creation

The challenge

Luftbude sells products from various European manufacturers. This model brought with it a massive data problem: the raw data from the suppliers was too different, incomplete or simply not available.

Tens of thousands of items ended up in a huge “other” category, without filter attributes, without images, but with cryptic descriptions – or none at all. The range was almost impossible for customers to navigate and invisible to search engines. Only a few could be maintained manually.

In addition to a one-off clean-up operation, we also wanted to integrate a permanent and scalable “content factory”. This automated factory was to process large volumes of data permanently, cost-effectively and with high quality.

Eine grafische Gegenüberstellung vergleicht drei unvollständige Produktdatensätze mit einem perfekten Endresultat. Rote Kreuze markieren fehlende Bilder, Beschreibungen oder technische Details in den Ursprungsdaten. Ein grüner Haken hebt die vierte Spalte hervor: Hier schließt die KI alle Lücken und generiert einen vollständigen Datensatz für ein sauberes E-Commerce-Development.

From chaos to perfection: AI-supported data refinement fills gaps and completes faulty product data.

Strategy

We developed a complex end-to-end automation system based on n8n, which acts as an intelligent nervous system between raw data sources and the Shopware system. The system goes far beyond simple text creation:

Automated deep research: Based on the EAN, the system performs a live web search via Serper API to identify valid technical specifications and sources.

Multichannel content engine: Google Gemini generates target group-specific descriptions for B2B and B2C channels as well as specific texts for various sales platforms.

SEO: At the same time, optimized metadata (titles and meta descriptions) are created to meet search engine parameters.

Logic & structure: The system automatically assigns products to categories and extracts technical attributes, making the store fully filterable for the first time.

Visual validation & language: A multimodal AI model (GPT-4o mini) researches images and “views” them to check whether they match the article. For internationalization, Gemini 2.5 Pro replaces traditional translation APIs, reducing costs while improving quality.

Automatic translation into seven languages

Ein dunkles Interface visualisiert einen mehrstufigen n8n Workflow zur Prozess-Automatisierung. Verknüpfte Nodes steuern die KI-gestützte Datenextraktion und formatieren komplexe Ausgaben für eine effiziente Webentwicklung.

Nodes at work: This n8n dashboard controls AI-supported data extraction and process automation.

Eine minimalistische Infografik veranschaulicht den massiven Zeitgewinn durch Prozess-Automatisierung. Drei violette Grafiken vergleichen den Arbeitsaufwand: Eine einzelne Person benötigt 85 Jahre, ein Team aus zehn Personen braucht 9 Jahre, während ein KI-Agent die gleiche Aufgabe in exakt 14 Tagen abschließt.

Efficiency in numbers: Intelligent AI agents do in 14 days what would take a human 85 years.

Ein Balkendiagramm auf violettem Hintergrund vergleicht Übersetzungskosten. Ein minimaler grüner Balken repräsentiert die Kosten der KI Gemini. Ein massiver, mehrfach gefalteter weißer Balken zeigt die Ausgaben für DeepL und hebt die 250-fach höheren Kosten prägnant hervor. Die Grafik visualisiert das immense Sparpotenzial durch clevere Strategie-Beratung und die Auswahl der richtigen APIs im Development.

Cost comparison for translations: Gemini beats DeepL with 250 times lower costs.

"Luftbude's catalog used to be a black box. Today, it is a structured competitive advantage. The combination of intelligent research and visual AI validation allows us to present 180,000 products in a quality that would have taken forever to achieve manually."
Christopher (CTO jut-so)

Result

The operational bottleneck was completely eliminated. Within just 14 days, the entire range of 180,000 items was given unique, SEO-optimized descriptions. Around 36,000 products were provided with validated images for the first time.

Thanks to the new, AI-based categorization and attribution, the store is now filterable and user-friendly. Luftbude now has a transparent automation architecture that the team can control independently. Goodbye, hard work. Hello, AI automation.

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