ASCEND • CATALOG PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT. DONE FOR YOU.

Your catalog is costing you digital revenue. We fix it continuously. You see the results every month.

Ascend Catalog Pro is a managed program for retailers, distributors, and manufacturers running large, complex catalogs. We bring the people, the standards, and the systems — and we commit to outcomes you can measure.
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ASCEND • CATALOG PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT. DONE FOR YOU.

Your catalog is costing you digital revenue.

We fix it continuously. You see the results every month.

Ascend Catalog Pro is a managed program for retailers, distributors, and manufacturers running large, complex catalogs. We bring the people, the standards, and the systems — and we commit to outcomes you can measure.

Catalog work is the activity tax nobody put on the budget.

Catalog work is the activity tax nobody put on the budget.

It’s the SKU you re-described for the fifth marketplace this quarter. The attribute that finally got filled in after six months of waiting on the supplier. The export that broke when the marketplace changed its schema again. The spreadsheet that lives in someone's Slack DMs because that's the only version anyone trusts.

Catalog operations is a real job. It's just spread across a dozen people who didn’t sign up for it.

Now ask anyone in the building how the catalog is actually performing this quarter — search visibility, on-site findability, conversion, returns coming back from bad data. You’ll get a shrug. Hours go in. Outcomes don't move.

You’re paying for the work twice. Once in salaries, and once in the business outcomes the work was supposed to produce.

That's the activity tax. Ascend is how you stop paying it.

Catalog work is the activity tax nobody put on the budget.

Catalog work is the activity tax nobody put on the budget.

It’s the SKU you re-described for the fifth marketplace this quarter. The attribute that finally got filled in after six months of waiting on the supplier. The export that broke when the marketplace changed its schema again. The spreadsheet that lives in someone's Slack DMs because that's the only version anyone trusts.

Catalog operations is a real job. It's just spread across a dozen people who didn’t sign up for it.

Now ask anyone in the building how the catalog is actually performing this quarter — search visibility, on-site findability, conversion, returns coming back from bad data. You’ll get a shrug. Hours go in. Outcomes don't move.

You’re paying for the work twice. Once in salaries, and once in the business outcomes the work was supposed to produce.

That's the activity tax. Ascend is how you stop paying it.

Not a tool. A team that runs your catalog operations on your behalf.

Not a tool. A team that runs your catalog operations on your behalf.

We take on the catalog work your team is doing today, plus the work they don't have time to do. The SEO-driven enrichment. The AI-answer-engine optimization. The new-product onboarding that's been queued for two quarters. The whole catalog, all the channels, all the time. 

We run it through the Continuous Catalog Performance Cycle — a closed-loop operating model that connects what's actually happening in market back to what's missing in your product data. Performance tells us where to dig. Enrichment lands the fix. The cycle compounds month over month.

We commit to outcomes we report on every month: search visibility, findability on your site, conversion, and data quality scored against the standards we set together. Not another backlog or status update. A scoreboard with our name on it.

We take on the catalog work your team is doing today, plus the work they don't have time to do. The SEO-driven enrichment. The AI-answer-engine optimization. The new-product onboarding that's been queued for two quarters. The whole catalog, all the channels, all the time. 

We run it through the Continuous Catalog Performance Cycle — a closed-loop operating model that connects what's actually happening in market back to what's missing in your product data. Performance tells us where to dig. Enrichment lands the fix. The cycle compounds month over month.

We commit to outcomes we report on every month: search visibility, findability on your site, conversion, and data quality scored against the standards we set together. Not another backlog or status update. A scoreboard with our name on it.

Five steps. One closed loop. Every cycle leaves your catalog measurably better than the last.
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Ingest

Most catalog audits are a snapshot: scored once, emailed around, wrong six weeks later. Ascend reads the live signals instead. Search Console shows what can't be found, GA4 what won't convert, your PIM where attribute gaps hide. Watched daily against your revenue channels. No more audit theatre.

Five steps. One closed loop. Every cycle leaves your catalog measurably better than the last.
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Ingest

Most catalog audits are a snapshot: scored once, emailed around, wrong six weeks later. Ascend reads the live signals instead. Search Console shows what can't be found, GA4 what won't convert, your PIM where attribute gaps hide. Watched daily against your revenue channels. No more audit theatre.
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Score

Every SKU gets a conversion-weighted Priority Score from 1 to 100. This doesn't measure whether a product shows up, but rather whether its visibility produces revenue. The clever bit is the relevance gate: attribute completeness sets a floor, so we only flag SKUs where thin data is the fix. That's where work pays off.
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Prioritize

Ascend's Priority Queue refreshes continuously and sorts SKUs by what each needs, not just "fix the data."

ENRICH: Data's the problem, we own the fix.

INVESTIGATE: Data's fine, so it's a pricing or merchandising call — we flag it, you decide.

MONITOR: Healthy, leave it alone for now. 
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Enrich

Pivotree's enrichment pairs AI for breadth and speed with specialists for taxonomy, category nuance, and brand — the AI doesn't run wild, the specialists don't grind on what it does faster. Feed us PDFs, scrapes, half-broken CSVs, or we'll pull from the live web. Every output maps to your taxonomy and channels.
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Publish

Enriched data lands in your source systems. Your PIM stays the system of record; we keep it clean. Every product on your Golden Record meets completeness and quality bars your business needs, not a vendor's best practice. Publish to a marketplace, search index, or AI agent — no reformatting in flight.
The Loop

Performance data drives prioritization. Prioritization drives enrichment. Enrichment lands back in your source systems. The loop runs again — and every cycle leaves your catalog measurably better than the last.

Not a tool you have to use or a project to manage.

Business outcomes.
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Search

 

Buyers ask Google and ChatGPT before you, and the answer engine decides what to buy. Unstructured data leaves you invisible. We measure against buyers' queries.

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Find

 

Site search serves buyers who already trust you. If they can't filter to a 24V, IP67 component in two clicks, they bounce — your costliest leak.

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Conversion

 

What happens after they find it — sales, RFQs, returns, disputes. We measure conversion against the SKUs we've enriched, so you see lift, not just activity.

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Data Quality

 

We score every SKU against a standard we define together — attributes, taxonomy, channel and image coverage. The score moves monthly; the board can read it.

Not a tool you have to use. Not a project to manage. Business outcomes.
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Search

Buyers ask Google and ChatGPT before you, and the answer engine decides what to buy. Unstructured data leaves you invisible. We measure against buyers' queries.

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Find

Site search serves buyers who already trust you. If they can't filter to a 24V, IP67 component in two clicks, they bounce — your costliest leak.

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Conversion

What happens after they find it — sales, RFQs, returns, disputes. We measure conversion against the SKUs we've enriched, so you see lift, not just activity.

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Data Quality

We score every SKU against a standard we define together — attributes, taxonomy, channel and image coverage. The score moves monthly; the board can read it.

What you get with Ascend Catalog Pro

A dedicated team on day one

From kickoff, you have a governance lead, a taxonomy architect, enrichment specialists, and an optimization function on point. No staff-up phase. No "discovery quarter" before real work starts.

Essential product data filled in 90 days

Every active SKU gets brought up to the standard we set together for the channels you sell on. Not a sample, not a pilot category — the working catalog. By day 90, the gap between what's in your PIM and what your channels need is measurably closed.

Continuous data enrichment

After the 90-day fill, the cycle keeps running. New products onboard to standard. Existing SKUs get re-prioritized as performance data shifts. The Priority Score keeps the team focused on whatever will produce the most lift this month — guaranteed better every cycle.

Channel-ready onboarding

New product introductions used to mean a six-week delay before the SKU could be marketed properly. Ascend onboards every new product to the channel-ready standard before it ever hits your PIM. Supplier handoff to live listing without the bottleneck.

Real ROI you can show the board

We report monthly on completeness, data quality, and directional commerce indicators tied to the SKUs we've worked. One view. Refreshed monthly. Built for the conversation you'll have with your CFO, not the one you'll have with your developer.

A quarterly strategy review

Every quarter, leadership sits down with our governance lead. We review what's working, what's stuck, and where to redirect priority. Scope can flex, standards can sharpen, the program adapts as your business does.

Six commitments. Every one of them measurable.

A dedicated team on day one

From kickoff, you have a governance lead, a taxonomy architect, enrichment specialists, and an optimization function on point. No staff-up phase. No "discovery quarter" before real work starts.

Essential product data filled in 90 days

Every active SKU gets brought up to the standard we set together for the channels you sell on. Not a sample, not a pilot category — the working catalog. By day 90, the gap between what's in your PIM and what your channels need is measurably closed.

Continuous data enrichment

After the 90-day fill, the cycle keeps running. New products onboard to standard. Existing SKUs get re-prioritized as performance data shifts. The Priority Score keeps the team focused on whatever will produce the most lift this month — guaranteed better every cycle.

Channel-ready onboarding

New product introductions used to mean a six-week delay before the SKU could be marketed properly. Ascend onboards every new product to the channel-ready standard before it ever hits your PIM. Supplier handoff to live listing without the bottleneck.

Real ROI you can show the board

We report monthly on completeness, data quality, and directional commerce indicators tied to the SKUs we've worked. One view. Refreshed monthly. Built for the conversation you'll have with your CFO, not the one you'll have with your developer.

A quarterly strategy review

Every quarter, leadership sits down with our governance lead. We review what's working, what's stuck, and where to redirect priority. Scope can flex, standards can sharpen, the program adapts as your business does.

This isn't a side project for us.

We’ve spent 20+ years building and managing the systems that get products from a database to a doorstep — PIM, MDM, commerce platforms, the integrations between them, and the operations that keep all of it honest after go-live.

Ascend is what we’ve learned from running catalog work at that scale, productized into a managed program. The taxonomies, the enrichment workflows, the scoring model, the reporting cadence — none of it is theoretical. It's the actual work, packaged so a buyer can buy it.

Every product moves twice. Ascend is how the digital trip stops generating busywork and starts generating measurable lift.

This isn’t a side project for us.

We’ve spent 20+ years building and managing the systems that get products from a database to a doorstep — PIM, MDM, commerce platforms, the integrations between them, and the operations that keep all of it honest after go-live.

Ascend is what we’ve learned from running catalog work at that scale, productized into a managed program. The taxonomies, the enrichment workflows, the scoring model, the reporting cadence — none of it is theoretical. It's the actual work, packaged so a buyer can buy it.

Every product moves twice. Ascend is how the digital trip stops generating busywork and starts generating measurable lift.

FREE CATALOG ASSESSMENT

See where your catalog stands.

FREE CATALOG ASSESSMENT

See where your catalog stands.

All we need is your website URL. We'll run your visible product catalog through our assessment tool and return a detailed report on your catalog, plus a one-pager about what this means for cost reduction and digital adoption. 

 
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No Charge

It's a complimentary assessment.

No Risk

Pulls from (and doesn't change) your existing data.

No Brainer

Find out which SKUs in your catalog are leaking revenue.

The questions buyers actually ask before they book.

The questions buyers actually ask before they book.

Catalog Management. Done.

You don’t need another tool, and you definitely don’t need another half-finished implementation. You need the catalog work done, by people on the hook for the outcome.
That’s Ascend.

Catalog Management. Done.

You don’t need another tool, and you definitely don’t need another half-finished implementation. You need the catalog work done, by people on the hook for the outcome.
That’s Ascend.

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