What this tool refuses to say about your item
Most AI writing tools are rewarded for sounding certain. Ask a general-purpose assistant to describe a photo of a sideboard and it will happily tell you it is mid-century Danish teak, likely 1962. It does not know that. Neither do you — and if you publish it, you are the one who wrote it.
VitrineList is built the other way around. Every detail it reports about your item carries a label saying how it knows, and the ones it cannot establish are kept out of the sales copy entirely. That restraint costs you nothing in search performance and removes the sentence that a dispute usually turns on.
The three labels
Every assessed detail comes back as one of these. They appear in the app exactly as they appear here — the same component renders both.
Brass pulls on all three drawers. A scalloped burgundy shade. The word “ITALY” legible on an underside stamp.
Wood species from the grain. An era from the styling. Whether a finish is lacquer or varnish.
Who made it. What year it was made. Whether it is authentic. What it is worth.
What it will not write, and why
These are not tone preferences. They are rules the model is held to on every single generation, and they are the reason the copy is safe to paste.
- It will not name a maker or a brand
- Unless a mark, label or signature is actually legible in one of your photos — in which case it quotes what the mark says and marks it observed. There is no “in the style of”, and no “attributed to”.
- It will not give an exact year
- Periods come back as ranges — “estimated 1950s–1970s” — and a period is never marked observed, because a photograph cannot date an object.
- It will not assert authenticity, provenance or value
- These are left out completely rather than hedged, because a hedged claim about authenticity is still a claim about authenticity.
- It hedges materials by default
- “Marble-look stone” rather than “Carrara marble”, “walnut-toned veneer” rather than “solid walnut”, unless the photo genuinely settles it.
- Unverified details never reach your copy
- Anything marked unverified is shown to you in the assessment panel, but is barred from appearing as a stated fact in any title or description.
What the difference looks like
Same photograph of an unmarked gilt side table. The first version is what a general assistant writes when you ask it for an Etsy listing.
Don't
Stunning authentic Louis XV giltwood side table, circa 1890, hand-carved in France by a master craftsman. Solid gold leaf over walnut. A rare investment piece worth several times the asking price.
Do
Gilt Two-Tier Side Table | Marble-Look Tops with Carved Shell Detail, Cabriole Legs, French Rococo Style Accent Table. Carved giltwood frame in the Rococo manner, with a shaped upper tier and cabriole legs ending in scrolled feet.
The second version is longer on the things a buyer searches for and silent on the five things the first version invented. It also ranks better: “gilt two-tier side table” and “carved shell detail” are phrases people type, and “authentic” is not.
Your house style can't override it
Paid plans let you save an instruction that shapes every listing's voice. That instruction is applied to tone and wording only. If it asks for a maker, a date, or an authenticity that the photographs do not establish, that part is ignored and the listing is written accurately instead. A style setting that could switch off the accuracy rules would make the labels worthless.
You can correct it, and the correction is labelled too
When the model misreads an item, you can tell it what the item actually is and regenerate. Your correction outranks the model's own read of the photo — you are holding the object and it is not. But anything that comes only from your note and is not visible in the photographs is marked inferred at best, never observed, and if the note asserts a maker or a date it is kept out of the title and description exactly like any other unverified claim.
What this does not do
- It is not authentication. It cannot tell you whether a piece is genuine, and it is designed never to imply that it can.
- It is not legal advice, and it is not a compliance guarantee. It removes the most common overclaims from your copy; the listing is still yours and the responsibility for it stays with you.
- It cannot see what you did not photograph. A chip on a back edge that is not in frame will not appear in the condition notes.
The related reading is the claims you can't make in a resale listing, which covers the same ground from the seller's side rather than the tool's.
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