Generating units, categories and attributes

Three modules, three generators, one pattern. Each stages its output for review before anything is written.

Screen	Button	Permission
Units of measure	AI Suggestions	Generate Unit of Measurement using AI
Product categories	AI Suggestions	Generate Product Category With AI
Product attributes	AI Generate	Create Attributes with AI

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1. Units of measure

Figure 1 — The unit generator.

Describe the business; the generator proposes the units that business counts in. A cloud kitchen gets plates, bowls and portions alongside the metric basics.

Units have a second, cheaper option

Discover on the same screen scans your existing data for unit codes already in use but not formally defined, and adds them. It costs no credits. Try it before generating.

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2. Product categories

Figure 2 — The category generator.

Proposes a classification tree from a description of what you sell.

Generated categories arrive flat unless the tree already exists

The generator proposes categories; it does not reliably build a hierarchy for you. Expect to set parents yourself on the category screen afterwards.

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3. Product attributes

Figure 3 — The attribute generator.

Proposes attributes with their values — Spice Level: Mild / Medium / Hot / Extra Hot. This is the generator with the highest hit rate, because option sets are conventional within an industry.

Check two things on every generated attribute before approving:

Check	Why
The technical code	It is the stable handle for analytics and the API. Generated codes are usually sensible but rarely match an existing convention
It has ≥ 2 values	A single-value attribute produces no meaningful variation

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4. The review step

All three generators show their output before writing. Approve the rows you want, discard the rest.

Approving writes real records immediately

There is no second confirmation. An approved unit is a unit — it appears in every dropdown at once. Removing it afterwards is a delete, not an undo, and anything already pointing at it keeps pointing.

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5. Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause
No AI button	Missing …createwithai, or the AI utility is not entitled for the org — see the three gates
Output is generic	The business description was generic. Name your actual products
A generated language is invisible	The list screens show Bengali / English / Hindi only
Generation failed after spending credits	Retry; the cost of a failed call is not automatically refunded
Categories arrived without nesting	Expected — set parents by hand