Lacuna/Labs
deep-finance-vae-listing-embed
deep purple
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NAME

deep-finance-vae-listing-embed — "Your top sellers share a structural feature your bottom 20 lack — same warm-toned background + same caption structure."

SYNOPSIS

id deep-finance-vae-listing-embed tier deep-purple section §22. Finance — AI/subsystem + deep-purple cluster (37) trigger operator-asked shape SINGLE

DESCRIPTION

Squeeze every listing through a narrow neural funnel that keeps only the features that matter for selling, then look at where your top sellers cluster in that compressed space. Your bottom listings probably sit in a different neighborhood.

"Your top sellers share a structural feature your bottom 20 lack — same warm-toned background + same caption structure."

MECHANISM

DATAyour cortexFITVAEPOSTERIORcredible bandFORECASTdecision

not-yet-implemented — no cart file at curator-web/src/scheme/carts/…/deep-finance-vae-listing-embed.sks

EXAMPLES

Sakura uses this when your top sellers feel like they share something but you can't name it. A variational autoencoder learns a compressed representation of every listing — photo, caption, tags — and clusters them. "Your top sellers share warm backgrounds and short captions. Your bottom 20 don't."

TIER

deep purple
deep reasoning · batched · dollars per run

FITNESS

Not yet

This method only gives a real answer above a sample threshold. Running it on a small shop produces a confidence band the size of the universe — useless. When the shop crosses the threshold, this lights up.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

canonical source: curator/docs/AUTOMATIONS-CANONICAL.md · §22-finance-aisubsystem-deep-purple-cluster-37
last regenerated: 2026-06-05 20:31 UTC (mechanical — edits land in the MD or sidecars, not here)

KNOWN BUGS

(none recorded — flag in AUTOMATIONS-CANONICAL.md or open an issue against the cart file)