Catalog
Shopify products become product workspaces
Northstar pulls real product and variant records into a view the operator can actually use. Product titles, SKUs, variants, supplier context, and jurisdiction notes stay attached to the same record.
Platform
The monthly workflow Northstar takes off the founder's plate
Northstar is intentionally narrow. It gives the merchant one operating layer between Shopify, product evidence, official alerts, and the internal decision trail.
Evidence
Current, missing, or needs review
Each product gets a plain-language checklist so a merchant can quickly see whether a document is on file, expiring, stale, or still missing.
Alerts
Official notices with practical match review
Northstar ingests official safety or recall signals and links them to likely catalog products with a confidence score and human-readable rationale.
Cases
Investigations stay explainable
When a product-alert pair matters, Northstar stores the owner, decision, notes, source links, and action trail in one investigation record.
What the operator sees
Labels and next steps written for normal people
A simple way to show how much of a product's required evidence is current right now.
A product-alert overlap that still needs a human to confirm or dismiss.
The case record that holds the written internal trail once a match matters enough to act on.
What this replaces
Northstar is for brands that are still piecing this together manually
Without Northstar
- Evidence spread across inboxes, folders, and shared drives
- Recall review living in memory or ad hoc notes
- No clean export when a retailer or supplier asks for status
With Northstar
- One SKU workspace per product
- One queue for missing or aging proof
- One written trail for confirmed, dismissed, and active investigations
See the live pilot