Talk to build a product
Describe a product in your own words and get a working recipe back.
What this is for
Talk to build is the fast way into the catalogue. Describe the product the way you would explain it to a new starter — out loud or typed — and Sign OS builds the recipe: the material, the processes, the labour. Every draft is priced on the real engine before you see it, but you still need to check the materials, assumptions and price before using it.
What is on this screen
Each part of the screen above, top to bottom, and what changing it affects.
- The description box · 🎤 · Send
- Say or type the product the way you would explain it on the bench. The example prompts show the right level of detail.
- The conversation
- Follow-up questions filling gaps it could not read from your description.
- The product panel (right)
- What it is made from, what it costs you and what it sells for, priced on the real engine as you talk. Made from names your catalogue rows; Worth checking flags guesses.
- Approve · Open the product
- Nothing is saved until you approve. Then it is a product like any other, and Open the product takes you straight to it.
Before you start
- The materials, items and machine rates the product uses are already in your catalogue.
- The AI assistant is switched on for your shop.
Step by step
- 1
Open Catalogue → Talk to build.
- 2
Describe the product. Click Start dictation and say it, or type it — 'a printed and laminated banner on 440gsm, hemmed and eyeleted every 500mm' is the right level of detail.
- 3
Answer the follow-up questions it asks. It is filling in the gaps it could not read from your description.
- 4
Read the summary: Made from tells you which of your catalogue rows it used, and Worth checking flags anything it guessed at.
Note: Worth checking is the part to actually read. Where your catalogue does not have the right row, it falls back to a sensible default for that kind of product — which may not be what you meant.
- 5
Approve it, then press Open the product and check its price at a couple of real sizes.
Tips & gotchas
- It builds a product, not a quote. Once the product exists, quoting it is a normal premade line.
- Fabricated work — lightboxes, neon, built-up letters, tactile signage — often cannot resolve yet, because the acrylic, extrusion and LED rows it needs do not have sell units set. Build those materials properly first and it works far better.
- Approved products open in the same product builder as products made by hand. Change their option boxes and recipe sentences there, then check the price again.