No System to Decide and Automate What to Do With Dead Shopify Inventory

Summary

Shopify merchants can easily see which products aren't selling, but have no systematic way to decide what to DO with them. Every few weeks they manually guess which items to discount, how aggressively (10%? 30%?), rearrange the storefront, run promotions, and then repeat the entire cycle with no feedback on whether any of it actually worked. Existing inventory tools focus on tracking and forecasting but stop short of recommending an action and executing it — merchants are left 'eyeballing' dead stock and leaking margin, re-doing the same manual work endlessly. There is no affordable solution that analyzes the store, proposes which products to discount and by how much, and then automatically performs the Shopify changes while measuring results. This is a clear, unsolved, high-value opportunity for an indie developer building a Shopify-native automation app.