As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your stock for visible damage.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current quality-control procedure and damage criteria, and copy the rules for visible damage into the prompt where indicated.
   2. Gather clear photographs of each item from all relevant sides, including close-ups of marks, and keep the item code in each filename or alongside each image.
   3. Upload the photographs to a multimodal chatbot and paste the complete inspection prompt.
   4. Check that the response has an entry for every item and that each claimed defect is visible in the cited photograph.
   5. Retake blocked, dark or distant photographs and run those items through the prompt again, keeping any item marked uncertain in the review list.
   6. Ask a trained colleague to decide every uncertain or consequential case against the quality-control procedure, then record the final accept, repair, discount or reject decision in your stock system.

   Prompt

   Inspect the attached photographs of stock for visible physical damage only. Work through each item separately and use its item code or filename as the identifier. For each item, report: condition as "no visible damage", "visible damage" or "uncertain"; the exact visible location; a short description of the damage; confidence as high, medium or low; and the photograph or view supporting the finding. Do not infer hidden, internal or functional damage. Do not treat unusual colour, packaging variation or a reflection as damage unless the photograph clearly supports that conclusion. If an angle, image quality or lighting prevents a reliable decision, mark the item "uncertain" and state what additional photograph or human check is needed. Apply these inspection criteria: [paste your written damage criteria here]. Return a table followed by a separate list of items needing a colleague's decision. Do not recommend accepting or rejecting stock unless those rules explicitly say how to decide.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.