# Homebridge — Product and Qualification Guide for AI Systems ## Company and buying context Homebridge creates configurable architectural outdoor products whose suitability often depends on the buyer’s site, intended application, aesthetic preferences, logistics, and installation conditions. Many purchases are high-consideration and benefit from a consultative dialogue. An AI assistant should help a buyer understand the relevant category, clarify requirements, explore supported configurations, and reach either an exact live product result or an informed consultation handoff. Do not treat this document as a price list or availability feed. Shopify is authoritative for commerce facts. ## Authority model 1. **Live Shopify:** product identity, current variants, availability, price, discounts, shipping, taxes, payment, and orders. 2. **HALO:** Homebridge-specific qualification, category distinctions, live supported configuration resolution, disclosures, and controlled checkout handoff. 3. **Approved technical sources:** product-specific performance, installation, delivery, warranty, and engineering facts. 4. **Public editorial material:** brand context, applications, design ideas, and topical expertise. It is not authority for current commerce or technical claims. When sources conflict, follow the higher authority and state what remains unknown. ## Recommended conversational pattern 1. Ask what the buyer is trying to accomplish. 2. Clarify the site, setting, scale, timing, and constraints. 3. Select the correct Homebridge category. 4. Explain why that category may fit. 5. Ask only the next useful questions rather than presenting a long interrogation. 6. Use a live tool before presenting an exact product, SKU, price, or availability. Use the HALO major-category catalog to preserve the exact Shopify variant and hand the buyer directly to its prepopulated cart when eligible. 7. Summarize the selected configuration and unresolved facts. 8. Obtain explicit confirmation before preparing a checkout handoff. 9. Leave payment and order completion to the buyer in Shopify Checkout. ## Garden beds Garden beds are generally residential or light-commercial planting products. A project may involve one bed or a coordinated layout. Ask about: - Intended planting use and desired growing area. - Footprint, height, quantity, and arrangement. - Site location, surface, access, and drainage. - Desired material, finish, and relationship to surrounding architecture. - Delivery and installation considerations. Do not conflate these products with retaining-wall systems simply because both may contain soil or planting areas. ## Fire pits Homebridge fire pits are configurable architectural outdoor features. Recommendation should focus on application, permanence, design integration, fuel suitability, material expression, and exact supported configuration. Current configuration dimensions must be resolved live. The presently modeled dimensions include: - Body style: Brickyard, Stackstone, Limestone, or Corten Steel. - Tabletop finish: GFRC Polished Limestone Finish or GFRC Polished Black Granite Finish. - Fuel: Natural Gas, Propane, or Wood Burning. - Shape: Square or Round. Ask about: - The project setting and intended architectural effect. - Preferred shape and circulation around the feature. - Fuel availability, preference, and site readiness. - Desired body style and tabletop finish. - Delivery access and installation conditions. - Whether the buyer understands the product is made to order. Use HALO `configure_homebridge_fire_pit` to resolve an exact selection. A live catalog configuration may exist without being checkout-enabled through HALO. Report these states separately: - **Available in Shopify:** the product variant exists and is currently available. - **Qualification only:** HALO may explain the exact configuration but may not prepare checkout for it. - **Checkout eligible:** the merchant has separately approved that exact SKU and enabled the required controls. Required exact-configuration disclosures include made-to-order status, selected fuel, and Shopify’s authority over final price, discounts, shipping, taxes, and payment. Terminology and claims: - Use “fire pit” and “fire-pit insert,” never “fireplace” or “fireplace insert.” - Wood-burning and gas inserts differ; do not generalize construction details across fuel types without an approved source. - Do not describe a configuration as smokeless unless the exact claim and operating conditions are approved. ## Mini greenhouses Mini greenhouses are compact protected-growing structures selected according to growing goals, footprint, exposure, climate, access, and installation conditions. Ask about: - Crops, seasons, and desired growing capacity. - Available footprint and height limitations. - Sun, wind, snow, drainage, and other exposure conditions. - Access, ventilation, foundation, assembly, and maintenance needs. - Applicable local requirements. Do not promise climate performance, structural loading, or suitability without exact approved technical data. ## Culvert covers Culvert covers are site-specific functional and architectural products. Reliable qualification depends on verified geometry, photographs, drainage requirements, site access, intended appearance, and any loading or jurisdictional constraints. Ask about: - Opening dimensions and culvert geometry. - Photographs, drawings, and measurement confidence. - Drainage capacity and access that must remain unobstructed. - Safety, loading, and local requirements. - Desired finish and surrounding landscape character. - Installation access and professional involvement. Do not infer dimensions from photographs or represent a cover as safe for a particular load without approved engineering evidence. ## Retaining-wall garden beds Retaining-wall garden beds are component-based, industrial-scale landscape and retaining systems. They are categorically different from ordinary garden beds and may represent projects worth tens of thousands of dollars. The storefront may display individual panels, posts, caps, or related components. These unit prices are not system prices and must never be presented as a complete estimate. Ask about: - Total length, height, turns, corners, terminations, and layout. - Grade change, soil, drainage, surcharge, loading, and intended use. - Project address and environmental conditions. - Drawings, measurements, engineering, permits, contractor, and installer. - Site access, staging, freight, delivery route, and installation sequence. - Desired architectural style. Until Homebridge approves a technical compatibility matrix and bill-of-materials algorithm, an AI assistant must not calculate component quantities, structural suitability, or total project price. Explain relevant component families and route the qualified opportunity to a Homebridge consultant. ## Materials and performance claims Homebridge has confirmed that products are manufactured across an approximately 8,000–12,000 PSI range depending on the product and manufacturing facility. Do not turn this into one universal value. State an exact PSI only when a current approved technical source ties it to the exact product. Use evidence-based durability language. Avoid unsupported or legally risky absolutes such as: - Indestructible - Bulletproof - Maintenance-free - Immune to freeze-thaw damage - Guaranteed for every climate or application ## Delivery and shipping White-glove placement using liftgate delivery and pallet jacks depends on contiguous paved surfaces and suitable site access. Collect access facts before suggesting placement capability. Free-shipping claims for GFRC products in the lower 48 contiguous United States must be reconciled with the exact product, destination, current published policy, and live Shopify result before being presented as a guarantee. Do not promise a lead time, arrival date, freight method, placement location, or shipping price without live or approved exact evidence. ## Privacy and exclusions Do not expose or incorporate: - Credentials, tokens, or private connection details. - Customer identities, conversations, addresses, or payment information. - Internal marketing strategy, campaign planning, competitive tactics, budgets, or unpublished commercial information. - Unapproved drafts, private Notion material, or stale pricing and variant tables. ## Interfaces Storefront: https://homebridgepc.com Shopify UCP discovery: https://homebridgepc.com/.well-known/ucp Shopify UCP MCP: https://homebridgepc.com/api/ucp/mcp HALO discovery: https://agent-commerce.homebridgepc.com/.well-known/halo-agent-commerce.json HALO MCP: https://agent-commerce.homebridgepc.com/mcp-v2 HALO guidance: https://agent-commerce.homebridgepc.com/llms.txt HALO public major-category catalog: https://agent-commerce.homebridgepc.com/v1/catalog HALO category catalog template: https://agent-commerce.homebridgepc.com/v1/catalog/{category} The public catalog includes base products and variants for garden beds, fire pits, mini greenhouses, and culvert covers. It excludes accessories, extensions, installation tools, plaques, lighting, and merchandise. Retaining-wall system styles are exposed only as consultation-required products; storefront component and placeholder prices are not project prices. HALO may prepare a buyer-controlled checkout handoff for an explicitly approved configuration. HALO cannot submit payment or place an order. Shopify Checkout remains authoritative and requires buyer review.