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How Tandant Helped Us Build a 50-Year Project in Just 6 Years
When we started building Salient, we knew it would be massive.
Millions of games. Millions of covers. Millions of variants. Every console. Every product. Every photo scanned, straightened, cropped, and tagged—at scale.
But here’s the thing no one talks about: product data is easy. Clean, standardized, usable product images? That’s the real bottleneck.
And if we had done it the traditional way—one editor, one photo at a time—we estimated the full project would’ve taken over 50 years.
That wasn’t an option. So we did something different. We built a workflow with Tandant.
🧠 Process First, Then People
We didn’t just throw editors at the problem. Tandant helped us build an actual system—a true visual workflow inside our own editing software, designed for scale, accuracy, and speed.
The workflow includes:
- Audit trails for every photo touched
- Action timers to benchmark edit times and flag slowdowns
- Quality assurance stages built into the software—no second platform needed
- Real-time performance reports sent directly to managers
All of it managed by in-office Tandant teams—trained editors working inside secured production hubs, not scattered freelancers or gig workers.
📷 14 Million Photos and Counting
As of today, we’re positioned to edit, tag, and publish over 14 million high-quality product photos into Salient’s platform. That includes:
- Box fronts and spines
- Disc labels, cartridge tops
- Manuals, inserts, accessories, and more
And we’re not guessing. We’re on pace to finish it all in just 6 years—not 50.
That’s the difference between building a pipeline… and winging it.
💰 The Savings? Measured in Millions
If we had used traditional domestic labor? We’d be looking at:
- $15–$20 per batch (minimum)
- Years of inconsistent edits
- Impossible QA at scale
Instead, we built a system where batch edits cost a fraction of that—at speed, with audit trails, and with all data tied back to Salient IDs in real time.
Tandant didn’t just save us money. It made Salient’s entire vision possible.
🚀 Final Thought
In this space, data is king—but presentation wins the customer.
Our image pipeline is now a competitive advantage. It’s clean. It’s fast. It’s accurate. And it’s entirely managed by the teams we built through Tandant.
We didn’t outsource. We engineered a solution—and Tandant executed it.
— Drew Renslow, Founder of Salient & Tandant
