Typing a caption for every job photo one at a time — every Before, After, and Damage shot — adds up fast. The Photos gallery has a button that drafts one for you: click it, and SalesThumb reads the photo itself plus the job it's attached to, then writes a short caption you can edit before you save it.
Where to find it
1. Open the Photos gallery. Two ways in: click Schedules in the left-hand nav, then click the Photos tab in the tab strip along the top — or go straight to `/app/photos`. Both land you in the same cross-job photo gallery. (You can also press Cmd+Shift+K / Ctrl+Shift+K and search "Photos.") 2. Click any photo thumbnail to open it in the lightbox. 3. Below the photo is a Caption box. Next to the word "Caption," look for a small AI · suggest button with a sparkle icon.
Using it
1. With a photo open in the lightbox, click AI · suggest. 2. The button swaps to a spinner while it works — give it a few seconds. 3. When it finishes, the caption text field fills in with the suggested caption. Nothing is saved yet — it's sitting in the draft field for you to look over. 4. Edit it if you want to reword it, add a detail, or shorten it. It's a normal text field. 5. Press Enter, or click Save (it appears once the text differs from what's currently saved), to actually save the caption. If you don't want it, click Discard to throw the draft away and go back to whatever caption was there before.
What it's actually reading
SalesThumb sends the photo file itself to a vision model, along with the job's vehicle (year, color, make, model) and service name, so the suggestion is grounded in what's actually in the shot rather than guessed from a filename or upload timestamp. If the photo file can't be read for some reason — an unusually large file, a storage hiccup — it still returns a caption, just written from the job's vehicle and service details alone instead of the image. Either way, you get a caption to react to; it doesn't fail silently.
This works the same for any photo kind in the gallery — Before, After, Damage, Document, or Receipt.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't save anything by itself. The suggestion only fills the draft field — you still have to press Enter or click Save.
- It doesn't touch the saved caption until you save. If a photo already has a caption, clicking AI · suggest replaces the text sitting in the draft field, but the caption stored on the photo stays as-is unless you save over it.
- It's not available from the appointment's own Job Photos card. That's a separate, manual-only caption editor (hover a photo, click the pencil icon) — AI · suggest only lives in this Photos gallery lightbox.
- It doesn't caption a whole batch of photos at once. It's a per-photo draft — open each photo and click the button on that one.
Tips
- Skim it before saving. It's a strong starting draft, not guaranteed-final copy — a photo with no appointment or vehicle attached (uncommon, but possible) gets a more generic caption since there's less job context to work from.
- Since it's a per-photo action, it's most useful right after you upload a batch — open each new photo, suggest, skim, save, move to the next.
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Frequently asked questions
Q: Does clicking AI · suggest save the caption automatically?
A: No. It only fills in the draft caption field in the lightbox — you still need to press Enter or click Save to actually save it, or click Discard to throw the draft away.
Q: Which photos can I use it on?
A: Any photo in the gallery — Before, After, Damage, Document, or Receipt. Open the photo in the lightbox and the AI · suggest button is right there next to the Caption label.
Q: What does SalesThumb look at to write the caption?
A: The photo file itself, sent to a vision model, plus the job's vehicle (year, color, make, model) and service name. If the photo file can't be read, it falls back to writing a caption from the job's vehicle and service details alone, so you still get a suggestion.
Q: Where exactly is the AI · suggest button?
A: Open the Photos gallery (Schedules → Photos tab, or /app/photos), click a photo thumbnail to open the lightbox, and it's the small sparkle-icon button next to the word "Caption" in the caption box below the photo.
Q: Can I use it to caption a whole appointment's photos at once?
A: No — it's a per-photo action. Open each photo in the lightbox and click AI · suggest on that one. There's no bulk version of this button in the app today.