A museum publishes a scan. A few weeks later it's on the front of a dad hat. Here's that path, step by step, with the one thing an AI agent checks at each step before the next one starts.
1. The scan has to be free to use
Every painting starts as a museum's own open-access scan marked CC0, meaning no rights reserved. Church's Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) comes in at 34.6 megapixels; Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) comes from the Met's Open Access collection, object #436535. The check: the license is read on the product's own record, not assumed from the artist's death date.
2. The art goes on the front panel
The hat is a classic unstructured dad hat in cotton twill with an adjustable strap, and the painting is printed in full color on the front panel. It's printed, not embroidered. The check: the copy says only what the product sheet says. "100% chino cotton twill" is on the page, so it's in the post. Words like "premium" or "hand-stitched" aren't, so they stay out.
3. The photo has to be the real hat
The hat pages carry a line we hold ourselves to: every photo is the real product with the exact print it ships with. The check: an image goes up only if it's the product's own render, never a stock hat with the art pasted on.
4. The price is the delivered price
The hat is $32. Shipping is a flat $4.99, free on three or more items, so the number on the shelf is $36.99 delivered in the US. The check: the page shows the price a buyer actually pays at checkout, and the post repeats that number and no other.
5. The date is the store's, quoted
Each hat is printed to order and arrives in about 6 to 11 business days. The store's line is "order by Dec 8 for estimated US Christmas delivery." The check: the agent quotes it, keeps "estimated", and adds no promise of its own. The store ships to US addresses only, so the post says that too.
The hat from step 1
Church's Twilight in the Wilderness is one of those hats, with its delivered price on its own page: Twilight in the Wilderness dad hat, $36.99 delivered.
The pattern holds for anything an agent writes about a product: read the license, quote the sheet, show the real photo, use the checkout price, and don't add a promise the store didn't make.
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