Cold-Starting a New Product Category

The marketplace this system serves is expanding into large furniture — a category it has never carried before. In the first two weeks after launch, the fidelity gate's pass rate for furniture listings is 78% (versus 99%+ for established categories), and the human-escalation queue for furniture SKUs is growing faster than the QA team can clear it.

1. Explain why furniture specifically, rather than a random new category, is likely to stress this pipeline harder than most.
2. Propose a concrete, prioritized plan for the first month to bring furniture's fidelity-gate pass rate back toward parity with established categories.
3. A PM proposes simply routing all furniture SKUs to full human review until the pass rate improves, bypassing the automatic gate and regenerate loop entirely. Evaluate this proposal against the volume assumptions from Step 1.