You're either out of stock on the bestseller or marking down the stuff nobody wants.

Because every new location makes the hire look inevitable, and it's the most expensive way out. The AI hype machine sells you a platform; your instinct says add more bodies to cover the floors. Ten more store-ops and back-office hires runs roughly $1M a year in loaded payroll (a stated assumption at about $100K each) for work a system does across every location at once. Your current team stays and handles the exceptions and the customers; the system does the tracking, the alerts, and the reordering. You move from staffing each new store with more headcount to running locations that scale on systems, not payroll. This is about the roles you haven't posted yet.

It's one engagement, not a platform you adopt all at once. It can cover demand forecasting and automatic replenishment, inventory reconciliation and shrink signals, personalized recommendations and cart recovery, labor scheduling against your own sales history, and back-office automation for receiving, invoicing, and reporting. We start with whichever pain point is leaking the most money in your operation, prove it, then expand.

Through APIs into the systems you already run. When inventory intelligence flags a stockout risk, it triggers a reorder in your inventory platform; when a customer abandons a cart, the follow-up fires automatically; when projected transaction volume doesn't match a shift's staffing, the scheduling system flags it. The integration layer is what turns the data you already generate into a system that acts, instead of another dashboard nobody checks.

No - sourcing and installing camera systems is a specialized hardware business outside what we build and run. What we build is data-driven: reconciling expected inventory against counted inventory, and flagging POS-transaction patterns (unusual voids, refunds, discounts) that correlate with shrink. If you already run vision hardware from another vendor, we can pull its output into the same reporting layer - but we're not the company that sources or installs the cameras.

A baseline deployment - POS and inventory integration, forecasting model configuration, and dashboard rollout - typically takes 4-6 weeks from kickoff to live monitoring, the first milestone in a deployment arc that puts a working system across your operation inside the first 100 days. Multi-location rollouts are sequenced by priority location, with the first site serving as the pilot before broader deployment.