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Store operations

Labour scheduling, replenishment exceptions, task management across the fleet.

Shipped against
  • C-store chain (top-10 US)
  • Off-price retailer
  • Mass merchant
  • Grocery banner (regional)
  • Specialty footwear chain

Anonymised — clients under NDA

−4%
shrink at the store level
11 wks
to production MVP
6-person
squad with store-ops manager

The context

Store operations runs on a thousand small decisions a day across labour, replenishment, and task management. The store manager makes them with partial information.

Why it doesn't scale today

Centralised store-operations software treats every store the same. The actual store manager knows their store. Software that ignores that — or asks them to fight it — gets ignored.

What we ask in week one

  • iWhich decisions in your operation should sit centrally, which at the store, and where does the agent layer add value to each?
  • iiHow do we give your store manager an override that captures the why — so your central planning team learns from it the next cycle?
  • iiiWhat is the cadence — daily, hourly — at which an operating signal actually needs to reach your stores?
  • ivHow do we measure success in your shrink, service level, and labour productivity at the store level?

What we build

Agents that watch the operating signal, surface the right exception to the right store at the right time, and give the store manager an override surface with context. The store manager stays in charge; the small-decisions overhead disappears.

Why we're the right squad

Our retail practice has spent years inside the store operator's workflow. We know what the store manager will accept, what they will not, and how to design for both.

What you keepA system, not a prototype
  • Documentation

    Architecture, data contracts, deployment runbooks, eval criteria — written for the team that owns it next.

  • Infrastructure

    IaC, monitoring, rollback, on-call playbooks. Standard tooling, not bespoke.

  • Evals

    Eval harness + prompts + labelled fixtures + regression suite. Extends with your team.

  • Architect anchor

    A lead architect from our side stays in your Slack for at least 90 days post-handoff.

Want to scope this for your team?

We'll come back with a pod composition, a 2-week discovery sprint plan, and a price — measured against the KPI you care about, not against activity.

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