Ground · 02

The operational work, handled.

Ground is the execution layer beneath Pulse. Three AI agents run automatically each cycle — reading your trading data, applying your strategic anchors, and surfacing structured buying and merchandising decisions for your approval. Approve, defer, or override each one.

Pulse tells you what to decide. Ground handles what follows.

The Pulse brief surfaces the insight — sell-through is tracking below plan, aged stock is building, the reorder window on your top styles closes this week. That intelligence belongs at the executive layer. The analysis that supports acting on it belongs somewhere else.

Ground's AI agents do that analysis automatically. Every agent runs off the same trading data that feeds Pulse, applies your stated margin posture and strategic anchors, and produces a structured brief for the relevant buyer or planner. No manual exports. No spreadsheet rebuilds. No decisions made on gut feel because nobody had time to run the numbers.

The executive sees a summary in Pulse. The buying team gets the full detail from Ground — and approves, defers, or overrides each recommendation. Both happen automatically, every cycle.

The agents

02

OTB Agent

Beta

Open-to-buy planning and brand decisioning

For: Planned-buying retailers — boutiques, multi-brand, omnichannel

Runs: Monthly

Reads your monthly sales actuals, stock position, and aged inventory to calculate open-to-buy by brand and season — then surfaces reorder, markdown, and exit decisions for buyer approval. The GM sees which brands have budget to deploy and which are overcommitted. The buyer approves, defers, or overrides each recommendation with a note that feeds back into the next cycle. The buying decision stays with the buyer; the agent does the analytical work behind it.

Saves

Half a day of monthly spreadsheet work, plus the accountability loop that replaces the follow-up meeting

Output

OTB remaining by brand, on-order reconciliation, aged stock flags, season position versus plan. Each recommendation presented for approve / defer / override.

More agents in development. The Ground suite will expand to cover additional retail operating functions — marketing execution, paid media pacing, and category-specific planning agents. Each new agent slots into Growth tier when it ships.

Every agent recommendation is constrained by your stated strategy.

A margin-protection retailer gets different markdown recommendations than a growth-led retailer — even with identical sell-through data. A retailer committed to full-price integrity will see that reflected in how the Margin Recovery Agent stages its clearance recommendations. The strategic anchors you set in onboarding aren't just context for Pulse. They are the decision rules every Ground agent operates within.

The agents don't just run numbers. They run numbers within the constraints of what your business has said it stands for.

Your team should be making decisions. Not building the analysis behind them.