Pulse · 01
Know where you stand, before the week starts.
Pulse reads across your entire retail business every week and takes a position on what it means. Quarter first, week underneath, and the decision that follows from both — in a five-minute read.
Quarter needs 2.6x current run rate; paid scale closes only 22% of this week's gap.
Another week at this rate adds $71K to the quarter shortfall
Refunds at 40.8% against a 30% target — $32,800 of recoverable revenue
Inventory at 64.2w cover vs 40w target — scaling demand without exit velocity compounds margin risk
QTD ACTUALS
$281K
traded to date
PLAN TO DATE
$583K
same point
GAP TO PLAN
−$303K
actual vs plan
PROJECTED Q-END
$810K
at current rate
Quarter landing at current run rate
48% of plan · shortfall to plan $868K
The aggregated view
Cross-lever review shows the intersection of suppressed traffic, refund leakage above target and excess cover is the real block. None of these levers alone closes the gap.
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What the brief covers
Four things, every week.
Every brief opens on the quarter — where you stand against plan, what run rate is required from here, and where it lands at the current rate. The week is then read as evidence against that frame. Where the quarter can no longer be closed by trading, the brief says so and shifts to what must be protected next.
Department-level detail sits underneath, available when someone wants to go deeper — but the brief itself is written for the people making the call.
The companion
Most tools tell you what happened. Pulse tells you what to do about it.
A dashboard hands you the numbers and leaves the interpretation to you. Pulse does the interpretation — the part a good merchandise director does in their head, and the part that takes a day when there isn't one in the room.
It weighs the levers against each other, decides which one is actually the constraint, and says so. Where the evidence supports two readings, it says that too.
You are not reading a report and forming a view. You are reading a view, and deciding whether you agree.
Not a dashboard
No filters to set, no charts to read
Not a summary
A position, with the reasoning shown
Not automated
You approve, defer or override
Beyond your own numbers
Your numbers tell you what happened. They don't tell you whether you're still relevant.
Pulse reads external market, trend and category signals alongside your trading data — so a soft week is read against what is actually happening in your category, not in isolation.
Trend direction
Signals are tracked by market and classified as emerging, accelerating or fading — so a category lifting elsewhere is visible before it shows in your own numbers.
Category relevance
Whether your range still sits where demand is moving. A category holding sell-through while the market accelerates around it is a relevance problem, not a trading one.
Read against the week
Signals are read alongside your trading position, so the brief can separate a demand problem from a range problem — and say which one you are actually looking at.
Demand windows
Your GTM calendar sits in the same read. A soft week ahead of a major activation carries a different decision than the same week with nothing planned behind it.
Anchored to strategy
An emerging trend is only worth chasing if it fits what the business committed to. Signals are framed against your strategic anchors rather than surfaced as noise.
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The compounding advantage
Week one is useful. Week fifty-two is irreplaceable.
Every brief, recommendation and decision is kept. The read gets sharper because it has something to compare against — and the context stays when people move on.
Upload your data. Set your strategic anchors. Receive your first brief.
Patterns emerge. Initiative progress is tracked across the quarter. Momentum changes how trajectory is read.
Quarter closes. Drift was caught at week six. Two problems were surfaced before they became material.
A full year of trading context. Seasonal patterns understood. When the board asks why a decision was made in March, the context is already there.
The platform
Pulse frames the decision. The rest of the platform carries it.
The rhythm
It arrives before you need it, every week.
Data in
Five minutes by template, or automatically from your commerce platform.
Brief out
Approved and delivered before your review day.
Read in five
The position, the tensions and the decisions — no assembly required.
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