IDEA Foundation
Industries/Retail & E-commerce

Catalog accuracy, demand precision, CX that compounds.

Automated category mapping, demand forecasting, intelligent document and email processing, RAG-powered service knowledge, and agentic operations — engineered for retailers and marketplaces moving inventory volumes that manual processes can't keep pace with.

Sector challenges
  • Catalog accuracy at scale — hundreds of thousands of SKUs across vendor partners with inconsistent taxonomies.
  • Demand forecasting that adapts to new channels, seasonality shifts, and promotional dynamics.
  • Service queues overwhelmed by repetitive enquiries that don't need a human first.
  • Returns, claims, and document handling consuming back-office time at unsustainable rates.
  • Customer experience inconsistency across channels — branch, app, web, contact centre.
Capabilities for this sector

The capabilities most often deployed here.

Automated category mapping

AI-driven product classification at scale — 95%+ accuracy across 8-level taxonomies. Hours, not months.

Demand forecasting

Custom forecasting models tuned to your data, channels, and seasonality.

Intelligent document & email processing

Classification, extraction, and routing — manual handling reduced substantially.

RAG-powered customer service

Knowledge assistants grounded in your products, policies, and systems of record.

Agentic operations

Multi-agent execution for repetitive multi-step workflows — returns, escalations, replenishment.

Custom e-commerce platforms

End-to-end product engineering for marketplaces, aggregators, and direct-to-consumer brands.

For retail operations that need accuracy, at speed.