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We build multi-agent systems that run pricing, assortment, replenishment and returns inside your rules, and prepare your catalogue for the AI shopping agents your customers already use. Approval gates and daily-change limits are enforced in architecture.

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What is a multi-agent system in retail?

A multi-agent system in retail is a set of specialised AI agents for pricing, assortment, replenishment, content and customer operations that coordinate under an orchestrator and act in your commerce systems: PIM, OMS, ERP and POS. Agentic commerce is the second half: making your catalogue and checkout readable and transactable for AI shopping agents.

The problems worth automating first

Pricing reacts weekly in a daily market

Competitor moves, demand shifts and margin erosion happen continuously; your repricing happens when someone has time to run the report.

Product data is the bottleneck nobody budgets for

Every new SKU waits for attributes, translations and channel-specific formats. Every marketplace rejection is a day of lost sales.

Returns lose value by default

Resale, refurbish or write off: each return has a best economic path, and most operations lack the time to pick it.

An example agent team: who does what

A multi-agent system works like a team with clear roles. Here's an example lineup for a retail operation:

Market / order event

Orchestrator

Specialised agents

Pricing

Assortment

Replenishment

Content

Returns

Approval gates per rule set

Commerce systems

PIM · OMS · ERP · POS · marketplace APIs

Audit trail: every decision, input and rationale is logged

Pricing Agent

Watches competitors, elasticity and margin, and proposes price changes inside the rules you set: floor, ceiling, maximum daily movement.

Assortment Agent

Reads sales, seasonality and category gaps, and proposes assortment and planogram changes with the evidence attached.

Replenishment Agent

Recalculates coverage and order points per location and proposes replenishment before the shelf goes empty.

Content Agent

Enriches product data in your product information management system (PIM): attributes, descriptions, translations, marketplace compliance. A new SKU goes live in hours.

Returns Agent

Classifies each return, proposes the highest-value path, and flags abuse patterns.

Agentic Commerce Layer

Exposes catalogue, availability and checkout to your customers' AI shopping agents through emerging protocols (ACP, UCP), on your terms, with your guardrails.

Orchestrator

Routes the work, keeps the order of operations, and writes the audit trail for every decision.

Not every deployment needs the full lineup. Discovery tells you which two or three earn their keep first.

Orchestration, approval gates and audit trails work the same way in every system we ship.

See how multi-agent systems work

Use cases

What this looks like in your operation

What the agents do

Dynamic pricing

Market signal → price proposal within margin rules → write after approval

Assortment & merchandising

Category and gap analysis → planogram and assortment proposals

Replenishment

Per-location forecast → order proposals → allocation

Product data / PIM

Detect attribute gaps → enrich → validate for marketplaces

Returns & reverse logistics

Classify return → route to best-value path → dispatch

Agentic commerce readiness

Expose catalogue, stock and checkout to shopping agents

Systems touched

Dynamic pricing

Pricing engine, ERP, POS

Assortment & merchandising

ERP, POS, planogram

Replenishment

ERP, WMS, OMS

Product data / PIM

PIM, DAM, marketplace APIs

Returns & reverse logistics

OMS, WMS, ERP

Agentic commerce readiness

PIM, OMS, payment

What we measure

Dynamic pricing

Gross margin; markdown share; price-competitiveness index

Assortment & merchandising

Sales per m²; rotation; dead-stock share

Replenishment

In-stock rate; inventory level; emergency freight cost

Product data / PIM

Time-to-live per SKU; attribute completeness; feed rejections

Returns & reverse logistics

Cost per return; value recovery rate

Agentic commerce readiness

Share of traffic and revenue from the agent channel

What the agents do

Systems touched

What we measure

Dynamic pricing

Market signal → price proposal within margin rules → write after approval

Pricing engine, ERP, POS

Gross margin; markdown share; price-competitiveness index

Assortment & merchandising

Category and gap analysis → planogram and assortment proposals

ERP, POS, planogram

Sales per m²; rotation; dead-stock share

Replenishment

Per-location forecast → order proposals → allocation

ERP, WMS, OMS

In-stock rate; inventory level; emergency freight cost

Product data / PIM

Detect attribute gaps → enrich → validate for marketplaces

PIM, DAM, marketplace APIs

Time-to-live per SKU; attribute completeness; feed rejections

Returns & reverse logistics

Classify return → route to best-value path → dispatch

OMS, WMS, ERP

Cost per return; value recovery rate

Agentic commerce readiness

Expose catalogue, stock and checkout to shopping agents

PIM, OMS, payment

Share of traffic and revenue from the agent channel

From first call to production

01

Architecture Discovery (2 weeks)

We map your process, systems and constraints. You get a reference architecture for your case, a recommended autonomy level per step, and a prioritised roadmap ranked by business value, whether you build with us or not.

02

Pilot in shadow mode (6-8 weeks)

The system runs in parallel with your current process, on live data, writing nothing. Agents price, replenish and enrich one category alongside your team, and you compare margin, availability and time-to-live against the rest of the estate.

03

Production (8-12 weeks)

Integration with your systems through a controlled layer (MCP where possible), approval gates wired to your rule sets, audit trail switched on, security review passed.

04

AgentOps (ongoing)

Evaluation suites run on every change. We monitor accuracy, latency and cost per task, and re-evaluate the whole system when a model version changes, because a silent model update should never silently change your prices.

01

Architecture Discovery (2 weeks)

We map your process, systems and constraints. You get a reference architecture for your case, a recommended autonomy level per step, and a prioritised roadmap ranked by business value, whether you build with us or not.

02

Pilot in shadow mode (6-8 weeks)

The system runs in parallel with your current process, on live data, writing nothing. Agents price, replenish and enrich one category alongside your team, and you compare margin, availability and time-to-live against the rest of the estate.

03

Production (8-12 weeks)

Integration with your systems through a controlled layer (MCP where possible), approval gates wired to your rule sets, audit trail switched on, security review passed.

04

AgentOps (ongoing)

Evaluation suites run on every change. We monitor accuracy, latency and cost per task, and re-evaluate the whole system when a model version changes, because a silent model update should never silently change your prices.

See how we've helped our clients

Embedded AI in a cybersecurity platform serving Fortune 500 clients: by embedding a conversational AI layer into the platform, we cut customer onboarding time by 95% and turned a quarterly reporting tool into a daily decision-support system.

Why us

Why enterprises choose us

We're a 50-person, cross-functional software development team based in Warsaw, Poland, building technology that delivers ROI, strong governance, and real adoption.

10

years delivering digital products

est. 2016

100+

products shipped

web & mobile

50+

experts on board

Product & UX designers, Software engineers, AI specialists, PMs

75

client NPS

Praised for communication, pace and quality

5

continents served

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa

Frequently asked questions

Within rules, yes, if you choose: floors, ceilings, maximum daily movement, category scope. Outside those rules, never. Most clients start with every change approved, then widen autonomy per category as the shadow-mode record earns it.

Through the same validated APIs your integrations already use, with schema validation before every write and a full change log. In the pilot, agents propose only: you see exactly what they would have written before they write anything.

It's commerce conducted by your customers' AI agents: they read your catalogue, compare offers and complete checkout programmatically. The protocols (ACP, UCP) are young but moving fast. The pragmatic first step is structured, agent-readable product data, which pays for itself in marketplace operations regardless of how fast the agent channel grows.

A recommendation engine suggests products to humans. These agents run operations: pricing, stock, content, returns, acting in your systems within rules. The recommendation engine keeps its job; the agents take over the spreadsheet work around it.

Blast-radius limits are architectural: per-category and per-day change budgets, staged rollouts for estate-wide actions, and a rule that anything touching every location simultaneously requires a named human approval. One bad call stays one bad call.

Six to eight weeks in shadow mode on live data: the agents price, replenish and enrich one category in parallel with your team, write nothing, and you get a side-by-side on margin, availability and speed before deciding anything.

Which category would you let agents run first?

Tell us how pricing, product data and returns run through your operation today. We'll tell you which process agents should take first, which autonomy level is safe, and what the pilot would look like.

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