Almost everything that matters in retail AI depends on what the system can see. A support agent that can read order status, carrier tracking and returns history — and take a bounded set of actions within a value limit — resolves a large share of routine contacts; the same model over a help centre resolves very few. Search that knows which products actually sell together outperforms search that only knows the product text.
So we start with the integration, and we measure rather than quote. Deflection is measured on your own ticket history. Forecast quality is measured against your sales record. The system proposes stock and budget rebalancing; a planner confirms it, because an automated commit converts a data error into a financial one.