Invent.ai, a global leader in AI-driven retail decision orchestration, has been recognized in a new report by Coresight Research titled “Playbook: AI for Productivity in Retail—Eight Areas of Opportunity."
The report explores how AI is reshaping retail operations, highlighting key areas including demand forecasting, inventory optimization, merchandising, store intelligence and supply chain execution. Invent.ai is featured among a group of technology providers enabling retailers to improve productivity and operational performance in increasingly complex environments.
Despite significant investment in data and analytics, many retailers continue to face a persistent challenge: the lag between identifying changes in performance and executing coordinated action. As market conditions evolve faster than traditional planning cycles can respond, speed of execution has become a critical driver of retail performance.
The Coresight playbook reflects this shift, noting growing demand for AI systems that go beyond insight generation to enable faster, more connected decision-making across retail functions.
Invent.ai addresses this challenge through its AI decisioning platform, which connects merchandising, inventory and pricing decisions into a unified execution flow. By continuously processing signals from demand, inventory and store performance, the platform enables retailers to respond to change as it happens, reducing friction between insight and action and improving operational responsiveness.
“Retailers don’t need more dashboards or retrospective analysis. They need faster, more reliable execution,” said Gurhan Kok, Founder and CEO of invent.ai. “This recognition reinforces a clear market shift: value is moving from analytics to coordinated action. The advantage now comes from systems that can interpret change and align retail decisions in real time.”
The report also highlights pressure points such as inventory accuracy, out-of-stock reduction and operational efficiency, areas that depend on tightly connected decision-making across traditionally siloed functions. Addressing these challenges requires more than standalone tools; it requires systems that coordinate decisions and keep execution aligned as conditions change.
Invent.ai is designed to support this continuous decision cycle: monitoring performance, detecting change, validating actions and executing within defined business guardrails. This helps reduce the disconnect between planning assumptions and in-market execution, enabling retailers to respond more effectively to shifting demand, inventory constraints and promotional activity.
Invent.ai continues to expand its platform capabilities to support enterprise retailers seeking to unify decision-making and execution through AI, helping teams move faster from understanding performance to acting.
To access the full report, visit: https://coresight.com/research/ai-for-productivity-in-retail/