Building AI into your Business

Deliver real business impact with AI. STRATAGEMS helps retailers identify, implement and scale practical AI solutions that reduce cost and drive performance

AI is reshaping retail enabling sharper decisions, leaner operations and more personalised customer experiences. For retailers, it offers a chance to outpace competitors and reduce operating costs, but only if adopted with clear purpose and the right foundations.

At STRATAGEMS, we help you unlock the real value of AI without disrupting your teams. Our approach is hands-on and outcome-driven: we identify opportunities, design practical solutions, and build them with minimal internal overhead. Whether it’s automating repetitive tasks, improving demand forecasting, inventory forecasting, supply chain optimisation, personalising marketing, returns processing or enhancing customer service, we focus on measurable improvements that drive both efficiency and growth.

What We Do ?

We help retailers turn AI into a tool for operational efficiency, cost control and long-term competitiveness. Whether you're exploring your first AI use case or trying to scale what’s already in motion, STRATAGEMS brings structure, clarity and hands-on delivery to every stage of the journey.

‍Opportunity identification: We assess where AI can reduce cost, increase efficiency or streamline operations across your business from forecasting and staffing to fulfilment and returns.
‍Rapid value discovery: We run focused assessments to uncover realistic use cases based on your data, systems and goals. These are prioritised by impact, ease of implementation and cost savings.
‍Solution design and prototyping: We design lightweight, business-ready prototypes that demonstrate the potential of AI from predictive models to intelligent workflows and automation triggers.
‍Architecture and integration planning: We ensure solutions fit your existing systems and data pipelines. That means low-friction deployment, secure access to key datasets and long-term sustainability.
‍Build and deploy: We don’t stop at slides and strategy. We deliver working solutions built to production standards and tested in real-world conditions that your teams can trust.
‍Support and scale: Once in use, we monitor, tune and scale AI initiatives based on performance. We also help embed practices to ensure sustainable adoption without constant external reliance.

Process Overview

We focus on delivering early wins that prove the value of AI without overloading your internal teams or committing to long, uncertain programmes. Our process is designed to identify high-impact opportunities, ensure your data and systems are ready, and scale adoption at a sustainable pace.

‍Initial discovery and value scan: We start with a short, structured engagement to understand your operations, challenges and commercial goals. We identify low-effort, high-impact opportunities where AI can quickly demonstrate value typically through cost savings, efficiency gains or automation of repetitive tasks.‍
Data and systems readiness check: We assess the accessibility, structure and quality of your data, and evaluate your systems architecture to determine where AI can be integrated easily and where foundational improvements may be needed.‍
Prioritisation and roadmap: We build a clear, ranked list of AI opportunities based on effort, risk and expected return balancing quick wins with longer-term strategic initiatives. This gives you control, clarity and flexibility.‍
Prototype and deploy initial use cases:
We design and deliver pilot solutions that prove value fast. Whether it's a forecasting model, pricing optimiser or intelligent automation, we aim to deliver something tangible early building trust and momentum.‍
Operational integration: Once proven, we ensure AI solutions are embedded into daily workflows, with the right user interfaces, triggers, alerts or automation steps‍
Expand and scale: With foundations in place, we help you build out your AI capability across other functions from merchandising and logistics to customer service and fraud prevention and help turn your business into an AI-first business.

Why Choose Us ?

Adopting AI isn’t just a technical shift, rather it’s a strategic move that can reshape how your retail business operates. At STRATAGEMS, we help you apply AI with purpose, confidence and measurable impact.

Aligned incentives: We're invested in your success. Where appropriate, we structure our commercial model around shared outcomes so you only pay more when we help you deliver more.
‍Retail-focused, outcome-driven: We understand the mechanics of retail and how to apply AI in ways that improve efficiency, control cost and sharpen decision-making across forecasting, staffing, supply chain and more.
‍Built on 25+ years of delivery experience: Our team has delivered enterprise-scale retail technology long before AI was a trend. We know what it takes to integrate new capabilities into real businesses, not just proofs of concept.
‍Agentic by design: As The Home of Agentic Retail™, we believe AI should act on your behalf anticipating needs, automating decisions, and enabling your teams to focus on what matters. We don’t bolt AI on we build ecosystems around it.
‍Practical, not theoretical: We deploy solutions that work with your data, integrate with your systems, and improve performance without adding risk or pressure to your internal teams.
Trusted by IT and commercial teams alike: We bridge the gap between business and technology. Our work earns buy-in across technical, operational and leadership stakeholders because we speak their language and back it with delivery.
Fast, focused engagements: We move quickly to identify and prove value. Our lightweight discovery-to-delivery model avoids lengthy consulting cycles and delivers visible results without unnecessary overhead.

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