Agent Team 01 · Merchant Analytics

The analytical spine of
modern merchandising.

Merchant Analytics is the Intelo Agent Team that gives every other team the truth. Demand forecasts. Size curves. Assortment performance. Newness trajectory. Lost sales. All continuous, all reconciled, all operational.

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01 · Definition

What Merchant Analytics does.

Merchant Analytics is a cohesive network of specialized AI agents that collaboratively own the analytical foundation of your merchandising organization. It forecasts demand at SKU-store-week granularity, diagnoses assortment health, recommends size curves, predicts newness performance, and surfaces lost sales your team would otherwise miss.

02 · Agents in this team

Five specialized agents. One shared context.

  • AGENT 01

    Demand Forecasting

    Produces SKU-store-week demand forecasts continuously, not quarterly. Blends historicals, seasonality, pricing, weather, and macro signals. Reconciles automatically when the plan changes upstream or execution drifts downstream.

  • AGENT 02

    Assortment Performance

    Diagnoses why an assortment is winning or losing — by style, class, cluster, and channel. Identifies heroes, cannibalizers, and deadweight in near real time so buyers can reallocate attention, not just inventory.

  • AGENT 03

    Size Optimization

    Builds size curves that respect cluster-level fit behavior, not network averages. Catches oversold sizes before they become lost sales and undersold sizes before they become markdowns.

  • AGENT 04

    Newness Forecasting

    Predicts performance for new products with limited or no history using similar-item modeling, attribute embeddings, and early-read signals. Gives buyers conviction faster on what to reorder, what to kill, and what to scale.

  • AGENT 05

    Lost Sales

    Quantifies demand that never showed up in your POS — stockouts, size breaks, off-planogram events, and substitution losses. Converts invisible revenue into visible, actionable recovery.

03 · Why it matters

Most retail analytics stops at the dashboard. Ours starts there.

Merchant Analytics doesn't just tell you what happened. It feeds every other Intelo team — MFP, Assortment, In-Season, and Pricing — with the forecasts and diagnostics they need to make better decisions, automatically.

CONTINUOUS

Always-on forecasting.

Forecasts refresh as data lands — not weekly, not quarterly. The rest of your stack sees the same truth you do.

GRANULAR

SKU-store-week, at scale.

Built to run at the full combinatorial grain of an enterprise retailer — without falling back to rollups.

RECONCILED

One number, end to end.

Plan, allocation, and pricing all see the same forecast. No version wars. No reconciliation meetings.

Start with the analytical layer.

Most Intelo customers land with Merchant Analytics or MFP — the two foundations everything else builds on.

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