Your AI answers customers on WhatsApp. You watch it work.
It handles the routine questions, drafts the reorder before a shelf empties, and reads the week's sales so you know what's moving. Self-hosted Odoo means no per-transaction or per-seat tax on any of it.
What your AI would do in Retail.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
01
Watches stock levels across stores and drafts the reorder before a shelf goes empty.
02
Answers common customer questions on WhatsApp and hands off to a person only for the ones that need judgement.
03
Reads the week's sales and tells you which lines are moving and which are dead weight.
04
Flags a supplier's delivery running late against a promised restock date before the shelf actually runs out.
38%.
Excess stock as a share of small and mid-size businesses' inventory (all industries, worldwide)
What your AI does about it:
It watches stock levels across your stores and drafts the reorder before a shelf goes empty, for you to approve.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 137K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common retail tools
R 123K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The retail stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical retail firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Retail stack
8 tools · R 137K/yr in licences
Replace
Salesforce
CRM · R 49K per year
With
SuiteCRM
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 45K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 137K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 14K
Annual savings
R 123K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where retail time and money leak
What we hear on every retail discovery call.
Staff time on questions the AI can answer
Where's my order, is this in stock, what are your hours: the same questions, answered by a person, all day. An AI takes the routine ones and hands off the rest.
Per-transaction and per-seat SaaS fees
POS, inventory, loyalty and e-commerce platforms all charge by volume. Self-hosted Odoo Retail or Dolibarr removes the volume tax entirely.
Data locked in vendor silos
Customer history and loyalty points sit in a format the vendor controls. Open source keeps it in a format you can move whenever you want.
How we handle the retail edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI ever take payment or make promises it can't keep?
No. It answers, checks stock and confirms holds. Anything involving money or a refund goes to a person.
Can it run across more than one store?
Yes, it checks stock across every branch you connect it to before answering a customer.
What happens to our loyalty and customer data if we leave Shopify or Mailchimp?
We export it into open formats first, so nothing is trapped when you move.
Is WhatsApp business messaging POPIA-compliant this way?
We configure retention and consent the same way we do for any channel that touches customer data.