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Independent advisory

Capital-grade technology decisions for grocery operators.

We bring institutional rigor to the platform, sourcing, and program choices that determine whether a grocery operator's technology investments compound, or quietly erode margin.

What we do

01

Platform selection

Vendor-agnostic evaluation across POS, ERP, e-commerce, and merchandising. Selection criteria modeled to your unit economics, not to the integrator's incentives.

02

Sourcing & negotiation

Structured RFPs, contract teardown, and pricing benchmarks. We negotiate inside the deal, alongside your team, and document concessions worth defending in year three.

03

Program recovery

Stalled rollouts, broken integrations, and disputed scope. We diagnose the failure pattern, reset governance, and bring the program to a defensible end state.

How we work

Assess. Engage. Govern.

Our engagement model applies DAAEG™, our governed framework for treating technology like capital. Learn more.

01 Assess

We start with a structured diagnostic of the current technology estate, contracts, and the operating decisions they support. Short, scoped, and decision-oriented.

02 Engage

We run the market on your behalf: RFPs, vendor dialogue, demos, references, and commercial structuring. All documented against the criteria set in the assessment.

03 Govern

We stay through implementation as the independent voice in steering. Protecting scope, holding integrators to milestones, and translating issues into executive decisions.

Proof of outcomes

We do not publish client logos. We publish outcomes. References available on request.

Multi-brand consumer products

Integration reset, from a technical layer to a business capability

Disconnected systems and point-to-point integrations had made integration a business constraint. We repositioned integration as an enterprise capability, retired redundant tooling, and defined a future-state model aligned to operating outcomes.

Integration surface reduced by 75 percent

Multi-channel business

Order accuracy lifted by cutting manual handoffs

The order process depended on manual steps across disconnected systems, introducing errors and rework that reached customers. We prioritized the handoffs that drove the most error and defined the changes that would hold.

Manual touchpoints cut by 80 percent

Get in touch

Request a confidential assessment.

Tell us where the pressure is. A short note is enough. We respond personally within two business days, in confidence and with no obligation.