Retailers have spent the last decade building better dashboards, better forecasts, and better models. And yet most promotional decisions are still made the same way: a person reads a report, calls a meeting, waits for alignment, and acts days or weeks after the signal first appeared.
The problem is not the quality of the insight. It is the gap between the insight and the action. A new category of capability is closing that gap. Not by giving teams more information, but by giving them systems that can support their decisions, within defined boundaries, at the speed the market requires.