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Foundation: empowering retailers with smarter decisions

Retail moves fast—your decisions should keep up. Invent.ai helps you act with precision and adapt to change across external and internal factors influencing your brand.

A platform built for retailers, by experts & academics of retail

In 2013, Gurhan Kok saw that retailers needed more than spreadsheets and static models to keep up with modern demand. A former professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with a PhD from Wharton, he recognized that better decision-making wasn’t about replacing people, although that’s a common belief. Instead, it was about amplifying their ability to act.

With a team of data scientists, AI engineers and retail strategists, invent.ai was built from the ground up to do what traditional systems couldn’t. Invent.ai analyzes data to connect insights across planning, inventory and pricing operations to create truly actionable insights.

The best part of our company foundation?

We don’t skimp on the small things. Our team walks hand-in-hand with you to make the most of your invent.ai superpowers, building out new capabilities and functions to best support your goals.

Powered by an agentic AI-based solution and our proprietary Hub Model support team, invent.ai empowers retailers with the most actionable and impactful recommendations. Everything we do is built around our core values, taking an unprecedented approach to giving our customers (you!) precisely what you need to succeed and achieve your growth goals.

Retail leaders need a system that adapts in real time, surfaces the best choices and gives them the power to execute with confidence.

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Who is Gurhan Kok?

Gurhan Kok holds a PhD from Wharton, served as a Duke Professor from 2003 to 2014, was an MIT Fellow at the Data Science Institute for 2021, and is the most cited researcher after 25+ years of research and development (R&D) in Retail Forecasting, Inventory Optimization and Assortment Optimization.

Top achievements include:

  • R&D Pioneer of the Year - 2009
  • Best Paper in Management Science - 2021
  • Selected to Editorial Board of Management Science
  • Selected to Editorial Board of Operations Research
  • Forbes Councils Contributor
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“Ten years ago, our AI-decisioning foundation set us apart as pioneers in the retail industry. Today, that same foundation is even stronger, and we are more focused than ever on guiding retailers toward success - reinventing retail planning with AI-solutions that help drive your retail decision-making for inventory, merchandising and pricing.”