Can a small brick-and-mortar business use custom AI?

Absolutely. We build right-sized systems, loyalty automation, a storefront AI assistant, customer data, and clean dashboards, without enterprise overhead.

Can you unify my customer data across tools?

Yes. We build a lightweight customer-data layer that connects POS, email, and social into one profile per customer.

Can AI answer customer questions on my website?

Yes. A storefront and website AI assistant answers product, availability, and hours questions and captures leads after hours.

How much does retail automation cost?

It depends on scope. A loyalty-and-assistant automation is smaller; a unified customer-data platform is larger. We scope it clearly on a call.

Will it integrate with my POS?

Yes. We integrate with common retail POS and ecommerce platforms, or connect them through a custom layer.

Brick & Mortar

AI Services for Retail & Local Business

AI software for retail and local brick-and-mortar businesses, customer data, loyalty automation, storefront AI assistants, and dashboards.

Local retailers compete against ecommerce giants with one advantage the giants cannot copy: a real relationship with their customers. Grid Theory builds right-sized AI software for retail and local businesses that unifies customer data into a lightweight CDP, automates loyalty and win-back, and adds a storefront and website AI assistant, all without enterprise overhead. Clean dashboards turn sales and inventory signals into decisions you can act on the same day.

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What we build for Retail & Local Business

Unified customer-data brain (lightweight CDP)

Storefront and website AI assistant

Loyalty and promotion automation

Win-back campaigns for lapsed customers

Sales and inventory-signal dashboards

Reputation autopilot

Common problems we solve in retail & local business

The bottlenecks that quietly cost retail & local business businesses time and revenue, and the systems we build to fix them.

Customer data is scattered across POS, email, and social

A lightweight customer-data brain unifies every interaction into one profile you can act on.

Loyalty and promotions are run manually and inconsistently

Loyalty and promotion automation rewards repeat customers and times offers automatically.

Lapsed customers are never re-engaged

Win-back campaigns detect inactivity and pull customers back with targeted offers.

Online questions go unanswered after hours

A storefront and website AI assistant answers product and hours questions around the clock.

Sales and inventory signals are hard to read

Clean dashboards turn POS and inventory data into clear daily decisions.

Compliance & security

Built to work within retail & local business regulations

We build private, high-control systems on infrastructure you own, so your data stays yours and your AI stays inside the rules you already operate under. We engineer to support your obligations; final compliance is validated with your team and counsel.

TCPA & CAN-SPAM (marketing)

SMS and email campaigns are built with consent capture, opt-out, and CAN-SPAM handling, so your marketing is engineered to stay within the TCPA and CAN-SPAM rules.

PCI DSS & CCPA

Payments run through PCI-compliant processors (no card data on your servers), and customer-data workflows support CCPA access and deletion requests, on infrastructure you own.

How we keep your data safe·See our privacy policy and terms.