Realis AI Value Accelerator for Retail

Your merchandising, marketing, supply chain, and store teams are already using AI. The question is how much of it is showing up in margin and service, and what is holding the rest back.

Merchants draft assortment and vendor communications in Copilot, marketing builds personalized content in ChatGPT, supply chain and store operations analysts work through data in Claude and Gemini, care teams lean on AI in the contact center. What leadership usually cannot say is where that adoption is moving conversion, margin, and labor productivity, where it is simply activity, and where customer data, pricing strategy, or vendor terms is moving through tools nobody inventoried. The wins that do exist stay stuck in one banner or one category.

The AI Value Accelerator scores your organization across six dimensions and hands you a prioritized path to capture more value, with the exposure that would undercut it accounted for. Fixed scope, 1.5 days, scored posture in hand by the end of the week, well ahead of your next peak.

What you get

• AI Readiness Scorecard - The hero deliverable. Scored red/yellow/green across six dimensions: value capture, usage, workforce, policy, data exposure, and vendor risk. A one-page posture you can put in front of a board, a brand partner, an insurer, or an investor.
• Priority Action Brief - Your top three to five moves ranked by value gained per unit of effort, sized for the current season rather than the next fiscal year, with owner suggestions and effort estimates.
• AI Usage Map - A visual of which tools merchandising, marketing, supply chain, store operations, and customer care are actually using, where they are driving real value, what customer and vendor data flows through them, and where the exposure points are.
• Path Forward Brief - An honest one-page read on where you stand, where the next increment of value is, and what makes sense next: an engagement, something you handle in-house, or you are on track and here is what to maintain.

How it works

I. Pre-Engagement Questionnaire - Completed asynchronously before the engagement day, so principal time goes to evaluation rather than information gathering. Interviews are scheduled with three to five stakeholders.

II. Discovery and Interviews - A full day: three to five structured stakeholder interviews of 30 minutes each, tool and usage inventory analysis, and identification of your top exposure points, following a codified framework rather than free-form conversation.

III. Scoring and Evaluation - Each of the six dimensions is scored red/yellow/green against a proprietary rubric. The Usage Map is drafted and exposures ranked.

IV. Reporting and Briefing - A half day to finalize all four deliverables, closing with a 30-minute delivery briefing with your leadership.

Who this is for

• CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, chief digital officers, and VPs of merchandising or store operations asked to show what AI is returning
• Retailers, grocers, and e-commerce organizations whose teams use AI daily with no view of the return and no policy or usage inventory behind it
• Organizations where AI upside in merchandising, marketing, and customer care is real and customer data raises the stakes
• Lean IT teams supporting stores and distribution, fielding AI demand they cannot evaluate or scale on their own
• Retailers answering AI questions from a board, a brand partner, an insurance carrier, or a private equity sponsor

Engagement details

• Format: Organization-wide AI value and readiness assessment
• Duration: 1.5 days, fixed scope
• Participants: Three to five stakeholders, 30 minutes each
• Scope: Advisory assessment of governance, tools, and data flows
• Follow-up: Full deliverable package plus a 30-minute briefing
• Next step: Contact Realis to confirm fit and scope. Professional services transact through a private offer.

What this does not include

• Policy writing, implementation, or a full governance roadmap. The assessment tells you whether you need one.
• Tool-by-tool vendor evaluation or development-process assessment
• Ongoing monitoring, retainer advisory, or adversarial testing

AWS products supported

• Amazon Bedrock
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
• Amazon Nova
• AWS Audit Manager
• AWS Well-Architected
• Kiro

About Realis Solutions Group

Realis is a senior-only advisory firm at the intersection of artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and enterprise risk. Our advisors have built governance frameworks that hold, across 72% of the Fortune 100 and dozens of public-sector organizations. Every engagement is principal-led by operators who have held the roles your team is navigating.