Mastering the Total Cost to Serve.
Orchestrating the Future of Retail.

The Intelligent Overlay that transforms operational friction and resource conflict into autonomous profit protection.

Protect Your Margins. Drive Your Profits.

Sankyra protects margins and drives profits by mastering the complexity of modern retail operations. As an intelligent overlay to your existing tech stack, Sankyra detects, understands, and mitigates the hidden "profit killers" that traditional systems miss—from inventory distortion to labor inefficiency. We overcome the fragmentation of truth across data silos, providing a holistic view that prevents value leakage before it hits your bottom line.

The Business Challenge: The Crisis of Disconnected Operations

Modern retail stands at a critical juncture. While consumer interfaces are seamless, the operational backbone is fractured. Retailers face a $1.73 trillion "inventory distortion" problem, but the crisis goes deeper than stock levels.

It is a crisis of Operational Friction. Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Store Operations function as autonomous fiefdoms with conflicting goals. Store associates are caught in a "functional conflict," forced to choose between serving walk-in customers and fulfilling digital orders. Valuable labor is wasted on "double-handling"—unboxing and shelving items only to pick them hours later for a shipment. Meanwhile, external factors like localized weather, traffic patterns, and events create "demand shifts" that legacy systems fail to correlate. Without a unified, context-aware view, retailers are "flying blind," reactive to chaos rather than orchestrating profit.

Example Use Cases

True "Cost-to-Serve" & Labor Complexity

The Challenge: Finance teams see gross margins but miss the "Cost of Chaos." This includes the hidden labor cost of unboxing and shelving items just to take them off the shelf for online fulfillment, or the inefficiency of packing orders during peak walk-in hours.

The Sankyra Optimization: We integrate data across Systems and Store Ops to calculate the "Net Margin Contribution" that accounts for labor touch-points. Sankyra identifies items with high "complexity costs" and helps re-align workflows—ensuring labor is utilized for packing during lulls and for customer service during peaks.

Intelligent Order Orchestration

The Challenge: Simplistic logic often triggers "split shipments" or "phantom stockouts." An item might be picked for an online order just seconds before a walk-in customer reaches for it, resulting in a lost high-intent sale and an inefficient fulfillment path.

The Sankyra Optimization: Sankyra’s Confidence-Based Routing evaluates not just inventory levels, but the "Opportunity Cost" of a sale. It intelligently holds or reroutes orders based on real-time store traffic and stock velocity, protecting the walk-in experience while ensuring the most profitable fulfillment route for the digital consumer.

The Context-Aware Digital Twin

The Challenge: External factors are often treated as "noise" rather than "signals." A dip in sales or a fulfillment delay is often blamed on internal failure when it was actually a predictable result of a local event, weather pattern, or traffic congestion.

The Sankyra Optimization: Sankyra incorporates External Contextual Features into its "World Model." By correlating sales dips or logistics friction with weather, local traffic, and events, the platform provides diagnostic clarity. This allows retailers to adjust safety stock and labor shifts proactively, transforming "unforeseen circumstances" into planned operational adjustments.

How It Works

INTEGRATE

We break the "Integration Barrier" by using Generative AI to autonomously discover schemas in legacy systems and synthesize real-time connectors. This eliminates manual ETL pipelines and establishes a typed, object-centric digital twin in days, not months—featuring self-healing logic that automatically adapts to schema drift in your source systems.

PREDICT

Our engine uses Cascade Modeling to trace the ripple effect of friction. We quantify the total cost of a decision—factoring in labor hours, shipping waste, and the opportunity cost of lost in-store sales.

ACT

Sankyra moves you from reactive firefighting to proactive prevention. Our AI Agents execute pre-approved, governed actions—such as shifting fulfillment tasks to off-peak hours or rerouting orders to avoid traffic-impacted nodes—all within human-approved guardrails.

Our Technology

Sankyra is not another point solution; it is a transformative architectural shift for the modern enterprise. Built for the Office of the CIO and CTO, Sankyra provides a non-invasive intelligence layer that identifies, quantifies, and mitigates business risks as they surface across organizational processes.

1 / Non-Invasive Architecture

Sankyra sits above your existing systems. We don’t "rip and replace" legacy ERPs or OMS; we orchestrate them. This ensures rapid time-to-value without the risk of disrupting core transactional stability.

2 / Object-Centric Fidelity

Traditional systems are case-centric and flat. Sankyra uses a graph-based, object-centric model that preserves the complex many-to-many relationships of retail (Orders-to-Shipments-to-Items), providing 100% fidelity for root-cause analysis.

3 / AI-Driven Synthesis & Self-Healing

Our AI Transformation Core autonomously synthesizes data connectors, adapting to schema drift in real-time. This reduces manual data engineering by 70%, allowing IT teams to focus on strategy rather than maintenance.

4 / Deterministic Governance

We solve the "Black Box" problem of Agentic AI. While we use LLMs for strategy synthesis, our execution is governed by deterministic guardrails and stateful workflows, ensuring every automated action is auditable, explainable, and safe.

Who We Are

Behind Sankyra stands a team of seasoned retail and technology executives with a proven track record of scaling global operations. Our founders and advisors have held senior leadership roles at Amazon, Best Buy, Guitar Center, Microsoft, and SAP, bringing a unique blend of deep retail domain expertise and world-class AI & cloud engineering to solve the most complex challenges in modern commerce.

Mastering the Total Cost to Serve. Orchestrating the Future of Retail.