Agents · Supervised digital workforce

Retail & Consumer agent squads, by domain.

Agents that do the routine work across a consumer business — scoring brand and regulatory signals, reconciling secondary sales and GST, validating distributor claims, writing store briefings, keeping listings right on every app — on the governed data fabric. Policy decides what goes straight through; a named person approves everything else, and no price, claim, refund or customer message is decided by an agent alone.

8
Squads, one per value-chain domain
26
Agent roles designed
23
Need a person to approve every case
3
Act alone only inside policy limits
LEVEL 0ObserveMonitors and reports; takes no action.
LEVEL 1SuggestDrafts a recommendation; a person does the work.
LEVEL 2Act with approvalPrepares the full action; a person approves every case.
LEVEL 3Act within limitsActs on its own inside policy limits; everything else is escalated.
LEVEL 4AutonomousActs end to end; people review samples after the fact.

These are agent designs from our AI & Agentic Engineering practice, mapped to the retail and consumer value chain in India — FMCG makers, retail chains, D2C and quick commerce, food service and travel retail. Agents linked to an accelerator mirror platforms we have built; the live agent demo runs on banking sample data under the same controls.

Squad 1 of 8

Brand, category & consumer insight

Brand and category teams see what India is saying about their brands — in English and Indian languages — joined to the sales it could move.

Brand Signal Scorer
L0 · Observe

Ingests news and social mentions in English and Hindi (extensible to Tamil, Telugu and more) and scores each for sentiment, brand, region, impact and a one-line "so what".

Owner
Brand manager
Tools
News feedsSocial listeningLLM enrichment
Guardrails
Observes and scores only; falls back to keyword rules if the model is unavailable; never posts or replies.
Moves
Time from signal to brand action
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Regulatory Radar
L0 · Observe

Watches for packaging, labelling, health-claim and food-safety developments and flags the SKUs and states they touch.

Owner
Regulatory affairs lead
Tools
Regulator noticesNews feedsSKU master
Guardrails
Alerts only; interpretation and compliance decisions stay with regulatory and legal.
Moves
Regulatory surprises
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Category Insight Analyst
L1 · Suggest

Explains share, distribution and price movements by state and channel from audits, panels and internal sales, and drafts the monthly category review.

Owner
Category head
Tools
Retail auditsConsumer panelsSecondary sales
Guardrails
Drafts only; every number links to its source; category head signs off.
Moves
Category review preparation time
Squad 2 of 8

Demand planning, sourcing & supply

Planners get a demand view that includes the monsoon, the festive calendar and the market — and scenarios that are backtested before anyone trusts them.

Demand Sensing Agent
L1 · Suggest

Updates the short-term forecast by SKU, depot and state from secondary sales, weather, festivals and market signals.

Owner
Demand planning manager
Tools
ERP ordersDMS secondary salesWeather & festive calendar
Guardrails
Suggests forecast changes; the planner approves before anything reaches supply planning.
Moves
Forecast accuracy
Twin Scenario Runner
L1 · Suggest

Runs what-if shocks on the demand–supply twin — a price change, a plant outage, a monsoon delay — and backtests the model against the past before showing results.

Owner
Head of supply chain
Tools
Demand–supply twinCausal graphSales history
Guardrails
Shows backtest error with every scenario; never changes a plan.
Moves
Decisions made with a tested scenario
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Replenishment Planner
L2 · Act with approval

Proposes depot and stockist replenishment within agreed stock norms and flags stock-out risks before the season.

Owner
Supply planner
Tools
ERP inventoryDepot & CFA stockTransport plans
Guardrails
Every replenishment proposal waits for planner approval; no orders are released by the agent.
Moves
Stock-outs at stockists
Squad 3 of 8

Distribution: general trade, modern trade & kirana

Sales teams see past the distributor — secondary sales, outlet gaps and claims — without waiting for month-end files.

Secondary Sales Reconciler
L3 · Act within limits

Normalises distributor DMS feeds and reconciles primary, secondary and tertiary sales within tolerance, explaining every break.

Owner
Sales operations manager
Tools
DMS feedsERP billingModern-trade sell-out
Guardrails
Acts only within agreed tolerances; anything outside goes to a named analyst.
Moves
Secondary-sales visibility
Distributor Health Scorer
L0 · Observe

Scores each distributor on stock, ageing, fill rate, claims and credit, and flags the ones slipping.

Owner
Area sales manager
Tools
DMSCredit & receivablesClaims history
Guardrails
Observes and ranks only; distributor actions stay with sales leadership.
Moves
Distributor-driven stock-outs
Beat Plan Advisor
L1 · Suggest

Recommends next-best SKUs and beat changes for each salesperson from outlet history and gaps.

Owner
Regional sales manager
Tools
SFAOutlet censusSecondary sales
Guardrails
Suggests only; reps and managers decide the beat.
Moves
Lines per call
Distributor Claim Validator
L2 · Act with approval

Matches each scheme claim to the scheme terms, the secondary sales behind it and the GST invoices, prices any mismatch and drafts the query.

Owner
Area sales manager
Tools
Scheme masterDMSGST e-invoices
Guardrails
Never approves or rejects a claim; drafts for a manager to decide.
Moves
Claim cycle time
Squad 4 of 8

Stores, omnichannel & travel retail

Store, outlet and kitchen managers get a short, ranked briefing — what changed, why, and what to do — instead of thousands of alerts.

Store Insight Writer
L1 · Suggest

Writes the daily store and region briefing from POS, footfall and the retail calendar, ranking the few changes that matter.

Owner
Area manager
Tools
POSFootfallRetail calendar
Guardrails
Drafts only; filters alerts to the meaningful ones; managers decide the action.
Moves
Alerts acted on
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Outlet Health Monitor
L0 · Observe

Scores outlet health and revenue leakage for travel-retail and lounge outlets against flight-driven demand and partner contracts.

Owner
Outlet operations head
Tools
Outlet P&LAirport footfall & departure demandPartner contracts
Guardrails
Observes and alerts only.
Moves
Outlet health score
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Food Cost & Wastage Watcher
L0 · Observe

Tracks food cost, wastage and item-level profitability by kitchen and outlet and flags where they drift.

Owner
Kitchen & F&B controller
Tools
InventoryProcurementPOS
Guardrails
Observes and alerts only; menu and purchasing decisions stay with F&B managers.
Moves
Food wastage
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Squad 5 of 8

D2C, marketplaces & quick commerce

E-commerce teams keep every SKU listed, priced and in stock across apps, marketplaces, ONDC and dark stores.

Availability Tracker
L0 · Observe

Tracks availability and share of shelf by SKU, city and platform, including quick-commerce dark stores.

Owner
E-commerce manager
Tools
Platform reportsDark-store availabilitySKU master
Guardrails
Observes and alerts only.
Moves
On-shelf availability by city
Listing Content Agent
L2 · Act with approval

Enriches product content from the PIM and drafts platform-specific listings and fixes.

Owner
Content & catalogue lead
Tools
PIM / DAMPlatform listing specs
Guardrails
Every listing change is approved before syndication; labelling claims checked against the master.
Moves
Content compliance
Review & Return Classifier
L1 · Suggest

Classifies reviews and return reasons in multiple languages and routes product or packaging issues to the owner.

Owner
Product quality manager
Tools
Ratings & reviewsReturns data
Guardrails
Suggests routing; never replies to customers publicly.
Moves
Return rate
Squad 6 of 8

Pricing, promotions & trade spend

Revenue managers get the evidence behind every scheme and price move before it is repeated.

Promotion Evaluator
L1 · Suggest

Post-evaluates each promotion for lift, cannibalisation and ROI by state and channel.

Owner
Head of revenue growth management
Tools
Promotion calendarSecondary salesTrade-spend ledger
Guardrails
Drafts evaluations; RGM decides what to repeat.
Moves
Trade-spend ROI
Scheme Leakage Detector
L0 · Observe

Finds scheme and price leakage across claims, invoices and price lists and quantifies it in rupees.

Owner
Commercial finance manager
Tools
Scheme masterClaimsPrice lists
Guardrails
Observes and quantifies only; recoveries are decided by finance.
Moves
Scheme leakage recovered
Price-Pack Scenario Agent
L1 · Suggest

Models price-pack architecture options — grammage, MRP points, packs — by state and channel when input costs move.

Owner
Category & pricing head
Tools
Cost sheetsPrice elasticityCompetitor prices
Guardrails
Suggests scenarios only; MRP and pack changes need management approval and labelling checks.
Moves
Price realisation
Squad 7 of 8

Customer, loyalty & service

Marketing and service teams act on one consented customer view, in the customer's own language.

Next-Best-Offer Agent
L1 · Suggest

Recommends the next offer for loyalty members and app users from purchase history, with DPDP consent and purpose checked first.

Owner
CRM manager
Tools
Loyalty & CRMApp behaviourConsent records
Guardrails
No offer is sent without valid consent; campaigns are approved by marketing.
Moves
Repeat purchase rate
Multilingual Service Agent
L2 · Act with approval

Classifies service requests from WhatsApp, email and calls in Indian languages and drafts replies.

Owner
Customer service lead
Tools
Contact centreWhatsAppOrder data
Guardrails
Every reply is approved by an agent; refunds and goodwill stay with people.
Moves
First-contact resolution
Consent Guardian
L3 · Act within limits

Checks every campaign audience against recorded consent and purpose and blocks non-compliant records.

Owner
Data protection officer
Tools
Consent recordsCampaign lists
Guardrails
Acts only to exclude records that fail consent checks; never adds anyone to a list.
Moves
Consent coverage
Squad 8 of 8

Finance, GST & compliance

Controllers close faster, with GST, settlements and trade-spend accruals reconciled and every revenue lens labelled.

GST Reconciler
L3 · Act within limits

Reconciles GST input credit, e-invoices and e-way bills against the books and suppliers' filings within tolerance, explaining every break.

Owner
Indirect tax manager
Tools
GST returnsE-invoicesGL
Guardrails
Matches only within tolerance; no return is filed and no credit is reversed by the agent.
Moves
GST input-credit mismatches
Settlement Matcher
L2 · Act with approval

Matches marketplace, quick-commerce and distributor settlements to orders, fees and invoices.

Owner
Accounts receivable lead
Tools
Platform settlementsERP billingBank statements
Guardrails
Proposes matches; write-offs and adjustments are approved by finance.
Moves
Unreconciled settlements
Invoice Matching Agent
L2 · Act with approval

Extracts vendor invoices from PDFs and scans and matches them to purchase orders and vendor statements, explaining each exception.

Owner
Accounts payable lead
Tools
Invoice documentsPO reportVendor statements
Guardrails
Never posts or pays an invoice; exceptions go to AP.
Moves
Invoices matched first time
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Finance 360 Assistant
L1 · Suggest

Answers P&L questions in plain language with guarded text-to-SQL over the finance fact table and drafts the monthly commentary.

Owner
Financial controller
Tools
P&L fact tableSemantic layer
Guardrails
Read-only queries; shows the SQL behind every answer; commentary is signed off by the controller.
Moves
P&L compilation time
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Every agent supervised, every step logged

Policy decides what goes straight through; people approve everything else; a kill switch halts all agents. The live demo runs on banking sample data — the same controls apply to every Retail & Consumer squad.