KWANTA.AI
The Service-as-Software company for retail.
We don't sell retailers a tool. We sell them the outcome NIQ and their agencies charge separately for, built into their point of sale.
Most retailers can't answer one question: are we actually profitable?
Planning blind
Inventory, pricing and promotions run on last period's sales and a guess at what moves next.
13 of hundreds
Our first pilot client pays ~$1,000/month for finance pros to analyze margins. That covers 13 brands. The rest of the portfolio has no analytics at all.
Margin leaks
Stockouts and overstock. Promotions that erode margin. Media spend with no link to what sold. Hours of manual work every season.
Why now
Agentic AI has crossed from experimental to operational. Capital is repricing around outcomes: for every $1 businesses spend on software, roughly $6 go to services (Sequoia, "Services: The New Software"). In retail, service spend on NIQ, agencies and consultants already dwarfs software.
A market with no NIQ
| TAM · global beauty + fashion | $2.4T+ |
|---|---|
| SAM · Central Asia + Europe | $550–600B |
| SOM · Central Asia beauty, 12–24 months | $2.4–3.7B |
| Kwanta wedge | Beauty and fashion retail in Central Asia, where panel-based intelligence breaks down |
Three layers. One data asset.
Core · SaaS
POS, inventory, CRM and margin visibility. Retailers enter their cost structure; Kwanta calculates true profitability. Cheap, fast to adopt, works with zero AI.
Intelligence · add-on
Demand forecasting, margin-aware pricing and promo, media attribution. Agents recommend. Owners approve.
Market Intelligence · API
Transaction-level data from every retailer on Kwanta aggregates into real-time category intelligence, sold via API to brands and manufacturers.
Sold before we fundraised.
Mir Kosmetiki, a multi-store cosmetics chain in Kazakhstan, bought Kwanta before formal fundraising began. Their core need: profitability visibility they did not have before Kwanta.
A pull signal, not a push sale.
Our first paid pilot.
Built by someone who sold this exact intelligence for a living.
15+ years in sales. 5 years as Senior Advanced Analytics Key Account Manager at NIQ (NielsenIQ). Sat on the other side of exactly the contract Kwanta is now building.
Leads AI architecture. 10+ years in software engineering, including work with Harvey AI and Perplexity.
Priced like the service it replaces
Core
$20–$100/moPOS, inventory, CRM, margin visibility. Flat monthly subscription, live in the MK pilot.
Intelligence
Value-basedAgentic forecasting, pricing, promo and media attribution. Pricing tested this round.
Market API
Category dataIntelligence for brands and manufacturers, after the coverage threshold.
Raising $250K · pre-seed.
What $250K funds
- Finish a production-ready MVP.
- Onboard 50+ retailers in the Central Asia beachhead.
- Validate Intelligence attach rate and pricing.
- Open first Market API conversations with brands.
Closing thesis
Kwanta doesn't give retailers a dashboard. It gives them a decision, ready to approve.