42 GTM brain

42 sells managed data warehousing and retail analytics to omnichannel brands and retailers.

category

Omnichannel retail analytics

market profile

  • text: Retailers need consistent sales, margin and inventory definitions across ecommerce, stores, wholesale, ERP and finance.
  • text: 42 provides multichannel data to support sales and margin decisions, according to a retail industry association.

personas

  • title: VP merchandising and planning
    pains:
    • Buyers and allocators need sell-through and inventory by style and location before buying meetings.
    • Spreadsheet reports delay markdown and replenishment decisions.
  • title: Retail or ecommerce director
    pains:
    • Store and online channel figures do not reconcile.
    • Managers struggle to identify stockouts and local sales trends.
  • title: Retail data or IT leader
    pains:
    • Maintaining feeds from POS, ecommerce and wholesale consumes scarce engineering time.
    • Different metric definitions reduce trust in reports and AI answers.

icp

  • text: Fashion and lifestyle brands selling online and in stores, often with wholesale or marketplaces, are a core segment.
  • text: The entry plan targets Shopify ecommerce and POS merchants with up to 10,000 monthly orders and 10 users; higher plans serve larger multichannel teams.
  • text: Brand groups and retailers needing sell-in and sell-through analysis are a further fit.

message pillars

  • text: Make retail data usable for both people and AI.
  • text: Unify data sources into trusted numbers.
  • text: Turn reporting into inventory and margin decisions.

objections

  • objection: We already have a data warehouse and BI tool.
    response: Compare the managed retail data model and pipeline upkeep against the reporting and definition gaps that remain.
  • objection: Our systems and definitions are too customized to integrate.
    response: Scope actual sources and custom metrics with the team; higher plans describe managed ETL and custom rules.
  • objection: Our merchants will not adopt another analytics tool.
    response: Pilot their common reports and evaluate training and report-building support.

competitors

  • name: Omnilytics
    why: Retail analytics provider listed alongside 42 in a retail analytics directory.
  • name: intely
    why: Provides business intelligence for retail and wholesale, overlapping with 42's reporting use cases.

keywords

  • omnichannel retail analytics
  • retail inventory reporting
  • Shopify retail dashboard
  • wholesale sell through reporting
  • retail data warehouse
  • merchandise planning analytics
  • retail semantic layer

voice

  • Retail-native and practical
  • Conversational and confident
  • Focused on actionable insights

signals

  • text: A Shopify brand is adding stores or wholesale and must consolidate channel data.
  • text: Merchandising and finance are reconciling conflicting sales and inventory figures.
  • text: A retailer is trying AI analysis without consistent retail metric definitions.

stack

  • Shopify
  • Shopify POS
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Ads
  • Meta Ads
  • MCP

pricing

model: flat
starting price: $1,000 per month

motion

sales_led

channels

  • SEO
  • partners
  • customer stories

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Nick Porter
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: https://github.com/surjikal

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