
April 16, 2026
What if your merchandising team could effortlessly evaluate category growth scenarios and optimize pricing, assortment, and inventory allocations?
In this demo, Rhiannon Toole shows how o9's AI-powered platform revolutionizes retail merchandise planning. She showcases how agentic AI capabilities can transform the traditionally manual, time-intensive process of merchandise financial planning into an automated, intelligent system - by conducting postgame analysis on retail performance, identifying trends, and generating forward-looking forecasts.
The key value proposition is transforming planners from spending 80% of time on routine analysis to focusing on strategic work, enabling faster, data-driven decision making in volatile retail markets.











