Headless Retail

Based on the discussions around the NRF – The Retail Big Show in Singapore this latest blog describes the future of Retail being Headless Retail and links also my two earlier blog posts to give the reader a cohesive and comprehensive view across technology, humans and the resulting user (UX) or better AI Agent Experience (AAX).

Based on the conversations during NRF and dedicated Retail dinners with startups and partners this is not a comprehensive list – there are more things coming, but Headless Retail is right in the center of it.

https://medium.com/@andreas.spanner/headless-retail-when-your-store-has-no-storefront-only-an-api-and-a-point-of-view-8e4b92564a77

Omni-Channel is so Yesterday – Check out Agentic Retail

In this demo and associated blog post, I show how agentic Retail will change our shopping experience.

It covers things like:

  • Autonomous negotiations and purchasing
  • Comparing different shop and buyers agents’ performance
  • Have you agent rendering product choices the way you like it best
  • An evaluation that tests all permutations of shop and buyers agent, allowing to compare performances across:
    • Store negotiation strategies eg relationship, competitive or premium
    • Buyers personalities
    • Buyers profiles
    • Floor price
    • Stock levels
    • Margin pressures
    • and more technical things like context engineering, RAG, time-to-first-token (TTFT), etc.

All experiments are tracked via MLFlow.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-omni-channel-autonomous-retail-agent-negotiation-loops-spanner-sxyhc/

Please reach out and let me know what you think! Your feedback is a much appreciated gift.

Consolidated Telemetry for AIOps

In this blog post I cover the current open source available storage backends for data ingestion and retrieval to support organisations toward AIOps for inference and training across anomaly detection, signal correlation, root-cause analysis and remediation as part of a codified bechmark harness under LFEdge/InfiniEdgeAI/AIOps: https://github.com/lfedgeai/AIOps

https://medium.com/@andreas.spanner/the-convergence-of-telemetry-and-ai-unified-storage-backends-for-aiops-cafa89bea2de

I am examing data ingestion performance

and data query performance:

Geospatial use cases with Prithvi AI Models

In this post I showcase in collaboration with Michael Cawte (Principal at Section6) how to utilize geospatial AI capabilities based on the Granite Prithvi Model family.

Use cases based on IBM use cases are:

  • Flood Prediction
  • Earth Surface temperature prediction
  • Canopy height prediction

https://medium.com/@andreas.spanner/geospatial-granite-models-on-openshift-4119e7c1b04d

All this is deployed on Red Hat OpenShift and was developed as a demo for a Fire & Emergency department.