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Retail moves at lightning speed today. Shoppers demand full shelves, visible promotions, and easy-to-find products. It is overwhelming for brands and retailers to make it happen across thousands of stores. Checking stock, fixing displays, and monitoring promotions takes a painfully long, prohibitively expensive, and too often imprecise time. This is where Infilect Inc. comes to the rescue. The artificial intelligence and computer vision company brings vast amounts of real-time visibility to retailers and consumer goods companies about what's happening on their shelves.
Anand Subramanian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Infilect and the man behind the wheel of this redefining shift in how enterprises globally monitor and manage retail execution: Anand Subramanian: The Research-Driven Leader. Anand Subramanian co-founded Infilect in 2015. Before embarking on this journey, he had solid technological and research-related experience behind him.
With a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Anand worked in research organizations like Nokia Bell Labs and IBM Research. He possesses a profound knowledge of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision. However, the scientist did not want to keep his expertise inside the laboratories. He thought that visual intelligence could be commercially applied to industries like retail, requiring constant checking and action. Thus, this thought became the heart of Infilect Company.
The Mission of Infilect
Infilect's goal is straightforward, but the potential impact is enormous - fundamentally changing how retail is operated via visual intelligence. The company feels store data shouldn't take days or weeks to collect and analyze. Instead, storing photos made readily available with the same capabilities as real-time information can be transformed into instant, accurate insights, allowing brands to act upon them instantly.
The goal, they said, is to provide every retailer and consumer goods company with a similar capability to see what is happening on its shelves at all times. Infilect is the transparency tool that helps you do that work, whether verifying an out-of-stock, confirming a new promotion has been planned, or measuring and tracking competitor visibility.
What Infilect Offers
Infilect has developed a set of artificial intelligence and image recognition-powered products. These are the types of tools built to address some of the most pressing challenges to retail execution:
InfiViz
An AI powerhouse that scans in-store images for instant feedback on shelf data. It informs brands that products are on the shelves, promotions are implemented correctly, and planograms are adhered to. It removes the guesswork from retail audits with over 95% precision.
InfiEye and InfiArt
These tools take visual intelligence to analytics, merchandising efficiency and promo planning. They make sales teams and retail managers smarter every single day.
Through automation of retail audits, Infilect helps brands think about action over data.
Global Reach and Scale
Infilect, which was once a startup, is now a worldwide player. Its technology is now deployed in over 18 countries. The company processes 5 million store photos monthly and delivers intelligence for more than 400,000 retail stores globally.
That scale is evidence of how well the platform works. If your brand spans a single market or thousands of miles, Infilect gets you the same ease and flexibility.
Why Retailers Trust Infilect
There are many reasons why the world's top consumer goods brands and retailers choose Infilect:
Speed and Accuracy
Manual audits might take weeks, but Infilect provides insights instantly and precisely.
Comprehensive Metrics
Brands can now monitor share of shelf, promotional compliance, stock and pricing, while visual AI can help to follow even competitor activity.
Cost and Time Savings
Physical audits are minimized, so the business saves on travel time and other operational costs.
Sustainability
Fewer trips to the store are also better for the environment, lowering your carbon footprint.
Recognition and Awards
Infilect's technology has not gone unnoticed. It's now seen accolades from the biggest industry bodies and accelerators hanging on its walls. It's appeared in startup accelerators, won awards for deep learning innovation, and received praise from tech leaders worldwide. Those successes are as much a testament to its technology's quality as to its trust with customers.
How Infilect Works for Customers in the Real World
To make sense of the impact, picture how you would feel if a consumer goods company introduced a new promotional display in several thousand stores. For as long as anyone could remember, sales reps would visit each store, jot down notes and feed them back — often late and inaccurately.
With Infilect, it isn't so. Photos are captured at each store with basic mobile devices. The AI system then automatically checks the images as they come in, verifying whether the displays are correct and flagging problems. The sales team can then act on the spot to restock empty shelves, rectify incorrect displays, or fix the direction of promotions.
The result? Faster fixes, more impressive sales, more satisfied customers.
Anand's Leadership Philosophy
"Leaders like Anand Subramanian bring the best of both worlds–precision to a researcher and agility to an entrepreneur. His method hinges on a few fundamental principles:
- Innovation First
- Always pushing the envelope in what AI and computer vision can accomplish.
- Customer-Centric Thinking
- We create solutions that actually mitigate real pain points for brands and retailers.
- Sustainability
- Matching business growth with planet-friendly behaviors.
- Scalability
- Creating systems that function alike across markets, geographies and scales.
This combination of vision and practicality makes Infilect a preferred partner to some of the world's largest retail organizations.
Looking Ahead
The future of retail is visual data. Real-time visibility, whether greater inter-store connectivity or elevated consumer expectations, will be essential. Infilect is well placed to drive this transformation.
With Anand at the helm, the company is increasing its capabilities, including predictive analytics, greater data surrounding competitor activity, and next-level retail planning tools. It aims not just to track what is happening in stores, but to assist brands in predicting what will happen next.
Infilect's vision is to democratize visual intelligence in retail over the next few years, replacing slow manual audits with fast, automated, and accurate insights.
Final Thoughts
Infilect Inc. is more than just a tech company—it's a game changer for the retail sector. Marrying AI with visual data allows brands to see their stores clearly and resolve issues rapidly.
Anand Subramanian is at the heart of this change, whose transition from research labs to entrepreneurship personifies the power of outstanding leadership. With him at the helm, Infilect's evolution into a global retail intelligence leader has made it the go-to solution for brands, irrespective of their territory.
For retailers and CPG companies striving to use technology to drive sales, make operations smarter and run more efficiently, Infilect brings the right combination of innovation, scale and sustainability. This is not about looking at shelves — it's about redefining the future of retail.
