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Swiftly

Also known as: Swiftly Systems, PrestoQ

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Retail AI platform for retailers, wholesalers, and brands whose marketing and operations agent stacks run on a large proprietary retail dataset to personalize offers, launch closed loop retail media, and automate store operations.

Swiftly, from Swiftly Systems, is a retail AI platform for retailers, wholesalers, and brands. Based in Seattle and formerly known as PrestoQ, it is led by co-founders Henry Kim as chief executive and Sean Turner as chief technology officer, and reached a Series C round with investors including Liquid 2 Ventures and First Star Ventures. The company reports 33,000 storefronts nationally, 92 million shoppers reached, 30 million product line items analyzed daily, and more than $265 billion in annual gross merchandise value moved, and it counts retailers like Circle K, Target, Save A Lot, and Gelson's alongside brands such as Red Bull, Mondelez, and Coca-Cola.

The pitch is that the retailer's team runs the business while Swiftly's agents run the rest. The platform is organized into two AI stacks and a data layer. Marketing AI Stack gives every shopper a marketing agent of their own, identifying the right offers, matching them to the right shoppers, and launching campaigns that drive measurable lift in trips, basket size, and revenue.

Operations AI Stack absorbs systems work, automating vendor communications, invoice reconciliation, and exception management. Underneath both, Swiftly Connect unifies data from the retailer's POS, loyalty, ordering, and supplier systems, with agents reconciling mismatched records, product codes, and legacy data into one consistent view of the store, so personalization runs on purchase history, live inventory, and active promotions together rather than in silos.

Around the stacks sit named solutions a retailer can adopt individually: Audience Optimizer for targeting, SmartCircular which turns the weekly grocery circular into an interactive and measurable channel, App and Web where agents build and manage the retailer's digital properties without a technical team, Alcohol Cashback, and Retail Media. Everything runs as closed loop retail media, so engagement flows back into targeting and promotions are tied through to the basket, and reach extends offsite through a Vistar Media collaboration for programmatic digital out of home.

Swiftly is delivered as a cloud service operated from the United States, and the platform is reached through a customer portal rather than a developer surface. For a retailer, wholesaler, or brand that wants agents to run retail media, personalization, and store operations off its own transaction data, especially outside the largest national chains, Swiftly is a strong and proven fit; a team that needs to build against an API, choose its own models, or place data in a chosen region will find it purpose built for retail instead.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://swiftly.com

Category

GTM / revenue agent

Subcategory

Retail media and commerce AI platform

Funding status

Independent, based in Seattle and formerly known as PrestoQ, led by co-founders Henry Kim as chief executive and Sean Turner as chief technology officer. Swiftly Systems reached a Series C round with investors including Liquid 2 Ventures, PROOF, First Star Ventures, and Gaingels, and runs a research and development team of around eighty engineers. Its AI is built on about forty three billion dollars in live transaction data across thirty three thousand stores, and it works with retailers including Circle K, Target, Save A Lot, and Gelson's and brands including Red Bull, Mondelez, and Coca-Cola.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

retail media and advertisingshopper personalizationretail operations automationclosed loop campaign measurement

Target customers

retailers and grocerswholesalersconsumer brands

Deployment options

SaaScloud

Integrations

Swiftly Connect ships pre-built connections to a retailer's POS, loyalty, ordering and supplier systems and reconciles mismatched records, product codes and legacy data into one view of the store. On top of it the agents run promotions, handle vendor communications and invoice reconciliation, and build and manage the retailer's app and website. Retail media reaches shoppers onsite and offsite, including programmatic digital out of home through a Vistar Media collaboration and store listings on Google and Apple Maps. There is no public API, SDK or MCP surface; the only external entry point is a customer login portal.

In practice

Independent and regional grocers lack the retail media tools national chains use, so they leave supplier funding and personalized offers on the table. Swiftly gives them agents that run targeted, closed loop media off real transaction data.

Your weekly circular is static and one size fits all, and you cannot tie it to sales. Swiftly's SmartCircular turns it into an interactive experience and links promotions through to the basket with measurable results.

Marketing and operations teams lose thousands of hours a week to manual campaign and store workflows. Swiftly's agent stacks automate that work and surface next steps so decisions are faster.

Agentic Index coverage score

6.5 / 14 capabilities · 46%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

The agents act in the retailer's operating systems, not only read them. They process invoices, reconcile billing, handle vendor communications, build circulars, identify incorrect charges, file deduction disputes automatically and launch promotional campaigns. They do this over the POS, loyalty, ordering and supplier systems that Swiftly Connect joins. Those connected systems are named by class rather than by product.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/operations-ai-stackread 2026-10-01

Workflow Orchestration Full

Multi step back office workflows with conditional routing. Agents read vendor responses, answer common questions, run policy lookups, reconcile and file disputes, and route fulfillment gaps, promotion conflicts and pricing discrepancies to the right person. This runs across separate operations and marketing agent stacks.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/operations-ai-stackread 2026-10-01

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Full

Swiftly Connect is the maintained structure, and it is built over the retailer's own knowledge rather than the vendor's. It ships prebuilt connections to the customer's POS, loyalty, ordering and supplier systems. The vendor states its agents reconcile mismatched records, product codes and legacy data into one clean, consistent view of the store, which persists and is read at decision time.

When Swiftly knows each shopper's purchase history, current inventory and active promotions all at once, it can personalize the circular, the app and the campaigns in ways siloed sources cannot. That is an index over customer data that outlives any single run. Swiftly's own proprietary retail dataset, forty three billion dollars of transactions across thirty three thousand stores, is its aggregate corpus and training material rather than the customer's knowledge.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/swiftly-connectread 2026-09-01

Human Oversight & Guardrails Partial

Decisions are reserved to people at named points. The Operations AI Stack page states that the agents handle vendor communications and deal work while the retailer approves the deals, and that fulfillment gaps, promotion conflicts and pricing discrepancies are routed to the right person. No approval mechanism or setting is documented beyond that statement.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/operations-ai-stackread 2026-10-01

Security, Identity & Governance Not documented

Security controls are not published. A trust center at trust.swiftly.com is linked from the footer and the privacy policy, but it shows no readable content. The privacy policy lists generic safeguards, namely an information security policy, pseudonymization, anonymization and cyber security, with no attestation, and no SOC 2 report or equivalent is published. The terms are silent, and no access model or identity integration that a retailer operates is described, including how retailer users sign in and are granted access. Data ownership positioning is not a control.

Sourcetrust.swiftly.comread 2026-09-30

Observability & Auditability Not documented

Closed loop measurement is campaign reporting, and reporting is not auditing. What the platform documents is outcome measurement. Promotions are tied through to the basket, lift is measured in trips, basket size and revenue, and campaign results feed back into targeting. That answers whether a campaign worked, not what an agent did.

No run history, agent activity log, per action trail or record of which offers an agent selected for which shopper and why is documented on the platform pages, the Swiftly Connect page or in the privacy policy, and the Trust Center shows no readable content. This matters because the agents act on their own on promotions and vendor communications.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/retail-media and swiftly.com/platform/swiftly-connectread 2026-09-01

Memory & State Persistence Partial

Swiftly documents no memory layer and names no memory feature, scope or lifetime. The state the agents work from is the retailer's unified data view, which Swiftly Connect builds out of their POS, loyalty, inventory and supplier systems, so an agent's accumulated knowledge is not separable from the retailer's own business records. A database is not a memory layer.

What does exist is real persistent state the agents read, with shopper purchase history, current inventory and active promotions held together at decision time and campaign outcomes retained across cycles. The closed loop, where every interaction makes the next campaign smarter, is model optimization over that data rather than a memory store.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/swiftly-connect and swiftly.comread 2026-09-01

Deployment & Data Residency Not documented

Cloud only, with nothing the customer selects. The privacy policy states the company operates from offices in the United States and may store and use information in the United States and other jurisdictions. It may also transfer data to further jurisdictions so third party processors can access it, with standard contractual clauses covering EEA transfers. That is legal cover and an undisclosed processing footprint, not residency. No region choice, data center disclosure, VPC, private tenancy, self hosted or on premises option appears on any platform page or in the legal pages.

Sourceswiftly.com/legal/privacy-policyread 2026-09-01

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Full

A named set of packaged agent products that a retailer adopts rather than assembles. The vendor's navigation splits them into two AI Stacks (Operations AI Stack and Marketing AI Stack) and five AI Solutions (Audience Optimizer, SmartCircular, App and Web, Alcohol Cashback and Retail Media), each with its own product page.

Marketing AI Stack is described as giving every shopper a marketing agent working just for them. Operations AI Stack automates vendor communications, invoice reconciliation and exception management, and App and Web is described as agents that build and manage the retailer's digital properties with no tech team required. A customer switches these on as modules, and nothing here is assembled by the buyer.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/marketing-ai-stack, swiftly.com/platform/operations-ai-stack and the swiftly.com platform navigationread 2026-09-01

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Work reaches the agents without a person starting it. They read every inbound vendor response as it arrives, produce an automated weekly circular on a schedule and act on live transaction data. The marketing stack launches campaigns to shoppers from real shopper behavior.

Sourceswiftly.com/platform/operations-ai-stackread 2026-10-01

Model Flexibility & Routing Not documented

Runs on its own proprietary models with no documented customer choice or routing of the underlying model.

Sourceswiftly.comread 2026-09-01

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Not documented

Nothing callable from outside is documented. The site navigation and footer form a complete map of the property, running AI Stack, AI Solutions, About and Resources with legal links, and carry no developer, documentation, API or status entry. The only application surface is a customer login at portal.swiftly.com.

No API, SDK, webhook or MCP server appears on any platform page, in the privacy policy or in the terms. The prebuilt connectors to the retail technology a store already uses are integrations, where Swiftly calls out to the retailer's systems, not a surface a customer can build against.

Sourceswiftly.com navigation and footerread 2026-09-01

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Partial

Campaign results are fed back into targeting and reported as measurable lift in trips, basket size and revenue. That is an asserted improvement loop, with no documented mechanism for evaluating a change to the agents. Closed loop campaign measurement measures the promotions rather than the agent.

Sourceswiftly.comread 2026-10-01

Browser & Computer Use Not documented

Acts through retail systems and media channels rather than driving a browser or operating a computer interface.

Sourceswiftly.comread 2026-09-01

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Pricing

Not public; quoted through sales engagement

modular subscription scoped to the modules deployed and store, shopper, or media volume

What is public

No list pricing. Swiftly sells through sales engagement, and rates are not public.

Billing mechanics

Presumed modular subscription scoped to the modules deployed and store, shopper, or media volume, with a retail media layer tied to campaign spend, though full rates are not disclosed.

Cost watchouts

Adding modules, stores, and media volume raises cost, and the retail media layer introduces spend based costs on top of the platform subscription.

Variable cost rationale

Priced as a modular platform where a customer can start with a single module or deploy the full stack, so cost scales with the modules enabled and the store, shopper, and media volume, and retail media adds a spend based layer.

Additional watchouts

Confirm how pricing scales as you add modules and stores, and how the retail media component prices relative to the platform subscription.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Demo and pilot on request; no public free tier

Key ambiguities

No public rate is disclosed, and the split between platform subscription, per module pricing, and retail media spend is not clear.

Agentic Index verified 2026-10-01

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