Swiftly

Swiftly, from Swiftly Systems, is a retail AI platform built for retailers, wholesalers, and brands, running on what the company calls the industry's largest proprietary retail dataset. 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. Its AI is trained on about forty three billion dollars in live transaction data, nine million products, and closed loop campaign outcomes from thirty three thousand stores, 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 a retailer's team runs the business while Swiftly's agents run the rest. The platform is organized into AI stacks, a Marketing AI stack that gives each shopper a personal marketing agent and an Operations AI stack that automates the manual work behind the store, with Swiftly Connect unifying data that lives in separate systems into one decision layer. Agents identify the right offers, match them to the right shoppers, launch campaigns, and build and manage a retailer's app and website as an AI ready commerce surface. Named products include Audience Optimizer for targeting and SmartCircular, which turns a weekly grocery circular into an interactive, measurable channel. Everything runs as closed loop retail media, so engagement flows back into targeting and every interaction makes the next campaign smarter, tying promotions all the way through to the basket.

Swiftly emphasizes that personalization is controlled by the retailer, who keeps ownership of data, branding, and the customer relationship, and it connects to the retail systems a store already runs. It is delivered as a cloud platform without a documented on premise option, runs on its own models, and is not a general purpose agent builder or a browser automation tool. For a retailer, wholesaler, or brand that wants agents to run retail media, personalization, and store operations off real transaction data, especially outside the largest national chains, Swiftly is a strong and proven fit; a team wanting an open, model flexible platform to build arbitrary agents will find it purpose built for retail instead.