CONVERSATIONAL BI FOR RETAIL AND CPG

Ask your commerce data. Get answers you can act on.

Yarnit brings a commerce intelligence layer to enterprise data, allowing teams to explore performance in natural language. Ask a question, investigate what changed, drill into the drivers and uncover where to act next. Specialist AI agents work across your data, business definitions and analytical tools to deliver contextual answers—not simply generated SQL.

FROM DATA ACCESS TO DECISION ACCESS

Business questions should not wait in an analytics queue

Retail and CPG teams have more data than ever. Getting a trusted, contextual answer still takes too long.

Answers are trapped behind dashboards

Dashboards explain what they were designed to show. Every new question creates another filter, report or request for the analytics team.

Business context gets lost

Generic BI tools can query tables, but they do not inherently understand products, categories, customers, stores, retailers, promotions or commerce KPIs.

The “why” takes too long to find

A performance change is only the starting point. Teams still need to investigate its drivers, compare segments and determine the next action.

CORE CAPABILITIES

Intelligence built for commerce questions

Combine enterprise data, commerce context and coordinated AI agents in one governed analytical experience.

Commerce Intelligence Layer

Give AI a working understanding of your products, categories, customers, channels, stores, retailers, promotions and commercial KPIs.

Context Graphs and Ontologies

Connect business terms, entities, metrics and relationships so questions are interpreted in the context of how your organisation operates.

Advanced Natural Language to SQL

Translate complex business questions into accurate, executable queries across enterprise data models. Yarnit combines schema intelligence, semantic context, query planning and validation to improve NL-to-SQL reliability beyond literal text-to-query generation.

Charts and Decision Narratives

Present every answer in the most useful form—from comparisons and trends to concise narratives explaining what changed and where attention is required.

Conversational Drill-downs

Move from a headline metric to its underlying drivers through follow-up questions that retain the context of the analysis.

Agentic Query Orchestration

A router, compiler and specialist agents coordinate intent interpretation, data retrieval, SQL generation, validation, visualisation and response creation.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Conversational BI FAQs

What is Conversational BI?

Conversational BIallows users to explore business data by asking questions in natural language.Yarnit interprets the question, retrieves and analyses the relevant data, andreturns the answer as a chart, narrative or structured insight. Users can then askfollow-up questions and drill into the result.

How is Conversational BI different from a chatbot?

A general chatbotgenerates responses from language and available documents. Yarnit’sConversational BI is connected to governed enterprise data and uses analyticalagents, business context and validated queries to calculate its answers.

What makes Yarnit’s Conversational BI relevant to retail and CPG?

Yarnit adds acommerce intelligence layer that understands entities and relationships such asproducts, SKUs, categories, customers, stores, retailers, channels, promotionsand commercial KPIs. This helps the system interpret questions in the contextof retail and CPG operations.

How does natural language to SQL work?

Yarnit interpretsthe business question, identifies the relevant metrics and dimensions, mapsthem to the underlying data model, generates the query and validates theresult. This combination of context, query planning and validation deliversgreater reliability than generating SQL from the question alone.

Can users ask follow-up questions?

Yes. Users cancontinue the analysis without starting again. They can change the time period,compare regions, filter a customer segment or drill from a category intoindividual brands and SKUs while retaining the context of the originalquestion.

What kinds of answers can the platform generate?

Depending on thequestion, Yarnit can generate charts, tables, KPI summaries, comparisons andwritten narratives. It can also highlight important drivers, anomalies andareas that merit further investigation.

Which data platforms can Yarnit connect to?

Yarnit canconnect to relational databases and modern enterprise data platforms, includingSnowflake and Databricks. The specific connection model depends on thecustomer’s architecture, security policies and data governance requirements.

Can Conversational BI be deployed on-premises?

Yes. Yarnit cansupport deployment within the customer’s cloud, virtual private cloud oron-premises environment when required for security, governance or dataresidency.

Does Yarnit replace our existing BI platform?

Notnecessarily. Yarnit can complement existing dashboards and reporting tools byproviding a conversational exploration layer for questions that are not alreadyanswered by predefined reports.

How does Yarnit govern the answers?

The solution canuse governed metric definitions, access controls, context graphs, ontologiesand app contracts. Queries and analytical steps can be made traceable so userscan understand the data and logic behind an answer.

EXPLORE YOUR DATA DIFFERENTLY

Start with a business question—not another dashboard

Give retail and CPG teams a faster path from commerce data to contextual answers and better decisions.

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