Notes from the gmware team.
Practical writing on building and shipping software: what it costs, how to buy it, and how to get it right. From the engineers who do the work.
Fractional CTO Services: Give the Role Real Authority
Fractional CTO services work when a part-time leader owns named decisions. Use this 30-day authority test to compare scope, access, cadence, and exit terms.
AI Risk Assessment: A Record You Can Defend
An AI risk assessment should end in a go, change, or stop decision. Use this record to map purpose, failure paths, evidence, controls, and owners.
Best Retail Analytics Software for CPG Brands
Compare the best retail analytics software for CPG brands by source data, store grain, cadence, access, and the commercial decision each option supports.
Business Process Automation Consulting: What You Should Get
Business process automation consulting should leave you with working flows, control maps, tests, owners, and handoff records. Use this SOW scorecard.
POS Data Analytics for CPG Suppliers, Not Store Operators
Point of sale data analytics for CPG suppliers: join retailer feeds to item and account masters, read sell-through correctly, and cover what POS misses.
CPG Analytics Tools: How to Build the Right Data Stack
Choose CPG analytics tools by the decisions they support, then connect syndicated, distributor, shelf observation, and internal sales data without duplicate spend.
Retail Competitive Intelligence for the Physical Shelf
Retail competitive intelligence for brand teams: compare software for tracking competitor assortment, shelf price, stock status, promotions, and change.
Retail Analytics Platform RFP Checklist for CPG Brands
Write a retail analytics platform RFP for CPG work with weighted requirements for coverage, store grain, data rights, pilot evidence, and action.
Retail Audit Software: A Buyer's List by Situation
Retail audit software sorted by what you already have: your own reps, an agency walking your stores, or nobody in the aisle. Who each tool is honestly for.
All Commodity Volume: What %ACV Distribution Measures
All commodity volume explained: how %ACV distribution weights stores, why 70% ACV is not 70% of stores, and what the number hides in beverage alcohol.
Who Does the Walking: Retail Data Coverage Economics
Field-rep shelf data covers wherever a human actually walked. Why retail data coverage is a labor-economics question first, and where the gaps predictably land.
On-Shelf Availability: The Formula & the Denominator Problem
The on shelf availability formula is easy. The denominator isn't. Why two teams measuring the same shelf report different OSA numbers, and what a report must disclose.