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Praval Technologies

From Shopper Insight to Category Growth

Turn shopper behavior into smarter assortments, stronger strategies and measurable results.

  • Understand Shoppers

    • Who they are
    • Needs & missions
    • Shopping occasions
  • Identify Opportunities

    • White spaces
    • Growth drivers
    • Portfolio optimization
  • Design Strategies

    • Assortment
    • Pricing
    • Placement
  • Activate Tactics

    • Promotions
    • Merchandising
    • Execution
  • Drive Profitable Growth

    Bigger baskets · Stronger loyalty · Category expansion · Measurable business impact

Move from reporting what happened to deciding what happens next.

Traditional category management is often fragmented across reports, spreadsheets and disconnected analysis. CategoryIQ brings shopper, product, pricing, promotion and performance signals into one decision framework.

Not another dashboard. A category decision engine.

CategoryIQ helps teams translate insight into category choices, tactical actions and measurable commercial outcomes.

One connected system for category decisions

  1. See the whole category

    Connect shopper, assortment, price, promotion and performance context.

  2. Prioritize opportunities

    Focus attention on the growth levers with the greatest commercial impact.

  3. Make faster decisions

    Turn analysis into clear recommendations and next-best actions.

  4. Close the loop

    Track implementation, outcomes and learnings to continuously improve the category.

AI-Powered Category Management

AI that helps category teams think, decide and act.

CategoryIQ combines analytics, category management logic and AI to surface opportunities, explain drivers and recommend actions across the end-to-end category lifecycle.

  1. Layer 1

    Data & Signals

    Shopper · Product · Price · Promotion · Performance

  2. Layer 2

    Analytics & Diagnosis

    What changed? Why? Where is the opportunity?

  3. Layer 3

    Decision Intelligence

    What should we do next, and what impact can it create?

  4. Layer 4

    Action & Review

    Activate decisions, measure outcomes and learn continuously.

Category Tactics

Turn strategy into the four decisions that move the category.

CategoryIQ connects insight to tactical execution across the commercial levers category managers control.

  • Price

    Understand price architecture, elasticity, price gaps and competitive position to support profitable pricing decisions.

  • Promotion

    Evaluate promotional effectiveness, incrementality, cannibalization and shopper response to improve promotion quality.

  • Assortment

    Identify productive SKUs, white spaces, duplication and shopper need coverage to build stronger assortments.

  • Space

    Align shelf, placement and digital visibility to shopper demand, product productivity and category strategy.

Beyond Dashboards & Reporting

CategoryIQ is designed for decision making.

Dashboards tell teams what happened. CategoryIQ adds the intelligence layer that helps them understand why it happened, what matters most and what action to take next.

  1. Insight
  2. Recommendation
  3. Action
  4. Outcome

Build smarter categories with decisions powered by insight and AI.

CategoryIQ brings the complete category management journey into one connected experience, from shopper understanding to profitable growth.