Intelligent Assistant

AI gets the headlines.
IA gets the work done.

Hank is the Intelligent Assistant built into tapestry. Working from your live shelf data, Hank fits the work you already do, and flags when the data can't answer the question.

Live POS data
Every store, every minute
One assistant
Same Hank, wherever you work.
Built in
Retail+, Supply+, Collectives
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A day with Hank

Tuesday morning,
before your first coffee.

You open tapestry on your phone. Overnight, Hank has surfaced three things worth a look. You read them, then ask a question of your own.

01

You ask. Show me my worst 20 products this month. Hank returns the list from your live data.

02

You dig in. Pick one of the three follow-up questions Hank suggests, or type your own.

03

You act. Turn the result into a List, send it to your category manager, and draft a task off the back of it.

90s
Start to finish. No reports built. No dashboards opened. No prompts to learn.

Hank enhances the team. Hank does not replace them.

How Hank works

Ask. Answer. Act. Approve.

Every interaction with Hank follows the same four steps. You ask. Hank answers and acts. You approve.

01 · Ask
You ask Hank a question in plain language.

Top sellers this week. Worst 20 products this month. How a store is tracking against last month. Anything inside your live POS data.

02 · Answer
Hank retrieves it from your data.

Pulled live, scoped to what you’re cleared to see. Hank surfaces a few follow-up questions alongside, so you can dig deeper.

03 · Act
Hank pre-fills the next step.

A list, a task, an export, a chart. Whatever turns the answer into work. Hank drafts. Hank does not decide.

04 · Approve
You review and sign off.

You edit. You approve, or you don’t. Nothing happens in your store without your sign-off.

Capabilities

How Hank can help.

Live in product, built into your workflow, designed to save your team time without taking their judgement out of the loop.

Plain-language Q&A

Ask anything inside your retail data - sales, margin, transactions, quantity, across stores, products, categories, suppliers and time.  Hank translates the question into a query and returns the answer in seconds.

Follow-up suggestions

After every answer, Hank surfaces three follow-up questions to help you dig deeper. Pick one, type your own, or close the thread.

In-chat visualisation

Charts and graphs render inline. Spot the trend without leaving the conversation.

List creation

Turn any product list Hank returns into a saved List in Retail+, pre-filled and ready to action. You review, adjust, confirm.

Task creation

Convert an insight into a trackable task with context from the conversation already attached. Send it to a teammate. Close the loop.

Export to CSV

Need the data outside the platform? Any table Hank returns is one click from a CSV.

Hank · Recommendations Pro

The next move, before you go looking for it.

Recommendations is the proactive side of Hank. Hank reads your live store data and hands you a ranked set of actions to grow margin and improve the customer experience, each one scored for confidence and ready to turn into a task. Hank does the looking. You do the deciding.

Hank Recommendations in Retail+: a ranked, confidence-scored list of store actions

What Hank recommends

Hank generates recommendations across the areas that move the business, each aimed at growing margin or improving the customer experience. This is not a dashboard you have to interrogate. The work finds you.

  • Assortment
  • Pricing
  • Promotions
  • Operations

How you can trust it

A confidence score on every recommendation

See at a glance how strongly the data backs it.

The full reasoning, on demand

Open any recommendation to read Hank's analysis and the data behind it. Nothing is a black box.

Ask follow-up questions

Not convinced, or want to dig deeper? Ask Hank about any recommendation and Hank answers in context.

What you can do with it

Focus fast

Filter recommendations by shop, department, type or priority, and clear it all in one click.

Refresh on demand

Trigger Hank to re-analyse your data and generate a new set whenever you need it.

Turn it into action

Add any recommendation as a task straight from the detail panel, so a suggestion becomes a tracked, assigned job, with a photo required on close.

Why it matters

The hardest part of running on data is not seeing the number, it is knowing which of a hundred numbers deserves your attention today. Recommendations does the triage, shows its working, and lets you act in one tap, so the analysis turns into something done.

Who it's for

Owner / CEO COO Buying Manager Category Manager Store Manager

Common questions

Where do the recommendations come from?

Hank analyses your live store data and generates them. You can refresh the set on demand.

Can I tell how reliable one is?

Yes. Each carries a confidence score, and you can open the full reasoning behind it.

What do I do with one?

Turn it into a task in one tap, or ask Hank a follow-up question first.

Is it in Lite?

Recommendations is part of Retail+ Pro.

What Hank doesn’t do

You’re still in charge.

The limits matter as much as the features. Here’s what Hank doesn’t do, and why we built it that way.

  1. 01

    Hank doesn't decide.

    Hank surfaces. Your people choose. A list, a task, an order: whatever Hank pre-fills waits for a human to approve before it goes anywhere.

  2. 02

    Hank doesn't replace your team.

    Hank gives your team better questions to start the day with, and faster answers when they ask. The work still belongs to the people who know your shop floor.

  3. 03

    Hank doesn't cross your data boundaries.

    Hank only retrieves what your permissions allow. Supplier data stays with the supplier. Store data stays with the store. Org admins control who can ask what.

  4. 04

    Hank doesn't make things up.

    Hank answers from your live POS data, not a generic model trained on the internet. If the data can’t answer the question, Hank flags it.

Where Hank works

Same intelligence. Different shelf.

Hank is built into all three tapestry products. Pick yours.

Economic Impact Report v2.0 May 2026

Modelled value with Hank in the loop.

v2 of our Economic Impact Report puts a finance-ready figure on what Retail+ (with Hank inside) is worth per store. Built from inputs you already know: revenue, gross margin, labour cost. Verified academic citations.

Per store, per year
A$27.5k to A$181.4k
Based on a typical A$30m store at 27% GM, net of subscription. Excludes optional supplier monetisation.

Put Hank to work.

The first four weeks are free. Prove the value on your own data.