Profitmind is Coming to Microsoft Marketplace in Spring 2026

Profitmind, the agentic AI decision intelligence platform built for retail teams, announced it will be available in the Microsoft Marketplace in Spring 2026. Microsoft customers worldwide will be able to discover and deploy Profitmind through Microsoft Marketplace, with unified integration and streamlined management across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products.

For enterprise retailers, this is about reducing friction in adoption while bringing agentic AI directly into the systems and workflows teams already rely on.

What this means for Microsoft customers and retail teams

Microsoft Marketplace is positioned as a single destination where customers can find, try, and buy trusted cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet business objectives. With Profitmind available through Marketplace, retailers get a more direct path to deployment and lifecycle management inside Microsoft environments.

In practice, Marketplace availability supports:

• Faster discovery and evaluation through a trusted Microsoft destination
• Easier deployment for teams already operating in Microsoft Azure
• Smoother operational management across Microsoft products

Why Profitmind exists: operational AI, not more dashboards

Retail teams are not short on reports. They are short on time, alignment, and confidence in decisions that cut across functions.

Profitmind helps retailers operationalize AI across weekly business and planning workflows, reduce manual spreadsheet work, and accelerate decision-making across enterprise teams.

Instead of asking teams to change how they work, Profitmind uses specialized AI agents designed to emulate how retail teams work in practice. These agents:

• Rapidly identify opportunities
• Test cross-functional tradeoffs
• Present recommendations with the context teams need to decide and execute faster and more accurately

What “agentic AI decision intelligence” looks like in merchandising

Merchandising and inventory planning sit at the heart of every retail operation. Profitmind’s positioning is that agentic AI can take complex, fragmented data and turn it into clear, prioritized actions.

Profitmind’s native agentic AI architecture unifies:

• A retailer’s strategy
• Internal data
• External competitive signals

Then it delivers prioritized, explainable recommendations across:

• Pricing
• Promotions
• Inventory
• Marketing
• Assortment

This matters because retail decisions are connected. A pricing move changes promo performance. Promo changes affect inventory. Inventory constraints shape assortment. Profitmind is built to surface a ranked set of actions tied to sales, profit, and working capital impact, while integrating with existing execution systems.

Leadership perspective: why Microsoft Marketplace is a scaling moment

Dr. Mark Chrystal, CEO of Profitmind, emphasized the Marketplace advantage as a catalyst for easier adoption and faster modernization:

Microsoft’s global reach and track record in business software give Profitmind a strong foundation to scale. With Profitmind on Microsoft Marketplace, enterprise retailers can adopt the platform more easily and move from spreadsheets to profit-first recommendations faster.

From Microsoft’s side, Keith Mercier, Vice President, Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods Industry, highlighted the value of agentic AI in merchandising and the benefit of combining Profitmind’s automation with Microsoft’s platforms to improve decisions and streamline execution within existing workflows.

Built by retail operators, used at real scale

Profitmind is positioned as built by retail operators for retail operators, with a focus on helping merchants, planners, and marketers move faster in a market that changes in real time.

The platform is powering mission-critical merchandising decisions at over a dozen retailers, spanning $20 million to $100 billion in revenue, across every merchandise category on three continents.

Profitmind also cites outcomes including:

• A 250+ basis point profit improvement for one client
• Hundreds of hours saved per month in manual data work

What to do next

If you are exploring agentic AI for merchandising, pricing, or inventory planning, Marketplace availability in Spring 2026 is a natural milestone to plan around.

A smart internal prep sequence looks like this:

• Identify the weekly decisions that create the most margin and working capital impact
• Map where spreadsheet work is slowing down decisions and alignment
• Define what “explainable recommendations” must include for your team to trust and act
• Align cross-functional owners early across merchandising, planning, marketing, and finance

Profitmind’s Marketplace availability is ultimately about one thing: making it easier for retail organizations to move from spreadsheet-heavy processes to faster, profit-first decision-making inside the Microsoft ecosystem.