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Market Intelligence Agent
The Market Intelligence Agent is a Data-family agent on FMCG Cloud that turns what your reps already see in store into a live read on competitor price and promotion — so the market moves you find out about are the ones you find first.
What a Market Intelligence Agent does
The Market Intelligence Agent watches the competitive shelf the same way your field team does, then does the work no rep has time for. Every visit photo, every audit note, every price captured on a route becomes a structured signal: a competitor SKU's price point, a new gondola or end-cap promotion, a multibuy or temporary price reduction, a facing gained or lost. Instead of that intelligence dying in a folder of photos, the agent normalises it against the FMCG Cloud one data model — resolving the same outlet, the same SKU, the same competitor brand across every distributor and territory — so a price seen in one store can be compared to last week, to the next town over, and to your own price on the same shelf.
Because it runs on field data rather than a syndicated panel, it sees the market at the resolution that actually matters in FMCG route-to-market: the individual outlet. The agent tracks competitor pricing drift store by store, flags when a rival promotion appears in a channel or region, and surfaces where a competitor is undercutting you or buying share of shelf. It distinguishes a one-off local discount from a campaign rolling across a territory, and it timestamps the change — so commercial teams can see not just that a competitor moved, but when, where, and how fast it spread.
Crucially, the Market Intelligence Agent doesn't stop at observing. As a working agent, its output is built to trigger the next action on the same platform: a competitor price cut becomes an alert to the Revenue Growth AI category to re-score the affected promotion or pricing line; a rival promo detected on the shelf becomes context in the rep's next visit brief; a share-of-shelf loss becomes a flag the field team can act on before the next order cycle. It reads the market and hands the finding to the part of the platform that can respond.
Why it matters on one data model
In consumer goods, competitive moves are won or lost at the shelf, and the people standing in front of that shelf — your reps — are already capturing the evidence on every visit. The problem has never been collecting competitor price and promo data; it's that the data arrives as thousands of disconnected photos and notes, days late and impossible to compare. The Market Intelligence Agent closes that gap by making field-captured competitive intelligence continuous, structured and outlet-level, instead of a quarterly report that's stale before anyone reads it.
It matters most because it lives on one data model. The same competitor signal that the Market Intelligence Agent extracts is instantly usable by the pricing, promotion, segmentation and field-sales workflows around it — no exports, no reconciliation, no separate market-research silo. That is what earning FMCG Verified certification guarantees: this is a working agent that classifies under the FMCG Cloud Agent Taxonomy, shares the same outlet, SKU and promotion definitions as every other agent on the platform, and turns competitive awareness from a backward-looking deck into a live input to the decisions your commercial team makes every week.
The trust layer
What “FMCG Verified Market Intelligence Agent” guarantees
Every Market Intelligence Agent on the marketplace — first-party or partner — must clear the same six criteria before it earns the mark.
Protocol compliance
MCP & A2A interoperability — the agent consumes and emits on the one FMCG Cloud data model.
Observability
Emits the standard event schema — every action shows in the activity feed with an auditable decision trail.
Performance
Meets the per-family latency SLOs — execution-family responses in seconds, finance-family in batch windows.
Security review
Passes the platform security review — least-privilege data access, scopes disclosed at install.
Support SLO
The vendor commits to the published support response times for its tier.
Data-handling posture
Documented residency, retention and tenant isolation — no cross-tenant training without opt-in.
Market Intelligence Agents on the marketplace
FMCG Cloud — Market Intelligence Agent
The first-party Market Intelligence Agent, FMCG Verified at launch and live on the one data model.
Partner Market Intelligence Agents — onboarding
Specialist vendors are onboarding through the marketplace. Build one and list it — become a partner.
More in the Data family
Part of the Revenue Growth AI category · see all 16 agent types.