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AI for following up on campaign execution
Short answer
For a campaign across a network of outlets, an AI agent links the campaign plan with the outlet managers' replies, recognises obstacles that need help from head office and writes questions for the support team. The network manager sees which outlet to help before the next reminder. The agent costs from €3,000 net at Syntalith and, with 300 outlet replies a month at 8 minutes each, pays back in 3.1 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- net per agent for one process, build paid once
- from €3,000
- from signing the contract to acceptance
- 6–16 weeks
- free prototype on your cases
- €0
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
Retail chains and AI: statistics 2026
3.1 mo.
payback of a €3,000 agent with 300 outlet replies a month: €1,396 of work today, €421 with checking and the model. Scenario.
15.5%
According to Eurostat (2025), 15.5% of EU retail trade enterprises with at least 10 employees used AI.
Source: Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by NACE Rev. 2 activity (isoc_eb_ain2) (2025) ↗
34.7%
According to Eurostat (2025), 34.7% of EU enterprises that use AI use it for marketing or sales.
Source: Eurostat, Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises (2025) ↗
90%
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies that use AI say people take the decisions, and 2% of decisions are fully automated.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer on AI and algorithmic management (2026) ↗
47%
According to the European Commission (2026), customer service is the most common use of AI among EU SMEs and mid-caps that already use it: 47%.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer on AI and algorithmic management (2026) ↗
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
The outlet has the materials but cannot set up the display
Head office sent campaign materials to 120 outlets. One outlet confirmed it received the posters and information cards, and in a later email added that the stand from the display plan is missing. Another outlet writes that the display is ready. A third does not reply. The campaign manager sends everyone the same reminder, and the outlet without the stand gets chased for something it is waiting for from head office.
The agent shows the message on the outlet and prepares a question for the person responsible for fittings: was the stand sent, and what should we tell the outlet manager? When the team proposes a different display layout, the campaign manager judges it by the company's rules. The agent creates no display rules of its own. A missing reply is no basis for assessing staff, because the coordinator may know the circumstances.
- 01Planthe agreed set of materials and displays for the outlets
- 02Repliesconfirmations and obstacles on each outlet
- 03Helpcases that need action from head office
- 04Questionsrequests to the support team with links
- 05Remindersonly for outlets that are not waiting for head office
What it costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 300 outlet replies × 8 min = 40 h (€1,396)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 30% of the time
- €419
- Model, 1 call per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €3
- Cost of one case
- €4.65 today, €1.40 with the system
- Saving
- €975 a month
Payback of €3,000
3.1 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 3,000 input and 300 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The count covers the work around a case: searching, reading, writing and passing things on. What remains is the time to check the output, 30% of today's work in the scenario. Before the quote we measure both times on 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, in a €0 test that takes 5 working days.
More important than the coordinator's hours is the number of outlets where the campaign really started on time. An outlet waiting a week for a stand loses a week of sales of the promoted product. That is why the trial also counts the time from an outlet reporting an obstacle to head office answering.
When an inspection app is enough
SafetyCulture lets you run actions with comments, and attaches photos and notes to actions raised from inspection questions. If the network collects confirmations of campaign execution in such a tool, its report is enough. The question of which instruction applies in an outlet belongs to a knowledge base for a franchise network. An agent makes sense when replies arrive by email and messenger, and the obstacles have to be read from the text.
Outlets confirm completion in an inspection app
the app's report
licence
A dozen or so outlets
a spreadsheet list kept by the coordinator
no build
A hundred outlets, replies in emails and messenger
an agent that gathers replies and obstacles
from €3,000
Where to start
The first scope covers one campaign. The team names the plan, the places where replies are collected and the people who support the outlets. We build this as part of AI agents. For the free process review, a description of one case from recent weeks and the tools it ran through is enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you get a written plan within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: team collaboration tools
We run the same count for your network in the free process review.
€4,534
a month for finding agreements and handing over cases in a team of 10
Payback: 1 mo.
3 hours a week per person for finding agreements and handing over cases is our assumption. A 30% cut sits within the range of controlled studies (MIT: 40%, Harvard and BCG: 25%). €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Licence: ChatGPT Business or Claude Team at 20 USD per person a month on annual billing, about €17.85 at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. Rollout: from €1,150 for up to 10 people, from €2,300 for 11 to 40 people.
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