RetailReady (YC W24) — An AI-powered supply chain compliance engine
Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. RetailReady replaces the instruction manual with a tablet application.
RetailReady is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: An AI-powered supply chain compliance engine. The founders listed are Elle Smyth (Founder), Sarah Hamer (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 16, 2024).
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Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. RetailReady replaces the instruction manual with a tablet application.
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RetailReady: A unified approach to retailer compliance
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Elle Smyth
Founder
Elle is the Co-Founder of RetailReady, which she started with Sarah Hamer. An engineering graduate from Duke University, she worked at BlackRock and Stord prior to becoming an entrepreneur. She is driven by immense curiosity and a love for solving complex problems in the supply chain industry.
Sarah Hamer
Founder
Sarah graduated as an industrial engineer from Georgia Tech, was very involved in GT's entrepreneurship community and started her career at Microsoft. After a few years she missed the crazy, fast-paced startup life, and made the switch to Stord – a unicorn supply chain software startup. It was there that she saw retail compliance pain points first hand, met her co-founder, and decided to start RetailReady.
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