# Ocally > Ocally is an AI growth platform that puts Kai, an AI growth agent, to work in every store for retail chains and franchise brands. Built for chains and franchise brands, and open to every retail business, from a single store up. Pricing is customized, with a minimum of $500 per location per month. Ocally is built for retail chains and franchise brands, typically with ten or more locations, where every store is its own business with its own customers, street and bottlenecks. Kai, Ocally's AI growth agent, learns each store and does the work it needs and nobody has time for: 16 capabilities, from listings, reviews and AI answers to pricing, inventory and store routines. Every customer also gets two people from Ocally: a growth engineer who connects their systems, and a growth specialist who checks Kai's work and guides the team. Anything that goes public, spends money, changes a price or messages a customer waits for approval. Every business gets its own isolated platform and database, and Ocally does not train or fine-tune AI models on customer data. Pricing is customized to each customer, with a minimum of $500 per location per month; the first consultation is free. Ocally, Inc. is based in Palo Alto, California, and was founded in 2026. Contact: onboard@ocally.co. How to read this site as an agent: every page on ocally.co has a markdown twin at the same path plus `.md` (the homepage is https://ocally.co/index.md), and every page answers `Accept: text/markdown` with that twin. If you are deciding whether Ocally fits a business, start with the first link below. To book: https://cal.com/ocally/30min (a free 30-minute consultation). ## Start here - [Is Ocally right for this business?](https://ocally.co/evaluate.md): Who Ocally fits and who it does not, the questions that decide it, what it costs, what the business gets, the risks, how to start, and what to tell your human. - [Pricing](https://ocally.co/pricing.md): Customized to each customer, with a minimum spend of $500 per location per month. The floor by chain size, what the price covers, and what chains pay today for the same work, with sources. - [See if we're a fit](https://ocally.co/fit.md): The two-minute fit check: every question and allowed answer, how the result is decided, and how an agent can submit it for its human, with their consent. - [Book a free consultation](https://ocally.co/consultation.md): A free 30-minute video call on one of the business's stores, and where Kai would start. How to book, what to bring, and what to ask that Ocally does not publish. ## Ocally - [Home](https://ocally.co/index.md): What Ocally is, who it is for, what it costs and how to start, on one page. - [The Ocally platform](https://ocally.co/platform.md): What Kai runs on: what it connects, the Knowledge Store, a decision engine per store, approvals and receipts, and how results are measured. - [Security and data ownership](https://ocally.co/security.md): Data ownership, an isolated platform per business, credentials agents never see, approvals, role-based access, and AI training (none on customer data). What is published, and what to ask. - [About Ocally](https://ocally.co/about.md): Who Ocally is, what it does, what makes it different, who it is for, how it works, the team, and the key facts. ## Capabilities - [All of Kai's capabilities](https://ocally.co/capabilities.md): Everything Kai does at every store, in four areas: make, get found, win customers and sell more. Which one to start with, and what each replaces. - [Listings](https://ocally.co/capabilities/listings.md): Local listings management for retail chains. Kai keeps every store's hours, photos and details right on Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Yelp and more. - [Product feeds](https://ocally.co/capabilities/product-feeds.md): Product feed management for retail chains. Kai checks every product against each destination's rules, fixes what's missing and keeps every feed live. - [Inventory](https://ocally.co/capabilities/inventory.md): AI inventory management for retail chains. Kai keeps a stock count per store, flags what will run out or sit unsold, and suggests what to reorder or move. - [Code](https://ocally.co/capabilities/code.md): Kai works as an AI developer for your stores: he writes the code a job needs, tests it in a real browser and saves every version for your approval. - [Local SEO](https://ocally.co/capabilities/local-search.md): Local SEO software for retail chains. Kai tracks where every store shows up on Google Search and Maps, finds what holds it back and fixes it with your yes. - [AI answers](https://ocally.co/capabilities/ai-answers.md): AI visibility tracking for every store. Kai checks what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews say, and fixes wrong facts at the source. - [Store pages](https://ocally.co/capabilities/websites.md): Location pages for every store, built from your knowledge base: address, phone, map, products and reviews, checked and live once you approve. - [Reviews](https://ocally.co/capabilities/reviews.md): Review management for every store. Kai drafts a reply to every review from the store's own facts, and posts the ones you approve. - [Messaging and loyalty](https://ocally.co/capabilities/messaging.md): A retail CRM that keeps one record per customer, per store, with consent. Kai writes the texts, handles the replies and runs the points. - [Social](https://ocally.co/capabilities/social.md): Kai works as an AI social media manager for each store: a local calendar, posts and reels, replies to comments. Each waits for your yes. - [Partnerships](https://ocally.co/capabilities/community.md): Kai finds local business partnerships and events near each store, writes the proposal and plans the day. Every promise and spend waits for your yes. - [Images](https://ocally.co/capabilities/images.md): AI graphic design for retail chains: Kai makes and edits images for each store, sizes them for every channel and saves nothing without your yes. - [Video](https://ocally.co/capabilities/video.md): An AI reel generator for retail chains: Kai cuts each store's own clips and photos into vertical reels, adds your music and waits for your yes. - [Pricing and offers](https://ocally.co/capabilities/pricing.md): Price optimization for retail chains. Kai spots items priced differently across stores and shows each offer's margin before you approve it. - [Competitors](https://ocally.co/capabilities/competitors.md): Competitor analysis for retail chains, store by store. Kai finds nearby rivals, you pick the ones that matter, and he watches what they change. - [Store routines](https://ocally.co/capabilities/store-operations.md): Store operations for retail chains: Kai writes each checklist, gives every store its work on its own clock, checks the proof and shows who is keeping up. ## Use cases - [Use cases](https://ocally.co/use-cases.md): Research on where AI is taking retail chains, and what to do this year: store-level profit, agentic commerce readiness and agentic personalization. - [Your chain average is hiding the stores that lose money](https://ocally.co/use-cases/profit-optimization.md): AI retail analytics for chains: why the chain average hides losing stores, how to manage profit store by store, where AI breaks, what to do this year. - [AI agents now shop your stores before your customers do](https://ocally.co/use-cases/agentic-commerce.md): Agentic commerce, explained for retail chains: how AI agents pick stores, what OpenAI, Google and Visa are building, and what to fix this year. - [Personalize each store before you personalize each shopper](https://ocally.co/use-cases/agentic-personalization.md): Retail personalization run by AI agents: fit each store to its neighborhood, each week to local events, and each message to regulars who opted in. ## Blog - [The Ocally blog](https://ocally.co/blog.md): Plain guides, templates and research for people who run retail chains and franchise brands, one post a week. - [Electronic shelf labels, explained for owners: cost, labor and the law](https://ocally.co/blog/electronic-shelf-labels.md): Electronic shelf labels explained for store owners. What they change for staff, what the research found, which states limit them, and a payback worksheet. - [Ask Maps now picks stores for shoppers. Test whether it picks yours](https://ocally.co/blog/google-ask-maps.md): What Google's Ask Maps is, what changed in August 2026, and a 10-question test to see whether Ask Maps names your stores and gets them right. - [Holiday hours sign templates that match every listing, plus a checklist](https://ocally.co/blog/holiday-hours-sign-and-checklist.md): Two holiday hours sign templates with the 2026 dates, plus a checklist to set the same hours on Google, Apple Maps, Yelp, Bing, Facebook and your site. - [How to remove a Google review, and what Google won't remove](https://ocally.co/blog/how-to-remove-google-reviews.md): How to remove reviews from Google: which reviews Google takes down, how to report and appeal, how long it takes, and what to do with a fair bad review. - [Small Business Saturday is November 28. A three-week plan for your stores](https://ocally.co/blog/small-business-saturday-2026.md): Small Business Saturday ideas for November 28, 2026. Who qualifies for the Shop Small map, a dated three-week plan, offers that keep margin, templates. - [Every store deserves a flagship's attention. Here's how we work](https://ocally.co/blog/why-we-built-ocally.md): Why Ocally exists, what we believe about local stores, and the eight principles behind Kai, the platform and the two people every customer gets. ## Compare - [How Ocally compares](https://ocally.co/compare.md): Honest comparisons of the tools retail chains and franchise brands use for listings, reviews, messaging and AI search, with dated prices and sources. - [AI visibility tools compared, for brands with many stores](https://ocally.co/compare/ai-visibility-tools.md): AI visibility tools compared for retail chains: what Ocally, Peec AI, Otterly, Profound, Scrunch, Semrush, Ahrefs and Yext Scout measure, cost and fix. - [Birdeye alternatives for retail chains, and what Birdeye costs](https://ocally.co/compare/birdeye-alternatives.md): Birdeye alternatives for retail chains: Birdeye pricing and renewal terms, the real cost with staff time, Birdeye vs Podium, and seven options with prices. - [Podium alternatives for retail chains, and what Podium costs](https://ocally.co/compare/podium-alternatives.md): Podium alternatives for retail chains: what Podium really costs with staff time, what its contract says, and six options compared, starting with Ocally. - [The best Profound alternatives for retail chains, with prices checked](https://ocally.co/compare/profound-alternatives.md): Profound alternatives for retail chains: what Profound really costs once you count the people, contract terms buyers miss, and seven options, prices checked. - [The best reputation management software for multi-location retail in 2026](https://ocally.co/compare/reputation-management-software.md): Compare the best reputation management software for retail chains in 2026: Ocally, Birdeye, Reputation, Yext, SOCi and more, with prices and the real cost. - [The best SOCi alternatives for franchise brands, and what SOCi costs](https://ocally.co/compare/soci-alternatives.md): SOCi alternatives for chains and franchise brands: what SOCi really costs once you count the people, what its terms say, and seven options with prices checked. - [The best Yext alternatives for retail chains, with prices checked](https://ocally.co/compare/yext-alternatives.md): Yext alternatives for retail chains: what Yext really costs with the people who run it, what buyers miss, and seven alternatives with prices checked. ## Optional - [Everything in one file](https://ocally.co/llms-full.txt): every doc above, joined, for agents that prefer one fetch. - [Privacy Policy](https://ocally.co/privacy.md): Ocally's Privacy Policy, as published at https://ocally.co/privacy. - [Terms of Service](https://ocally.co/terms.md): Ocally's Terms of Service, as published at https://ocally.co/terms.