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Dynamic Pricing

What price maximizes margin for this product?

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A real-world example

What price maximizes margin for this product?

Retailers reprice millions of SKUs manually or with basic rule engines (competitor price minus 5%), leaving $8-15B in annual margin on the table industry-wide (McKinsey). Price elasticity varies dramatically by product, customer segment, time of day, inventory level, and competitive context. A $0.50 price increase on a low-elasticity item yields pure margin, while the same increase on a high-elasticity item drives customers to competitors. Most pricing tools treat each SKU independently, missing the cross-product effects: raising the price of brand-name cereal by $0.30 shifts 12% of demand to the store brand.

How KumoRFM solves this

Relational intelligence built for retail and e-commerce data

Kumo connects products, competitor prices, transaction history, customer segments, inventory levels, and promotional calendars into a relational graph. The model learns the demand curve for each product in context: SKU-4310 at $3.99 in Store S-14 will sell 480 units this week, but at $4.29 it will sell 440 units with a net margin gain of $14,400. The graph captures cross-product substitution effects, so the model also predicts that the $0.30 increase will shift 35 units to the competing SKU-4311, netting $11,200 in combined margin gain.

From data to predictions

See the full pipeline in action

Connect your tables, write a PQL query, and get predictions with built-in explainability — all in minutes, not months.

1

Your data

The relational tables Kumo learns from

PRODUCTS

sku_idnamecategorycurrent_priceunit_costcompetitor_price
SKU-4310Casa Crunch Chips 12ozSnacks$3.99$1.40$4.19
SKU-4311Store Brand Chips 12ozSnacks$2.99$0.90N/A
SKU-4520Premium Coffee Beans 1lbBeverages$12.99$6.50$13.49

PRICE_HISTORY

sku_idstore_idpriceunits_solddate
SKU-4310S-14$3.99682025-09-22
SKU-4310S-14$3.49952025-09-15
SKU-4310S-14$4.29582025-09-08

INVENTORY

sku_idstore_idon_handdays_of_supplynext_delivery
SKU-4310S-145207.62025-09-29
SKU-4311S-1434012.12025-10-02
SKU-4520S-14854.22025-09-27

CUSTOMER_SEGMENTS

segmentprice_sensitivityavg_basketshare_of_traffic
Value SeekersHigh$3835%
ConvenienceLow$6225%
PremiumVery Low$9515%
2

Write your PQL query

Describe what to predict in 2–3 lines — Kumo handles the rest

PQL
PREDICT SUM(PRICE_HISTORY.UNITS_SOLD, 0, 7, days)
FOR EACH PRODUCTS.SKU_ID, STORES.STORE_ID
ASSUMING PRODUCTS.CURRENT_PRICE = 4.29
3

Prediction output

Every entity gets a score, updated continuously

SKU_IDSTORE_IDOPTIMAL_PRICEPRED_UNITSPRED_MARGINVS_CURRENT
SKU-4310S-14$4.29440$1,271.60+$142.00
SKU-4311S-14$2.99375$408.75+$31.50
SKU-4520S-14$13.4978$545.22+$38.50
4

Understand why

Every prediction includes feature attributions — no black boxes

SKU-4310 (Casa Crunch Chips) at Store S-14

Predicted: Optimal price $4.29, 440 units, +$142 margin vs current

Top contributing features

Price elasticity for this SKU

-0.35 (low)

28% attribution

Competitor price gap

$0.10 below comp.

24% attribution

Inventory level (sufficient stock)

7.6 days supply

19% attribution

Cross-product substitution rate

8% to store brand

17% attribution

Customer segment mix (low sensitivity)

40% Conv+Prem

12% attribution

Feature attributions are computed automatically for every prediction. No separate tooling required. Learn more about Kumo explainability

Bottom line: Increase gross margin by 3-8% across the assortment without sacrificing volume, adding $15-40M in annual profit for a $5B revenue retailer.

Topics covered

dynamic pricing AI retailprice optimization machine learningmargin maximizationcompetitive pricing AIgraph neural network pricingKumoRFMrelational deep learning pricinge-commerce pricing analyticsprice elasticity predictionretail pricing optimization

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