Market intelligence for independent outdoor retailers
Gearhound watches 20 high-risk products across 3 competitors and sends up to five verified actions every Monday — hold, reorder, investigate, or markdown.
$200 CAD · four weeks · no POS integration · every claim sourced
Recommendation: Review markdown
Illustrative data, from the real sample brief.
The Monday brief
Up to five recommendations, each with the market evidence, its source, and the observation time. Your team keeps the final pricing decision.
| Signal | Product | Evidence | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markdown risk new this week | Atomic Bent 100 · 180 cm |
| Review markdown |
| Demand signal new this week | Lange Shadow 120 MV · 26.5 |
| Hold price |
| Policy check carried over | Rossignol Sender Soul 92 · 176 cm |
| Verify listing |
Recommendation: Review markdown
Recommendation: Hold price
Recommendation: Verify listing
Sample only — product names and figures are illustrative, drawn from the pilot’s sample brief.
The problem, plainly
Four-week field test
Send your 20 highest-risk products — the SKUs where the most money or seasonal risk sits — plus rough inventory, recent sales, and 3 competitors. A spreadsheet is fine; there is no POS integration to install.
Gearhound records public price, promotion, stock, and exact size/variant availability, plus checks against the MAP you supply. Inputs older than 72 hours are excluded from recommendations.
Up to five verified recommendations arrive Monday at 06:00 — each with the evidence, the reasoning, and a one-click way to record what you decided.
Twenty products is deliberate: the focused scope is what lets a person verify every claim before it reaches you. Products are swappable as priorities change through the season.
Built for trust first
Each retailer’s inputs live in an isolated workspace. Nothing is pooled, resold, or visible to another shop — including the other pilots.
We work from your product list and public competitor pages. We never ask for customer or employee information, and there’s nothing to breach.
Gearhound recommends; your team decides. There is no integration that could change a price or place an order — by design, not by policy.
Each recommendation links the exact competitor pages and observation times behind it. Collection respects robots.txt and identifies itself.
How collection identifies itself is public: gearhound.org/bot.
Founding retailer pilot · limited by manual verification capacity
If the first month doesn’t produce a decision you act on, there is no reason to continue — and we’ll say so.
Start a 15-minute pilot conversation →Because they’re not 20 random products — they’re the SKUs or tight SKU families where your money and seasonal risk actually sit. The focused scope is what makes careful human verification possible at the founding price, and you can swap products as priorities change.
No — and that’s deliberate for the pilot. You send a spreadsheet of about 20 priority products with rough inventory and recent sales. Ten minutes of prep, no IT project.
Public product pages you supply or approve. Collection respects each site’s terms and robots.txt, identifies itself, and anything older than 72 hours is excluded from recommendations.
Never. Every brief is advisory. Accepting a recommendation records your decision so results can be tracked — the price change itself always happens in your own system, by your team.
We review the pilot together. If the briefs paid for themselves, we discuss continuing month-to-month. If not, you walk away and your data is deleted.
It covers the manual verification time so recommendations are trustworthy, and it keeps both sides serious. One good markdown call on a $700 ski typically covers it.
Founding pilot · a handful of shops
One email starts a conversation with a person — not an automated signup. If the fit isn’t right, you’ll know in fifteen minutes.