Building little AI agents to handle my retail planning grunt work — who else is doing this?

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A retail planner describes using AI agents built with Claude and ChatGPT to automate tasks like forecasting and reporting, improving efficiency in their daily work.

Not gonna lie, retail planning used to be 80% spreadsheets and gut feel — that's shifted faster than I expected. I work as a merchandiser/planner/analyst, and AI has quietly worked its way into pretty much every part of my day now. For forecasting, instead of just eyeballing last year's numbers, I'll run things past AI to catch demand and trend patterns I might've missed, then use that to sanity-check my own calls. Reporting used to eat hours of my week — now a chunk of the cleanup and summarizing happens on its own, which frees me up to actually think about the "why" instead of just wrangling spreadsheets. The part I'm most into lately: building small agents with Claude/ChatGPT that pull reports and keep tabs on trends and prices without me having to babysit them all day. I know I'm only scratching the surface of what's possible here. So — anyone else quietly rebuilding how they work behind the scenes? What's actually moved the needle for you, and what turned out to be all hype? Curious how deep this goes for other people in similar seats.
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