November wrap-up | Agentic innovation in action
By Jon Taylor on November 28, 2025Debenhams Group and Peak collaborate on cutting-edge AI to stay ahead of holiday demand.
As the Golden Quarter gets underway, Debenhams Group — home to PrettyLittleThing, boohoo, boohooMAN, Karen Millen and Debenhams — has introduced Peak’s brand new Agentic Merchandising solution to help manage sales, stock and pricing more effectively across its portfolio of brands.
By combining information on stock, pricing and promotions, it gives teams a clearer view of demand and performance, helping them respond quickly as shopping patterns shift through the season.
Having initially partnered with Peak back in June, the new agentic AI solution is the latest step in Debenhams Group’s investment in innovation to improve efficiency and agility. It can predict and guide decisions, and act on them autonomously, saving the merchandising team time each month and increasing the speed and accuracy of decision making across brands.
By providing teams with better insights and enabling more timely decisions, the approach is helping to strengthen planning and coordination across the Group in the run-up to Black Friday and the festive shopping season.
Get the full story and read the thoughts of Debenhams Group CEO, Dan Finley, here.
Industry spotlight
Meet the superhumans: the merchandiser
Merchandisers have always been the heartbeat of retail. They balance what to buy, how much to stock, where to send it and when to mark it down. For years, they’ve done it with static spreadsheets, disconnected systems and instinct‑based forecasts; the result was long days spent reacting to changes that had already happened.
With agentic AI, that’s changed: intelligent agents predict demand, optimize inventory and autonomously execute reorders and markdowns in real time. The result? Superhuman merchandisers who spend less time firefighting and more time on strategy, placing products in the right place, at the right time, at the right price.
Read the ‘meet the superhumans’ blog post
How will agentic AI transform retail pricing and inventory?
Agentic AI is redefining how retailers manage pricing, replenishment and inventory decision making. Traditional retail still relies heavily on spreadsheets, intuition and fixed planning cycles, where pricing, ordering and markdown decisions happen weekly or even monthly.
Agentic AI fundamentally changes this.
Instead of simply forecasting demand, it takes action in real time. It continuously monitors every SKU, predicts demand shifts, identifies risks such as overstock and stockouts, and can automatically recommend and execute orders and price adjustments. All of this happens within predefined commercial rules and governance frameworks.
Our Retail Director, Tom Summerfield, has shared what the agentic era means for the future of retail in his brand new thought leadership series on the UiPath blog. You can check out the first article now, with three more to come in the coming weeks.
Peak in the press
Peak named in the TechRound 100!
We’re proud to have been ranked at number 38 in the TechRound 100, a celebration of the UK’s most innovative technology companies.
For years, we’ve been helping global brands like Nike, Molson Coors, Marshalls and PepsiCo make smarter decisions around inventory, pricing and merchandising with AI. Our pre-built, configurable tools let businesses deploy intelligent agents fast, without huge in-house tech teams.
Now, with full UiPath integration, our AI agents are scaling even further across industries, helping retailers act faster, optimize revenue, and boost efficiency like never before. This recognition is a testament to our incredible team and the amazing partners we get to work with every day. Here’s to pushing the limits of AI even further!
Recent events
On-demand webinar: Transforming commercial pricing with agentic AI
This month we hosted our webinar, Transforming commercial pricing with agentic AI. Industry experts from Peak and UiPath explored how AI agents can remove manual bottlenecks and optimize B2B pricing decisions—improving speed, consistency and margin protection. Featuring a live product demo and real-world use cases, we showed how agentic AI can automatically predict, decide and act across the entire quote-to-order process.
Watch now on demand to explore how this new approach could reshape your pricing strategy and commercial performance.
Our trip to UiPath Bucharest! 🇷🇴
This month our teams from the UK and India joined the UiPath team in Bucharest for a Peak x UiPath integration week! It was a fantastic opportunity to collaborate, share ideas and strengthen connections all while exploring the vibrant city and enjoying some well-earned team moments along the way!
On our radar
What else caught our eye this month?
- Heading over to Germany for UiPath Fusion Munich
- Enjoying a brew with a view
- Solving the age-old retail pricing problem
- Sharing some interview tips and tricks with the University of Manchester Data Science Society
- Our reaction to the UK Autumn budget — what does it mean for retailers?
- Small businesses in UK & Ireland face barriers to AI adoption
- There’s a new Bobbi on the beat — and they’re powered by AI
How AI helps food companies cut waste
Consumers want cleaner, preservative‑free foods, but shorter shelf lives create a big challenge for supply chains. AI-driven demand forecasting and inventory management, including autonomous “agentic AI,” allows companies to dynamically optimize production, distribution, and stock levels. The result? Fresher products, less waste and smarter operations. Read more in this article from our Manufacturing Director, William Dutton, in Food Logistics.
More from Peak
Debenhams Group and Peak collaborate on cutting-edge AI to stay ahead of holiday demand
Meet the superhumans: how agentic AI is transforming the merchandiser’s day-to-day
