About
Physical retail deserves better tools.
Not dashboards. Not reports. The loop that lets a store see the floor, act on it, and prove what worked, at zone level, without replacing the people inside it.
Where this started
I didn't come from retail. That turned out to be the point.
Benny Lauwers, Founder
Before founding Storalytic, I spent years in physical environments where technology has to work for people who have a job to do: warehouses, factories, service operations. Places where complexity, behaviour and the environment itself decide whether a system survives contact with reality.
In those places you measure everything. Where things move, where they stall, where the time goes. Then I started walking retail floors and found the opposite. People doing heroic work to keep the day going. Teams deciding on instinct. Friction everywhere, mostly unnoticed because it had become normal. And almost none of it measured.
Someone who had spent a career in retail might have accepted that as simply how stores are. I could not. Online, every click is counted. On a shop floor, every second of attention disappears. That is not a small gap. It is a structural one.
"E-commerce did not get smarter than physical retail. It just got measured first."
Benny Lauwers
Founder, Storalytic
Also authored
The Good, The Bad & The Practical
A book about making technology succeed in the physical world. Not in slides. Not in labs. With real people and real constraints.
What we believe
Three things we will not compromise on.
01
Behaviour before data
More dashboards do not make stores smarter. What matters is whether the right person sees the right signal at the right moment. Everything we build starts from operational reality, not from what is technically measurable.
02
Patterns, not people
No face recognition and no identity. Storalytic never knows who anyone is.
How Storalytic handles privacy and security →03
Selectivity is a feature
We work with stores that are ready to act on what they see, not just observe it. That means we sometimes recommend starting smaller, or waiting. Not every moment is the right moment, and being honest about that is part of how we build trust.
The company
Built in Belgium. Designed for European retail.
Storalytic is a Belgian company. That shapes how we think about privacy, trust, and the pace at which retail adopts new infrastructure.
Processing video inside the store is not a technical preference. It is a response to European retail reality, and it keeps the infrastructure simple enough for a store manager to understand without a slide deck. The portal, the analysis and Allen run in the cloud.
2024
Founded
Belgium
Headquartered in Koksijde
Deployed in live Belgian stores
Storalytic has been deployed in live Belgian retail environments: real stores, real cameras, real behavioural data on real shop floors. Not a lab, not a simulation.
How to judge us
The founder
Two decades making technology work in warehouses, factories and service operations, physical environments where people have a job to do.
The demo
The whole platform, working end to end on a demo store. Ask for access and we will take you through it.
If this framing resonates, we should talk.
We show you the platform in the context of a store like yours, and we tell you honestly whether the timing makes sense.
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