Focal Systems is helping retailers tackle their biggest challenges through deep learning and computer vision.

Our Mission

To Automate Brick and Mortar Retail.

Traditional retail operators have incredibly challenging jobs. Managing thousands of skus, employees and stores while facing rising labor costs and a battle between online and in-store has squeezed operating margins.

A Focal retailer operates smarter stores through AI enabled decision making that drive optimized tasks and actionable alerts to streamline operations and deliver an improved customer experience.

Focal is working with leading retailers around the world to implement AI solutions that deliver financial returns and happy customers.

Our Story

Solving Multi-Billion Dollar Problems in Brick and Mortar Retail.

Focal was founded in 2015 to solve the biggest problems retailers struggle with every day. If this is the age of automation, retailers are likely to have the most to gain, having 3% net margins and 13% labor over sales. Focal left Stanford and went through Y Combinator’s class of W16. Since then they have raised over $10m and scaled their solutions to three continents, hundreds of stores, with thousands of cameras deployed.

Our team is a carefully selected group of retail operations and AI experts that together has designed the next generation of operating system for brick and mortar retail that leverages state-of-the-art AI and retail best practices to automate and optimize all parts of retailer’s retail organization.