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Intelligent Retail and the art of selling the last one
An island outfitter with 82,000 SKUs. An equestrian shop buried in stock updates. Intelligent Retail has built a business around the unglamorous work that lets independent retailers keep selling.
MADIC UK went from fixing pumps to running the shop
The former pump-maintenance business now connects tills, stockrooms and head offices. Its next test is making the forecourt work just as hard while drivers wait for a charge.
Cedric Chin
Cedric Chin is a Malaysian-born operator, writer, and founder of Commoncog - a paid newsletter serving 9,000+ investors and operators weekly. He bootstrapped a restaurant point-of-sale system (EPOS) from zero to $4.5M ARR in two years before its acquisition by Ant Financial, doubled a SaaS company's ARR in 8 months through repositioning, founded NUS Hackers (Singapore's most influential university hacker club), and now writes long-form research on accelerating business expertise, tacit knowledge, and the mental models shared by experienced operators.