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QL2 knows the price. The trick is knowing the product.
A cheap rival can be an expensive illusion. QL2 collects competitor data, then tackles the less glamorous question that makes pricing intelligence useful: are these really the same thing?
The 13-Week Price Problem Datasembly Cut to Three - and the Retail Playbook Worth Copying
Retail brands were still sending people into stores with clipboards. Datasembly built a live map of the shelf, raised roughly $35 million, and joined SPINS - here is where its speed advantage works, and where it does not.
Mercura
Mercura is a Munich-based YC W25 startup building AI software that turns messy sales requests - emails, tender specs, phone calls - into structured, spec-compliant quotes and orders for industrial distributors and manufacturers. It reads unstructured inquiries, matches them to catalog products, prioritizes margin, and pushes the result straight into a customer's ERP.