Independent retail industry expertise

Accelerate growth, drive operational effectiveness, and achieve your strategic transformational goals by hiring independent consultants on demand.

Brands and retailers achieve their strategic business goals with independent experts

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Delivering delightful omni-channel experiences

Attract and engage customers by seamlessly blending digital and physical channels to build trust and drive loyalty

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Harnessing the power of emerging technologies

Fuel sustainable growth by exploring and quickly implementing potential applications for artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality

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Building data-driven strategies to balance growth and profitability

Unlock the power of vast data available across the company to identify new growth opportunities while optimizing operations across the value chain

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Be transparent

Helping clients and experts reach the next level of growth requires transparency, honesty, and empathy. We aim to make this the cornerstone for how we interact with one another and our community.

Our network of independent retail sector experts by the numbers

Access leading experts to address bandwidth and expertise gaps across multiple teams

12-15

Average years of work experience of our experts

Lean on the deep experience of our network built over the years working at top firms.

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How our independent experts help automotive companies

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How our experts
help retail companies shape the future

Elevate customer experience

Onboard expertise to develop and execute omnichannel strategies that meet consumers expectations and demand.

Fortify supply chains

Gather your data and let experts with deep industry expertise to reduce waste, assess supply chain bottlenecks, and more.

Power growth

Respond to evolving customer expectations with market research and corporate strategy expertise to power growth and enable innovation.

Capture future value

Engage experts to identify new strategic partnerships or execute M&A transactions.

Independent expertise to uncover customer insights

Primary Research
Customer/
Vendor Calls
Survey Work
Voice of Customer
Secondary Research
Benchmarking
Competitive Landscape
Market Mapping
Ongoing Research Support
Industry Expertise

A few
of our
top-rated experts

John F

John F

Dynamic and creative data-driven marketing leader. Builder and redeemer of great brands.

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Market Analysis / Research, Go-to-market Strategy, Digital Marketing / Advertising, Data Visualization / Reports, Market Mapping
Retail, Consumer Goods, Agriculture
Toopan B

Toopan B

Retail and Consumer Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation Consultant.

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Sectors
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Business Unit Strategy, Change Management / Org Design, Geographic Expansion, Go-to-market Strategy
Retail, Consumer Goods, Social & Public Sector
Gretchen A

Gretchen A

Change management expert: Helping Fortune 500 clients create consultant-level change management capability in-house.

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Sectors
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Change Management / Org Design, M&A Support, Organizational Design, ERP Implementation, Communications
Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Technology
Michael F

Michael F

B2B CMO | SaaS, Fintech, Blockchain & Crypto, SaaS | Marketing strategy, growth strategy, content marketing strategy

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Sectors
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Product Strategy, Go-to-market Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Primary Research, Brand Strategy, Growth Marketing
Retail, Financial Services, Business Services, Technology, Consumer Goods
Chetan B

Chetan B

Over 20+ years in Digital Marketing, Web Design & Development, Social Media, E-Commerce, and General Management

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Sectors
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Business Unit Strategy, Product Strategy, Go-to-market Strategy, Digital Marketing / Advertising, Digital Experience Design
Consumer Goods, Retail

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Why leading brands and retailers choose Graphite

Driving superior performance with the right expertise at the right time

Right-sized

Onboard 1 or multiple independent consultants on demand to address bandwidth constraints or specific skills gaps. Skip unnecessarily large project teams.

Flexible

Skip locked-in contracts — scale teams up or down with independent experts. Pay only for work delivered.

Cost-effective

Directly assess the experts who will work on your projects. Get the same expertise without the brand name consulting firm pricing.

Our Process

1

Post your project

Your dedicated account team collaboratively identifies your project-based skills needs.

Receive guidance to tailor your project posting and on ideal pay rates
Attract concise proposals from the most relevant independent experts
Speedy proposals evaluations powered by our proprietary AI model that identifies the best matches based on experts' skills, pricing, prior performance on Graphite projects, and more
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Interview

We diligently vet and present 2-4 curated independent experts.

Compare experts by their depth and breadth of expertise, location, pay rate expectations, and in-platform reviews
Evaluate experts with ease using in-platform messaging and video conferencing
Build right-sized teams with one or a select few experts
Graphite connects enterprise leaders with 2-4 curated independent experts and the evaluation process is powered within the Graphite platform
3

Onboard experts to your teams

Your account team negotiates rates and handles onboarding steps established in the Master Service Agreement.

Get worker classification, and background check support for experts as needed
Rely on Graphite as the employer of record
Connect seamlessly with your dedicated purpose-built customer success team
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Setting your projects up for success

Your dedicated customer success team brings proactive quantitative and qualitative insights to set your projects with independent experts up for successful outcomes.

Participate in onboarding calls alignment amongst all stakeholders at project kickoff
Get timely and consistent check-ins to ensure projects are on track
Share your strategic talent needs and broader feedback in quarterly business reviews, so we can proactively ensure you always have the right independent talent on your teams
Project check-ins powered within Graphite

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A few of our top-rated experts

Sara A

Strategy consultant with experience in growth strategy and innovation. Industry expertise in Retail, CPG and Food

Tim P

Data scientist and PM with extensive startup experience, primarily focus on e-commerce and behavior analytics.

Toopan B

Retail and consumer strategy, innovation, and transformation consultant

Luke S

Independent management consultant with top-tier experience (8 years at Bain & Company), specializing in CPG and Retail

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