For retail operations directors
500 stores. One initiative.
How many locations are actually on track?
In Parallel captures every rollout decision — owner, deadline, store scope — and turns them into a living execution plan that updates itself. Start free.
The coordination tax
Initiatives decided in HQ meetings.
How many reach the field on time?
At scale, operational initiatives that used to cascade naturally break down. Rollout decisions scatter across Teams, email, spreadsheets, and memory.
40%
of corporate retail initiatives are fully executed at store level within the planned timeline.
The remaining 60% stall, drift, or arrive late — not because stores resist, but because the decisions never propagated clearly from HQ to the field.
McKinsey Retail Operations
4 teams, 4 spreadsheets
Merchandising, training, IT, and field ops each track their piece of the rollout in different tools. Nobody has a single view of where the initiative actually stands.
Invisible field drift
A region falls behind on training deployment. HQ doesn’t know until the quarterly review. By then, three more waves have launched on a broken foundation.
Decisions lost in transit
Rollout timelines agreed in the ops planning meeting never reach store managers intact. By the time field teams hear about it, the deadline has already shifted twice.
How In Parallel helps
From HQ decisions to field execution.
One living plan.
01
Initiative decision capture
In Parallel joins your operational planning meetings, cross-functional syncs, and store manager calls — captures every rollout decision, owner, and deadline. No manual notes. No chasing.
02
Living rollout plan
Your rollout plan updates itself from meeting signals. When a merchandising decision affects the IT deployment timeline, it shows up immediately — not a fortnight later in a status deck.
03
Execution drift detection by region and store
Know when a region falls behind on rollout milestones before it becomes a board-level escalation. In Parallel surfaces the gap between HQ decisions and field execution automatically.
04
Executive reporting
Stop spending a full day assembling rollout status from 5 regional spreadsheets. Execution health data is always current because it comes from the meetings where decisions actually happen.
Trusted by operations teams
A multi-site retailer cut rollout status assembly from a full day to 30 minutes.
“We used to spend Monday mornings ringing regional managers to piece together rollout status. Now we open In Parallel and it’s already there.”
60%
faster rollout visibility
1 day
saved per week on status assembly
30 min
rollout reporting (was a full day)
<3 wks
typical time to value
Side by side
What changes when rollout decisions stop disappearing.
Without In Parallel
- Monday mornings reconstructing last week's rollout decisions from email threads
- Regional spreadsheets with conflicting status updates
- HQ initiatives that never reach the field in time
- Store managers learning about changes from colleagues, not leadership
- Drift discovered at the quarterly review — months too late
With In Parallel
- Every rollout decision captured with owner, deadline, and store scope
- One living plan across merchandising, training, IT, and field teams
- Regional execution gaps surfaced before they compound
- Store managers aligned on the same timeline as HQ
- Drift detected before it affects the next wave of stores
Built for retail operations
Your stack. Your meetings. Zero behaviour change.
In Parallel layers onto what you already use. Nobody downloads an app. Nobody changes their workflow. It just works.
Works with your stack
Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Slack. In Parallel layers onto what you already use — no migration, no new tools for field teams to learn.
SOC 2 + GDPR
Enterprise security your board expects. EU data residency available. Audit reports on request.
Per-seat pricing
€69 per active seat per month, with annual and volume discounts down to €49. Workspaces are free. Passive users aren’t invoiced. 10 meetings free to try, no credit card.
Zero behaviour change
In Parallel joins your existing meetings. Nobody downloads an app. Nobody changes their workflow. It just works.
Cross-functional by design
Not a merchandising tool. Not an IT tool. A coordination layer that works across every team the operations director oversees.
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See every rollout decision captured.
10 meetings free, no credit card. Try it on your next ops planning call. See every decision with an owner and a deadline. Then decide if you want the Living Plan.