Adoption Gap Audit / Full package
For retail pricing and merchandising leaders with a live pricing or promotion program. Use 48 diagnostic indicators across six dimensions to identify constraints worth investigating, organize evidence from recent decisions, and decide what to examine next.
Includes the Diagnostic Workbook, 90-Day Corrective Moves Playbook, and 50-item RFP Bank. An individual-use digital package for your own internal business work.
Opens MadeThis checkout for the full package. After your order is confirmed, the purchase page provides download links for the two Excel workbooks and PDF playbook. This purchase does not include team licensing.
A self-assessment surfaces signals to investigate; it does not prove a single cause of financial performance.
Pricing Reality Check / Video overview
What is included
Assess the live program across six operational dimensions: Data Readiness, Decision Process, Incentives, Labor Capacity, Enforcement, Adoptability.
Organize priority areas, evidence to gather, ownership, and a practical review cadence for the next 90 days.
A supporting resource for evaluating requirements during a renewal or replacement decision.
Illustrative preview — fictional.
Sample wording from the included Diagnostic tab. No customer scores or findings are shown.
Statement 1
Item, cost, and price data are accurate enough that merchants do not routinely dispute them.
Illustrative preview — fictional.
Sample action from the included playbook; the preview contains no retailer-specific findings.
Adoption-Blocked / Days 1 to 30
Measure the gap between decided price and shelf price in 20 representative stores.
Illustrative preview — fictional.
Sample item from the included RFP Bank. Scoring cells are left blank.
11 / Explainability and Transparency
Show us, live, how the system explains one specific price recommendation to a category manager in plain language.
The included strong-answer guidance is internal; send vendors the indicator statements.
Kevin Sterneckert — former Gartner VP Research covering retail pricing and promotions; roughly two decades building those programs from the inside. GapSignal is vendor-agnostic.
For a live program
The free Pricing Reality Check uses eight diagnostic indicators focused on the Data Trust dimension behind one decision. It covers Data Trust only; the paid Adoption Gap Audit separately assesses Data Readiness, Decision Process, Incentives, Labor Capacity, Enforcement, and Adoptability. Its 48 diagnostic indicators, 90-day response playbook, and 50-item RFP Bank help structure what to investigate; the self-assessment does not establish financial causality.