CPG Intelligence Stack

Proda

How Cynthia plugs into Proda's data — DTC, retail, distributor, competitive — and turns it into one daily AI brief that tells the operator what to do today.
April 2026 · Data System Overview · For Jeff & Matthew
Cynthia.

One brain. All the data. A brief every morning.

We connect to every system Proda already uses (Shopify, Klaviyo, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Meta & Google Ads), ingest weekly retail exports from Sprouts as soon as they exist, and run our own scrapers on Amazon, store locators, and competitor ads to fill in what nobody hands you.

All of it lands in one place. Every morning at 6am an AI reads the last 7 days of everything and writes a one-page brief: top 3 actions to take today, ranked by revenue impact, plus what's working, what's breaking, and which decisions you owe an answer on.

Proda is the perfect first brand to do this on — newly launched, single retail partner, clean digital stack, no legacy systems. We can be live with daily briefs in two weeks.

What you get out of this A 1-page daily brief in your inbox. A read-only dashboard your team can open. A closed-loop action ledger that gets smarter every week. We replace the BI tool + the fractional analyst with one decision layer.
7
Flavors Live
1
National Retailer
3
Online Channels
10g
Protein / Can
Apr 1
Launched 2026
$3.49
Retail SRP

Protein-infused soda. Co-founded by Matthew Postlethwaite and Jeff Church. Exclusive national launch with Sprouts Farmers Market. Online: drinkproda.com (Shopify), Amazon, TikTok Shop. Built on Shopify with Klaviyo email integration. Active on Instagram (@drinkproda) and TikTok (@drinkproda). Two flavors (Shirley Temple, Root Beer) currently sold out — first interesting data signal we'd already be tracking.

Three layers of data, stitched into one brain

There is no single "perfect API" for CPG. Edge comes from stitching imperfect sources together. We organize them in 3 layers — each layer requires different effort to access, and each layer adds a different kind of intelligence.

LAYER 1
Clean APIs — we plug in directly
Real APIs, stable docs. Built once, reused forever. This is the easy 40% that every other tool stops at.

For Proda, this is mostly already in place — you're on Shopify, Klaviyo, presumably Meta & Google for ads, and Amazon as a 3P seller. We connect with credentials you already have. No new tools to buy.

LAYER 2
Weekly CSV / portal exports — client-side ingest
Retail and distributor systems don't have APIs. We give you a Drive folder; weekly exports drop in; we parse on receipt.

For Proda right now, this is mostly Sprouts vendor portal exports and (eventually) UNFI / KeHE distributor reports. Sprouts gives store-level sell-through and on-hand. This is the layer that tells you which stores are hot and which are about to delist.

LAYER 3
Scraping — our edge nobody else has
We run our own intelligence layer on top — watching Amazon listings, retailer store locators, Meta's ad library, review platforms, and search demand.

For Proda, this is the quiet superpower. We watch Olipop, Poppi, Recess, OWYN, and any other competitor we name — daily Amazon BSR, price changes, new flavor launches, ad spend trends. We track Sprouts store-locator footprint to know exactly when Proda is gaining or losing distribution. None of this is in any dashboard you can buy.

What we connect first

Each row is a system Proda is (or could be) using today. "Status" is what we need from you to turn it on.

Source What we get Status
Shopify
drinkproda.com
Every order, customer, product, inventory level, refund. Real-time via webhooks. Need admin token
Klaviyo
visible on site
Email + SMS revenue, list growth, flow performance. Identity-resolved customer LTV. Need API key
Meta Ads Spend, ROAS, audience, creative performance, ad-set level breakouts. Need account access
Google Ads Spend, conversions, keyword performance, search-term reports, Performance Max breakouts. Need account access
Amazon Seller Central Order data, inventory by FBA warehouse, Amazon Ads spend, promotions. Direct connection. Need seller approval
TikTok Shop Sales, ad spend, creator content performance, video-to-cart conversion. Need shop access
GA4 Web behavior, attribution, funnel drop-off. Optional — Klaviyo + Meta usually enough. Optional
3PL
ShipBob/ShipMonk/etc.
DTC inventory levels, fulfillment cost per order, regional shipping speed. Tell us which 3PL
Why this is fast for Proda You're a brand-new launch on a clean digital stack. There's no legacy ERP, no NetSuite tangle, no decade of broken integrations. Layer 1 is days of work, not months.

The retail data that has no API

Retail and distributor systems don't expose APIs the way digital tools do. The good news: most of what you need is already available to you for free as a vendor — it's just locked inside portals nobody has time to log into every week. We set up a shared folder + a dedicated email address; whoever pulls the exports drops them in; we handle the rest. Below: what each source actually unlocks for Proda, and the questions you'll be able to answer with it.

SOURCE 01
Sprouts Vendor Portal
FREE · Already yours as a vendor

What it gives you: Store-by-store sell-through, on-hand inventory at each store, regional velocity rankings, promo lift, item-level performance, week-over-week trends.

Once we're plugged in, you can answer:

  • Which of the ~400 Sprouts stores are your top 50 — and where do they cluster geographically?
  • Which stores went out of stock this week, and how much sell-through did you lose before replenishment?
  • Which DMAs are over-indexing? Where should Matthew prioritize in-store demos, sampling, and field marketing?
  • Are reorders accelerating week-over-week, or flattening? Early warning on velocity decay before Sprouts considers cutting facings.
  • For any promo or buy-down: was it actually profitable per store, or did you just pull volume forward?
  • Which flavors have the strongest sell-through in which regions — feeds straight into production planning and the next flavor launch order.

Bottom line: with Sprouts data flowing daily, you stop reacting to last month's velocity report and start managing each store like its own P&L.

SOURCE 02
Amazon Vendor & Seller Reports
FREE · Included with your Amazon account

What it gives you: Detailed sales by ASIN, search-term to conversion mapping, Subscribe-and-Save behavior, Buy Box win rate, detail-page views, replenishment forecasts.

Once we're plugged in, you can answer:

  • Which Amazon search queries actually convert into Proda sales — vs just driving impressions you're paying for?
  • What's your real Subscribe-and-Save penetration? That's the metric that predicts long-term Amazon revenue.
  • Are you losing the Buy Box on any SKU to a 3P reseller? That's silent margin leakage.
  • Which detail pages have weak view-to-cart conversion — meaning the listing or imagery needs work?
SOURCE 03
UNFI Insights / KeHE CONNECT
FREE · Only if/when you ship through them

What it gives you: Distributor-level sell-in vs sell-through, by retailer chain, by region, by week.

Once we're plugged in, you can answer:

  • Where is your inventory sitting in distributor warehouses unsold? (Write-down risk.)
  • Which retailers placed orders but aren't selling through — predicts which doors are at risk of being cut.
  • When you expand beyond Sprouts, this becomes essential to manage cash and avoid getting stuck with stale inventory at distributors.
SOURCE 04
SPINS / Nielsen / Circana
PAID · $20K–$100K/yr · Skip for now

What it gives you: Category-level sales across measured retail, market share, head-to-head competitor benchmarking.

Once we're plugged in, you can answer:

  • What's the total $ size of the protein soda + functional beverage category by region?
  • Your share vs Olipop, Poppi, OWYN, Recess across measured retail.
  • Honest take: most useful when you're $10M+ in revenue and pitching new retailers. For a brand at Proda's stage, the scraping layer below covers most of what SPINS would tell you. Skip until a buyer asks for the report.
SOURCE 05
Future Retailers (Whole Foods, Target, Costco, etc.)
FREE · Added as you expand

What it gives you: Same store-level intelligence as Sprouts, multiplied across every retailer you launch into.

Once we're plugged in, you can answer:

  • Cross-retailer comparison: "Cherry Lime is your #1 at Sprouts but #4 at Whole Foods — why?"
  • Which retailer profile (natural-channel, conventional, club, mass) is the right next move based on actual velocity patterns, not gut feel.
  • Negotiation leverage on every category review — you walk in with their own numbers organized better than they have them.
If we had Sprouts data flowing today, here's what next Monday's brief looks like "47 stores went OOS on Cherry Lime in the Pacific region this week — that's $9K of lost retail sell-through and a feature window expiring Friday. Your top-30 stores by velocity are clustered in CA, AZ, CO, TX. Stores in the Mid-Atlantic region are running 38% below the national average — recommend in-store sampling push there, not Northeast (Northeast is already trending up unaided)."

The intelligence nobody else gives you

Your competitors are publishing more about themselves than they realize — on Amazon, in Meta's ad library, in retailer store locators, in review platforms, in search behavior. We watch all of it, every day, and route the meaningful changes into your morning brief. None of this requires permission from anyone.

SOURCE 06
Amazon listings — Proda + 5 competitors
FREE · Daily

What we capture: Best Seller Rank, price changes, review velocity, A+ content updates, Q&A activity, image and video changes — for every competitor SKU you name.

What you can now answer:

  • "Olipop dropped Cherry Vanilla price by 12% on Tuesday — should we match?"
  • "Poppi's review velocity tripled this month — what changed in their listing?"
  • "Our Cherry Lime BSR slipped 7 spots after the Olipop launch — how much real demand are we bleeding?"
SOURCE 07
Sprouts store locator
FREE · Weekly

What we capture: Exactly which Sprouts stores carry Proda, week over week. Net new doors, lost doors, regional concentration.

What you can now answer:

  • "How many of the 400+ Sprouts stores actually have us this week vs last week?"
  • "Which regions are gaining distribution and which are quietly losing it?"
  • "Are we expanding store count alongside velocity — or is one outpacing the other?"

This is a question Sprouts can't easily answer for you in real time. We can.

SOURCE 08
Meta Ad Library — competitor spend & creative
FREE · Daily

What we capture: Every active ad Olipop, Poppi, OWYN, Recess (or any competitor you name) is running on Meta. Active-ad count over time as a proxy for spend velocity. Creative themes, audience signals, what they're testing.

What you can now answer:

  • "Which competitor just tripled their ad spend — and on which message?"
  • "What creative angles are competitors testing right now that we should learn from?"
  • "Are competitors going hard on the protein angle, the sugar-free angle, the lifestyle angle? What's the white space we own?"
SOURCE 09
Amazon reviews — Proda + competitors
FREE · Weekly

What we capture: Every new review on your SKUs and competitor SKUs. Sentiment, complaint themes, flavor preferences. AI-summarized into "what people love and hate" by brand.

What you can now answer:

  • "What complaints are showing up on Olipop that we don't have — what's our positioning angle?"
  • "Which Proda flavors are getting glowing reviews vs lukewarm — predicts retail velocity 4-6 weeks before it shows up in sell-through."
  • "Are people comparing us to a specific competitor in their reviews? That tells us who our real frame-of-reference is."
SOURCE 10
Search demand — category & brand
FREE · Weekly

What we capture: Search volume for category terms ("protein soda," "sugar free soda," "healthy soda"), competitor brand terms, your own branded search velocity.

What you can now answer:

  • "Is the protein-soda category itself growing — or just shifting share between brands?"
  • "How fast is unaided demand for 'Proda' growing? Are PR moments and ads creating real branded interest?"
  • "Which competitor brand terms are spiking — early signal of a marketing push we should be aware of?"
SOURCE 11
Instagram + TikTok mentions
FREE · Weekly

What we capture: Organic mentions of Proda (and competitors) across Instagram and TikTok. UGC volume, creator pickup, viral content tracking, sentiment.

What you can now answer:

  • "Which creator just posted about Proda unprompted — and is that worth a partnership outreach?"
  • "Did the Sprouts launch generate the social buzz we expected?"
  • "Which competitor is winning on TikTok creator content — is there a creator playbook to copy?"
Why this matters most when you're new Olipop, Poppi, OWYN, Recess all have years of head-start. Watching what they do publicly — pricing moves, flavor launches, ad spend velocity, review themes — is more valuable to a 2-month-old brand than a 5-year-old one. This intelligence layer alone could justify the engagement.

11 sources, one brain, one brief

Every source above lands in a single intelligence layer that the AI reads from each morning. You don't see the plumbing — you see one read-only dashboard your team can open and a 1-page brief in your inbox at 6am.

The reason this works: with everything in one place, the brain can ask cross-source questions instantly. Things like "Which Sprouts regions are gaining store distribution while the matching DTC region has a weak repeat rate?" is a 5-system question — answered in one paragraph in your morning brief.

You'll never look at 11 dashboards again The point isn't to give you more data — you already drown in it. The point is to give you fewer, better decisions. One screen. One brief. One set of recommended actions, ranked by revenue impact.

A 1-page brief in your inbox at 6am

This is what an actual brief for Proda looks like (illustrative — values shown are examples of the kinds of insights the brain produces once data is flowing).

PRODA — DAILY BRIEF — WED MAY 13 🔥 TOP 3 ACTIONS (ranked by est. revenue impact) 1. Cherry Lime is OUT OF STOCK at 47 of 312 Sprouts stores stocking Proda. These stores were averaging 14 units/wk — you're losing ~$2,300/wk in retail sell-through right now. ETA from 3PL says inventory ships Friday. → Action: alert Sprouts replenishment team Tuesday so feature window isn't wasted when stock arrives. 2. Meta ad set "TOFU-Wellness-CA" ROAS dropped 3.1x → 1.2x over last 6 days. Creative fatigue — last refresh 27 days ago. The "morning energy" creative variant is at 4.4x ROAS in "TOFU-Wellness-NY" with the same audience shape. → Action: pause CA, duplicate NY creative to CA. Est. spend reallocation: $4,200/mo at current pace. 3. Olipop launched a "Cherry Vanilla" flavor on Amazon 9 days ago. Already at #4 in subcategory. Their Meta active-ad count tripled in the last week. Your Cherry Lime BSR slipped from #11 to #18 in the same window. → Action: bid up on "olipop alternative" + "olipop cherry" branded keywords this week. Test Amazon DSP retargeting on their detail-page visitors with $2K weekly budget. 📈 WHAT'S WORKING - DTC repeat rate up to 28% (was 22% last month) - TikTok Shop revenue +41% WoW — driven by Lemon Lime UGC - Sprouts Northeast region: SKU velocity +18% WoW ⚠️ WHAT'S NOT - Klaviyo "30-day-after-first-order" flow open rate dropped to 12% - Amazon BSR slipped on 3 of 7 SKUs after Olipop launch - Strawberry Lemonade margin down 6% — promo overlap 💰 SNAPSHOT (7-day rolling) - GMV: $X (Y% vs prior 7) - Blended ROAS: 2.8x | DTC margin: 41% - Sprouts stores stocked: 297 / 312 (95.2%) - Inventory days-of-supply: 38 (target 30-60) 🎯 ASKS FOR YOU - Approve Amazon DSP $2K/wk Olipop retargeting? [YES] [NO] - Pause TOFU-Wellness-CA Meta ad set? [YES] [NO]

Every action has buttons (Did it / Declined / Snooze). After 7 days the brief reports the outcome — what you did, what worked, what didn't. That feedback teaches the brain which kinds of recommendations move the needle for your brand specifically. Year 2 is dramatically smarter than year 1.

The kickoff checklist

Fastest way to be live with daily briefs in 14 days. None of these require buying anything new.

01
Shopify admin accessCustom app token (read-only on orders, products, customers, inventory) for drinkproda.com.
02
Klaviyo API keyRead-only key from Klaviyo account settings.
03
Meta Ads accessAdd us as analyst on the Proda ad account (or grant access via Business Manager).
04
Google Ads accessRead-only access on the MCC or direct account.
05
Amazon Seller CentralDeveloper access authorization — Amazon's approval flow takes ~3 days, so we kick this off day 0.
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TikTok Shop accessSeller account access OR API credentials if available.
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3PL name + portal accessTell us who fulfills DTC. We'll handle integration based on which 3PL.
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Top 3-5 competitors to watchOur recommendation: Olipop, Poppi, Recess, OWYN. You override with whoever you actually compete with for the same shelf and same shopper.
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One success metricWhat does "this is useful" look like to you and Matthew at end of week 2? Examples: "find 3 actions we didn't already know," "save us $X in misallocated ad spend," "tell us which Sprouts regions to lean into."
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Sprouts portal credentials (optional, week 3)If we get these, we automate the weekly export. If not, anyone on your team can drop the CSV into our Drive folder and our parser handles it.

Brand-new launches have an unfair advantage

01
Clean digital stack, no legacy
No NetSuite. No legacy CRM. No decade of broken integrations. Shopify + Klaviyo + Amazon + TikTok Shop is the cleanest possible starting point. We can light up Layer 1 in days, not months.
02
Single national retailer
An exclusive Sprouts launch is rare and valuable. One retailer = one portal to learn, one playbook to perfect. By the time you expand to Whole Foods or Target, the intelligence pipeline is already proven on Proda.
03
Competitive intelligence is most valuable when you're new
Olipop, Poppi, OWYN, Recess have years of head-start. Watching what they do — pricing moves, flavor launches, ad spend velocity, review themes — is more valuable to a 2-month-old brand than a 5-year-old one. Layer 3 alone could justify the engagement.
04
Two SKUs are already sold out
Shirley Temple and Root Beer are sold out on the DTC site as of today. That's a signal — demand exceeded forecast on those flavors. The brief would already be flagging it: "lost demand estimate, recommend prioritizing in next production run."