Connected retail experience strategy

We make the big retail idea executable.

ACHV helps brands turn ambitious physical and digital concepts into customer journeys, product requirements, technology ecosystems, and partner strategies teams can actually deliver.

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Customer
Product
Store
Partners
20+years across product, retail & hospitality
7,000+retail locations touched through Sonos work
0→1concepts shaped from vision through delivery

Retail experiences rarely fail because the ambition is too small.

They fail in the space between the idea, the operating reality, and the partners required to bring it to life.

How ACHV helps

From possibility
to a plan.

01

Envision

Define the future customer experience and create a shared picture that gives leadership and teams something concrete to build toward.

02

Translate

Turn the experience into journeys, use cases, user stories, content needs, operational considerations, and measurable priorities.

03

Assemble

Map the technology and service ecosystem, identify capability gaps, and find the right partners to close them.

04

Activate

Create the phased roadmap and connect business, design, technology, retail, marketing, and partners around delivery.

Selected work

In the trenches between stores and their digital experiences.

Experience spanning flagship environments, in-store platforms, kiosks, content systems, mobile products, and emerging hospitality concepts.

01

Retail technology & operations

Saatva

Managed the digital touchpoints inside Saatva's retail environment—connecting marketing and retail teams while guiding kiosk feature development and the use of Samsung display capabilities.

  • In-store kiosk product development
  • Content guidelines and governance
  • Retail, marketing and technology alignment
02

Global connected retail

Sonos

Helped shape connected retail experiences across flagship stores, international pop-ups, and a global retail footprint—bridging product thinking with the realities of physical environments.

  • Flagship and pop-up experience strategy
  • Interactive in-store product experiences
  • Scalable systems across 7,000+ locations
03

Concept vision & ecosystem

TSX Entertainment

Developed the conceptual customer journey and product stories for an ambitious Times Square food-and-beverage experience, then translated the vision into an ecosystem of capabilities and potential partners.

  • Future-state journey and user stories
  • Product and service ecosystem planning
  • Partner discovery and business development

Focused engagement

Connected Retail Experience Blueprint

A focused strategy engagement for brands entering physical retail, developing a new concept, or modernizing a fragmented store experience.

ACHV can lead directly or work as the experience and technology layer alongside retail development, real estate, architecture, agency, and implementation partners.

A clear path from concept to execution

  • 01Experience vision and principles
  • 02End-to-end customer journey
  • 03Priority use cases and user stories
  • 04Capability and technology map
  • 05Build, buy, and partner recommendations
  • 06Phased implementation roadmap

When to bring us in

Before the experience becomes a collection of disconnected decisions.

●A digital-first brand opening its first physical locations

●A retailer developing a new store concept or customer journey

●A hospitality brand connecting mobile, content, service, and place

●A technology provider translating capabilities into stronger retail solutions

About

Strategy grounded in what it takes to ship.

ACHV is led by Jeremy Wessely, a product and experience leader with more than two decades across retail, hospitality, entertainment, and consumer technology.

His work lives at the intersection of customer experience, product strategy, physical space, and partnership development—with experience spanning Sonos, Saatva, TSX Entertainment, EG Group, Peerspace, and Vimeo.

Start with the experience

Building something customers need to see, feel, and use?

Let's make the ecosystem behind it clear.

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