# Gather AI Named One of Retail’s Top AI Leaders for 2026 **PITTSBURGH, PA – September 9, 2025** – Gather AI has been recognized by **AI in Retail (AiR)** as one of **Retail’s Top AI Leaders for 2026**. This flagship annual recognition highlights executives and companies shaping the future of retail through the application of artificial intelligence. The **Top AI Leaders list** is AiR’s signature program, serving as both an accolade and a platform to foster content, conversations, and community among the industry’s most innovative leaders. Honorees are selected for their ability to drive meaningful change in the retail sector by applying AI to solve critical operational challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes. “We are honored to be named among Retail’s Top AI Leaders,” said Sankalp Arora, Co-Founder and CEO at Gather AI. “This recognition reflects our mission to bring AI-driven intralogistics solutions to retailers and logistics providers, ensuring more efficient operations and more reliable on-time, in-full delivery.” As part of this recognition, Gather AI will participate in AiR’s growing network of leaders and join the broader conversation on how AI continues to transform retail and supply chain operations. The full list of Retail’s Top AI Leaders for 2026 can be viewed here: [https://rethink.industries/air/](https://rethink.industries/air/) For more information about Gather AI and its AI-powered intralogistics platform, visit [https://www.gather.ai](/content/site-root.html). ## Dock-to-Dock Intelligence: Physical AI for Complete Intralogistics Gather AI announced $40M in Series B funding led by Smith Point Capital Management (Keith Block, former Salesforce co-CEO) to expand its Physical AI platform from inventory intelligence to complete dock-to-dock operational intelligence for warehouses. The Pittsburgh-based company, founded in 2017, has proven its AI-powered computer vision approach delivers 99.9% inventory accuracy, 80% reduction in manual counting, and ROI in under six months for customers including GEODIS, NFI Industries, Kwik Trip, and Axon. The Series B funding expands this proven approach beyond inventory to digitize complete warehouse operations from receiving to shipping—tracking every product, every movement, across every warehouse. The platform combines three intelligence layers: Inventory Intelligence (proven foundation), Workflow Intelligence (expanding now to capture material flow that traditional WMS systems miss), and Predictive Intelligence (building next to prevent problems before they cascade). As Keith Block stated, Gather AI has built "a foundational intelligence layer for the modern supply chain" that addresses the billions in annual losses caused by the gap between digital system records and physical warehouse reality. The $40M will support global expansion to hundreds of additional facilities, platform development for workflow and predictive capabilities, and enterprise scaling to support company-wide deployments.