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This post was co-written with Cyril Ovely from Vxceed.
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies face a critical challenge in emerging economies: how to effectively retain revenue and grow customer loyalty at scale. Although these companies invest 15–20% of their revenue in trade promotions and retailer loyalty programs, the uptake of these programs has historically remained below 30% due to their complexity and the challenge of addressing individual retailer needs.
Vxceed’s Lighthouse platform tackles this challenge with its innovative loyalty module. Trusted by leading global CPG brands across emerging economies in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Lighthouse provides field sales teams with a cutting-edge, AI-driven toolkit. This solution uses generative AI to create personalized sales pitches based on individual retailer data and trends, helping field representatives effectively engage retailers, address common objections, and boost program adoption.
In this post, we show how Vxceed used Amazon Bedrock to develop this AI-powered multi-agent solution that generates personalized sales pitches for field sales teams at scale.
Vxceed operates mostly in the emerging economies. The CPG industry is facing challenges such as constant change, high customer expectations, and low barriers to entry. These challenges are more pronounced in the emerging economies. To combat these challenges, CPG companies worldwide invest 15–20% of their revenue annually in trade promotions, often in the format of loyalty programs to retailers.
The uptake of these loyalty programs, however, has traditionally been lower than 30% due to their complexity and the need to address each individual outlet’s needs. To make this challenge more complex, in emerging economies, these loyalty programs are primarily sold through the field sales team, who also act in the role of order capture and fulfilment, and the scale of their operation often spans across millions of outlets. To uplift the loyalty programs uptake, which in turn uplifts the brands revenue retention, the loyalty programs needed to be tailored at a personalized level and pitched properly to each outlet.
Vxceed needed a solution to solve this problem at scale, creating unique, personalized loyalty program selling stories tailored for each individual outlet that the field sales team can use to sell the programs.
This challenge led Vxceed to use Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies through a single API.
To address the challenges of personalization, scale, and putting the solution in the hands of tens of thousands of field sales teams, Vxceed developed Lighthouse Loyalty Selling Story, an AI-powered solution. The Lighthouse Loyalty Selling Story architecture uses Amazon Bedrock, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda to create a secure, scalable, AI-powered selling story generation system. The solution implements a multi-agent architecture, shown in the following figure, where each component operates within the customer’s private AWS environment, maintaining data security, scalability, and intuitive user interactions.
The solution architecture is built around several key components that work together to provide a curated sales enablement experience that is unique for each retailer customer:
The architecture implements a secure, scalable, and serverless design that uses AWS managed services to deliver a sophisticated sales enablement solution.
Vxceed built a multi-agent AI system on Lambda to manage personalized sales storytelling. The architecture comprises specialized agents that work together to create, validate, and deliver compelling sales pitches while maintaining alignment with business rules and brand guidelines.
The following is a detailed breakdown of the multi-agent AI architecture:
Each agent is implemented as a serverless Lambda function, enabling scalable and cost-effective processing while maintaining strict security controls through integration with AWS KMS and Secrets Manager. The agents interact with the Amazon Bedrock LLM and guardrails to provide appropriate and responsible AI-generated content.
Lighthouse uses Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to maintain professional, focused interactions. The system uses denied topics and word filters to help prevent unrelated discussions and unprofessional language, making sure conversations remain centered on customer needs. These guardrails screen out inappropriate content, establish clear boundaries around sensitive topics, and diplomatically address competitive inquiries while staying aligned with organizational values.
Vxceed selected Amazon Bedrock over other AI solutions because of four key advantages:
The implementation delivered significant measurable improvements across three key areas.
The solution achieved a 95% response accuracy rate while automating 90% of loyalty program-related queries. This automation facilitates consistent, accurate responses to customer objections and queries, helping salespeople and significantly improving the retailer experience.
Early customer feedback and industry analysis indicate program enrollment increased by 5–15%. This growth demonstrates how removing friction from the enrollment process directly impacts business outcomes.
The solution delivered substantial operational benefits:
These efficiency gains help Vxceed customers focus on higher-value activities while reducing operational costs. The combination of faster processing and reduced support requirements creates a scalable foundation for program growth.
AWS partnered with Vxceed to support their AI strategy, resulting in the development of Lighthouse Loyalty Selling Story, an innovative personalized sales pitch solution. Using AWS services including Amazon Bedrock and Lambda, Vxceed successfully built a secure, AI-powered solution that creates personalized selling stories at scale for CPG industry field sales teams. Looking ahead, Vxceed plans to further refine Lighthouse Loyalty Selling Story by:
With this collaboration, Vxceed aims to significantly improve CPG industry field sales management, delivering secure, efficient, and AI-powered solutions for CPG companies and brands.
If you are interested in implementing a similar AI-powered solution, start by understanding how to implement asynchronous AI agents using Amazon Bedrock. See Creating asynchronous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock to learn about the implementation patterns for multi-agent systems and develop secure, AI-powered solutions for your organization.
Roger Wang is a Senior Solution Architect at AWS. He is a seasoned architect with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He helps New Zealand and global software and SaaS companies use cutting-edge technology at AWS to solve complex business challenges. Roger is passionate about bridging the gap between business drivers and technological capabilities, and thrives on facilitating conversations that drive impactful results. | |
Deepika Kumar is a Solutions Architect at AWS. She has over 13 years of experience in the technology industry and has helped enterprises and SaaS organizations build and securely deploy their workloads on the cloud. She is passionate about using generative AI in a responsible manner, whether that is driving product innovation, boosting productivity, or enhancing customer experiences. | |
Jhalak Modi is a Solution Architect at AWS, specializing in cloud architecture, security, and AI-driven solutions. She helps businesses use AWS to build secure, scalable, and innovative solutions. Passionate about emerging technologies, Jhalak actively shares her expertise in cloud computing, automation, and responsible AI adoption, empowering organizations to accelerate digital transformation and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. | |
Cyril Ovely, CTO and co-founder of Vxceed Software Solutions, leads the company’s SaaS-based logistics solutions for CPG brands. With 33 years of experience, including 22 years at Vxceed, he previously worked in analytical and process control instrumentation. An engineer by training, Cyril architects Vxceed’s SaaS offerings and drives innovation from his base in Auckland, New Zealand. |
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