SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupePitch book

Beauty Tech, Activated

China MarketFocus— Contextualizing Data for Precision Growth

L'Oréal's China market is the engine of global beauty growth, but competitive, regulatory, and consumer shifts demand real-time insight and rapid action. SCIKIQ turns L'Oréal's fragmented data into actionable intelligence—enabling leaders to see, reason, and act across every channel, product, and consumer touchpoint.

01Enterprise 360What is happening?

02Knowledge GraphWhy is it happening?

03AI CopilotTell me, in plain language

04Agent FactoryDon't just tell me—fix it

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeThe problem

Why now

AI isn't an algorithm problem. It's a data-readiness problem.

~70%

of enterprise data goes unused

~12%

of orgs are ready for agentic AI (despite ~80% investing)

$2.3T

of digital spend not delivering ROI

For L'Oréal Groupe: L'Oréal's China market is the engine of global beauty growth, but competitive, regulatory, and consumer shifts demand real-time insight and rapid action. SCIKIQ turns L'Oréal's fragmented data into actionable intelligence—enabling leaders to see, reason, and act across every channel, product, and consumer touchpoint.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeWhat SCIKIQ does

The platform

Contextualizing data — don't just collect data, activate it.

SCIKIQ is an AI-first, no-code data-fabric platform that unifies siloed enterprise data into AI-ready data products — for enterprise-scale intelligence and data monetization.

Connect

200+ connectors — every source, no latency, no code.

Curate

Contextualize, model and prepare data for every team.

Control

Governed, lineage-traced, compliant by design.

Consume

Copilots, agents, data products and APIs that act.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeThe architecture

From silos to autonomous execution

Four layers — each makes the next trustworthy

01

Enterprise 360 What is happening?

Unifies L'Oréal's China market data—sales, e-commerce, retail, supply chain, and consumer insights—into a single, governed business view.

02

Knowledge Graph Why is it happening?

Models relationships between products, consumers, channels, competitors, and regulatory events—revealing causal chains and business drivers.

03

AI Copilot Tell me, in plain language

Conversationally answers leadership questions—grounded in unified, governed data, and always explainable.

04

Agent Factory Don't just tell me—fix it

Automates margin, growth, and compliance actions—posting transactions to SAP, Salesforce, Tmall, and regulatory portals.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeEnterprise 360 — the build

Layer 1 · Enterprise 360 — the build

How we unify L'Oréal's data into one business 360

Data stays in place; SCIKIQ integrates business concepts across SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, and regulatory portals—building a unified China market 360.

Systems today — siloed

SAP S/4HANA (ERP)Salesforce CRMOracle SCMTmall AnalyticsJD.com APIDouyin APIWeChat APIGov Portal

Unify · no data movement

Connect

Connects to SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, WeChat, and Gov Portal—200+ pre-built connectors.

Contextualize

Maps and tags key business entities—products, consumers, channels, SKUs, regulatory events—across systems.

Resolve & model

Builds business 360s and a knowledge graph—modeling relationships, causality, and incident paths.

Govern

Applies data lineage, quality, and access controls—ensuring compliance and explainability.

Business 360s — entities

Customer 360Salesforce, Tmall Analytics, JD.com API, Douyin API

Product 360SAP S/4HANA, Oracle SCM, Salesforce

Channel 360Tmall Analytics, JD.com API, Douyin API, WeChat API

Compliance 360Gov Portal, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle SCM

Campaign 360Salesforce, Tmall Analytics, Douyin API

These 360s feed Layer 2's Knowledge Graph, enabling root-cause tracing and agentic execution.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeA day in the life

One incident, end to end

From a single signal to revenue impact — traced

Comp

Estée Lauder cuts prices on flagship SKUs, impacting L'Oréal's e-commerce share.

Chin

Market share drops by 2.4% as consumers shift to lower-priced competitor SKUs.

Marg

Gross margin slips by 1.2%—below target, driven by price competition and regulatory costs.

Tmal

Sentiment falls, repeat rate declines; price sensitivity intensifies.

Cons

Social listening detects a 4.2% drop in sentiment, linked to pricing and regulatory news.

JD.c

Regulatory scrutiny increases; 3 incidents flagged, risking channel disruption.

Chin

Incident rate rises to 2.1%; fines issued, inspections increase.

New

210 SKUs impacted; urgent compliance action needed to avoid penalties.

Cera

Launch success high, but gross margin only 59.2%—regulatory costs and price pressure weigh.

Cera

Repeat rate at 28%; margin risk persists.

Targ

Dynamic pricing campaign activated across Tmall and JD.com—margin and share protected.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeThe control tower

The outcome

One live, trusted view — for the people who run L'Oréal Groupe

China Market Revenue

€5.4B

+6.2%

E-commerce Share

42%

+3.1%

Gross Margin

61.5%

-1.2%

Inventory Turn

7.8x

-0.5x

Regulatory Incident Rate

2.1%

+0.7%

New Product Launch Success

83%

+5.4%

Competitive pricing pressure and regulatory changes in China are eroding gross margin and increasing compliance risk.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeWhy SCIKIQ

Credibility

Proven — not a science project

Track record

Among the top augmented-BI platforms (Forrester)
NASSCOM Top-10 Deep-Tech Startup (India)
Featured at MWC Barcelona & AWS re:Invent for GenAI
World's first GenAI fare-rule engine for an international airline
Powers a global logistics & supply-chain leader
200+ pre-built connectors · India · USA · UAE

Why not the alternatives

vs. building it yourself

SCIKIQ delivers 85% faster data integration and 90% lower IT cost—no-code, AI-first, and proven in global beauty. Avoid years of custom build, unlock agentic execution in months.

vs. point tools / BI dashboards

SCIKIQ unifies data, models causality, and automates action—beyond dashboards. Leaders get answers and fixes, not just reports.

vs. generic data fabric / lake

SCIKIQ contextualizes beauty business entities—products, consumers, channels, compliance—into a knowledge graph and agent factory, not just raw data pools.

vs. raw LLMs/chatbots

SCIKIQ grounds GenAI in governed, explainable business data—delivering trusted, actionable answers and autonomous execution, not hallucinated chat.

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeUse cases

Across the business

Where it pays off, across the business

Finance

Margin Protection in China

Unifies sales, competitor, and regulatory data to detect margin erosion, trace root cause, and trigger dynamic pricing/campaign actions—protecting €32M gross margin.

Finance 360

1234

Compliance

Regulatory Gap Closure

Maps regulatory events to product SKUs, quantifies incident risk, and automates compliance resolution—avoiding up to ¥210M penalties.

Compliance 360

1234

Supply Chain

Inventory Optimization

Integrates inventory, sales, and campaign data to detect stockouts, reason over demand, and autonomously reallocate/replenish—protecting €12M sales.

Product 360

1234

Marketing

Sentiment-Driven Engagement

Unifies consumer sentiment and repeat rate data, traces dips to root cause, and launches personalized campaigns—driving €8M incremental sales.

Customer 360

1234

Commercial

Channel Share Recovery

Detects competitor moves, models impact on channel share, and triggers agentic actions to recover market share across Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, and WeChat.

Channel 360

1234

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeThe ambition

Activate Beauty Data for China Market Growth

From Siloed Data to Autonomous Action

Agent FactoryAutonomous execution

AI CopilotSemantic, grounded answers

Knowledge GraphModel relationships & causality

Enterprise 360Unified market, consumer, ops data

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal Groupe90-day pilot

The path forward

Prove it in 90 days — then scale

Phase 1 · 30 daysChina Market Data Unification

Connect 7 source systems
Map core business entities
Build Customer, Product, Channel, Compliance, and Campaign 360s

Phase 2 · 60 daysKnowledge Graph & Copilot

Build Knowledge Graph
Enable Copilot for China market questions
Trace incident paths and business outcomes

Phase 3 · 90 daysAgent Factory Activation

Activate Margin Protection Agent
Activate Compliance Resolution Agent
Activate Inventory Optimization Agent
Activate Proactive Consumer Engagement Agent

SCIKIQ × L'Oréal GroupeThe ask

Next steps

Where to start

Move from reporting to agentic execution in China—protect margin, recover share, and ensure compliance.

1Connect SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, and regulatory portals

2Build unified China market 360s and Knowledge Graph

3Activate margin, compliance, inventory, and engagement agents

sales@scikiq.com · SCIKIQ moves the needles that matter—growth, margin, compliance, efficiency, and competitive edge—for L'Oréal's China market.