Comfort, light, and energy that hold up across thousands of small-format sites.
Productization for small-retail chains — apparel, beauty, and specialty banners (clothing, cosmetics, accessories, and similar). Small store footprint (500–8,000 sq ft), simple building infrastructure, no refrigeration load, and customer comfort as the primary operational objective — customers spend significant time browsing, making climate control critical. Keedian covers three asset domains: HVAC (RTUs and store HVAC — the dominant asset class), Lighting (interior, exterior signage, back-of-house) and Energy (site-wide electric and gas). Built for chains where in-house facilities support is limited, store staff are operations people (not facilities), and internal expertise on building systems is generally low.
Expected impact across the portfolio
Energy savings — Up to 30%, combined across HVAC, Lighting and Energy
Avoided truck rolls — Up to 60% fewer reactive dispatches across unattended sites
Asset lifespan — Up to 20% longer useful life on HVAC and lighting fixtures
Customer experience — comfort and ambience consistency across every site
Portfolio ceilings — expected (pending validation). Per-product quantitative ranges live in each product page's Expected outcome row.
Small retail format
In progress
In-Mall Tenant catalog being defined.
The in-mall tenant catalog is in scoping. The boundary depends on the lease structure and which equipment the tenant operates directly — typically the products that apply are Lighting (tenant-controlled fixtures inside the leased space), Energy (sub-meter visibility on the tenant's consumption), and a limited HVAC scope where the tenant owns individual zone equipment.
Refrigeration is not applicable to small retail in either format. The Keedian operating model — Essential / Managed / Optimized tiers, Agentic Operations, and the same SLA — does not change with the format.
00 Products
Pick a product.
Each Keedian product targets a specific asset in your store. Click a card to open the product page.
Drop docs/shared/small-retail-store.png to see the illustration
Two formats: standalone (own building, full catalog) and in-mall tenant (reduced catalog, since the property operator controls common HVAC and infrastructure). This page covers the standalone format. Use the toggle at the top to preview the in-mall scope.
01 HVAC Comfort & Optimization
Executive summary
Impact: Up to 15–30% HVAC energy savings, 45–60% fewer truck rolls, and 10–20% longer RTU life across small-format unattended stores at the Optimized tier — with measurable wins already at Managed. Per-tier ranges in the Expected outcome row below.
What it solves: Comfort complaints that translate directly to lost sales, runaway HVAC energy spend, premature RTU failures driving emergency service calls, schedule and setpoint drift no small-team owner can manually police, and the cost of dispatching vendors without remote triage.
These are the operational metrics the product monitors. What changes across tiers is who acts on them — you (Essential), Keedian's Agentic Operations (Managed), or Keedian plus continuous tuning (Optimized) — and, where the data layer adds instrumentation, which signals become available.
The core metrics are summarized below. Full methodology, thresholds, diagnosis steps, and escalation criteria are in the Metrics Catalog.
Each metric includes definition, detection logic, diagnosis steps, recommended actions, escalation criteria, and prevention controls. Thresholds are reference values to be calibrated per client.
Each tier adds capabilities on top of the previous one. You never lose functionality by upgrading, and you can start at any tier.
Component
EssentialVisibility
ManagedAgentic Operations 24/7
OptimizedAgentic Operations + intelligence
Customer promise
"I can see and operate my entire HVAC fleet from one place — consistent conditions, consistent standards, across every location."
"Keedian actively monitors my HVAC 24/7, takes action when it matters, and dispatches only when remote action isn't enough. My locations stay comfortable, my standards are enforced, and I don't have to chase issues."
"Keedian optimizes my HVAC continuously — comfort is maximized, energy is captured, and problems are caught before they affect the store."
Expected outcome
Illustrative ranges, pending validation — actual results depend on your current baseline (equipment age, existing controls, climate, and utility rate structure). Energy figures are savings on HVAC energy use, not the total utility bill.
Energy savings: 5–10%
Avoided truck rolls: Foundation
Asset lifespan: Foundation
Customer experience: Faster identification of comfort issues
Energy savings: 10–20%
Avoided truck rolls: 30–50%
Asset lifespan: 5–10%
Customer experience: Comfort complaints resolved faster, fewer left unresolved
Energy savings: 15–30%
Avoided truck rolls: 45–60%
Asset lifespan: 10–20%
Customer experience: Proactive comfort — issues caught before customers complain
Data Enabler
Pick the model that matches what you already have
Model A — Keedian Direct
Per RTU: smart wireless thermostat, supply air temperature sensor, return air temperature sensor
One connectivity gateway per site (covers all monitored RTUs; shared with Refrigeration, Lighting, or Energy if those products are also contracted)
You keep the model you chose. The managed service is delivered the same way regardless of model.
Managed's Data Enabler, plus:
Model A:
Outdoor air sensor (temp + humidity) per site
Pressure / refrigerant-charge sensor per RTU (enables advanced FDD and refrigerant leak detection)
Additional optional sensors evaluated per site profile — CT clamp per RTU for direct kWh sub-metering (enables rigorous IPMVP M&V), filter differential-pressure, economizer damper position feedback, fan motor current / vibration monitoring, air-curtain integration, CO2 / DCV ventilation control
Site and portfolio dashboardsReal-time and historical visibility into the assets and metrics included in scope, with live alarms where applicable
Cross-site benchmarking with outlier detectionSee which locations drift from the fleet
Ticket workspaceAlarms auto-filter into a managed queue that you and your team work yourselves: triage, resolve remotely, or dispatch on each ticket
Conversational AI AssistantNatural-language questions on your data plus automated anomaly detection across the fleet
HVAC Ad-Hoc CommandChange setpoints on demand or push operating schedules across the HVAC assets and aggregation levels included in scope
And moreRole-based access, alarm history, data export, web and mobile parity
Everything in Essential
SLA tracking and service performanceLive SLA compliance against contractual targets per priority level
Standard CMMS integrationOut-of-the-box connectors for Fexa, Corrigo, ServiceNow and others; custom field maps or workflow adjustments may apply depending on your configuration
And moreClosure evidence on every ticket, weekly ops digest, post-incident reviews
Everything in Managed
Real-time Demand Optimization AgentCycles equipment within comfort bands to flatten demand peaks against your utility's rate model (kW demand-charge avoidance)
HVAC predictive metricsDashboards with advanced and predictive health metrics and early-warning indicators (roadmap — coming later) for the HVAC assets and metrics included in scope, evolving toward forward-looking views of failures and performance drift across the portfolio
IPMVP-compliant Measurement & VerificationSavings vs contracted baseline, exportable for executive and ESG reporting
And moreCross-site benchmarking with savings ranking, custom optimization rules, executive briefing reports
Managed service scope
Identical regardless of Data Enabler model (A, B, or C)
No managed service.
You and your team manage alarms, tickets, and remote commands yourselves from the dashboards
24/7 HVAC operations:
Real-time alarm and ticket monitoring — Alarms and tickets generated from the assets and metrics included in scope are monitored, triaged, and worked by Keedian agents in real time, in accordance with the agreed operating procedures and escalation paths AI
Reactive site requests — Sites can reach Keedian on any channel; our AI evaluates each request and opens a ticket when one is warranted — a fault, a setpoint-change request, or a question — feeding it into the same triage-and-resolve workflow AI + Human
Reactive CMMS intake — Tickets triggered by the customer's CMMS are ingested and routed into the same triage-and-resolve workflow, with our AI evaluating and enriching each one AI + Human
Remote resolution first — Every ticket gets a remote-resolution attempt by Keedian Ops before a truck roll is scheduled, with the avoided truck rolls counted toward the Managed-tier ROI report AI
Field dispatch when needed — Keedian Ops creates the work order, hands off to the customer's CMMS, and tracks resolution against SLA Human
Root cause analysis on close — Every closed ticket includes a documented root cause and the corrective action taken, feeding into recurring-failure detection AI
Recurring-failure detection — Sites or units with repeat tickets are flagged for replacement or vendor escalation, with the recurrence pattern surfaced in the monthly executive report AI
Operations + intelligence:
Everything in Managed, plus
Predictive ticket origination (roadmap — coming later) — AI and multi-variable FDD logic use the assets, metrics, baselines, and predictive signals included in scope to open and work tickets for emerging fault patterns before a conventional alarm or customer report AI
Proactive setpoint command — Keedian Ops issues approved setpoint and schedule changes directly through the platform on your behalf; you review and approve from the audit log AI + Human
Additional HVAC FDD coverage — Analytics-driven fault detection on Runtime, Cooling Delta T, Setpoint Compliance, and Temperature Compliance is fully worked by Keedian Ops, aligned with the advanced and predictive metrics dashboards in Platform Capabilities AI
Reporting
Portfolio compliance report% of sites in compliance for each HVAC optimization metric (Runtime, Cooling Delta T, Setpoint Compliance, Temperature Compliance) for the period, with monthly trend per metric
Site compliance reportPer-site averages for Runtime and Cooling Delta T with compliance flag, plus % of time each site was in Setpoint and Temperature compliance, all with monthly trends
Alarm and ticket volume reportMonthly HVAC alarms, tickets generated, and alarm-to-ticket conversion rate across the fleet
Top alarm and ticket sourcesRanked list of sites and devices generating the most alarms and tickets
Everything in Essential
SLA & MTTR performanceSLA compliance against contracted targets per priority level, combined with Mean Time to Resolution by priority for fleet and per-site, with monthly compliance and resolution-time trends
Reactive ticket activitySummary of reactive tickets received (phone, CMMS, customer-initiated) categorized by type, plus the cross-analysis of reactive vs proactive tickets including the % of tickets Keedian proactively initiated
Avoided truck rolls reportTickets resolved remotely without dispatch, with estimated cost savings
Managed-tier ROI reportEnergy savings proxy (weather-normalized) plus avoided truck rolls, monetized
Comfort complaint summaryBy site, by month, with resolution time and root cause distribution
Everything in Managed
Predictive alarm and ticket reportAlarms and tickets generated proactively by predictive models, with prediction accuracy and lead time before operational impact
Optimized-tier ROI reportManaged ROI plus Equipment Lifetime Extension (predictive maintenance impact) and Demand Optimization savings adjusted by the site's utility billing model (kW demand-charge avoidance)
Quarterly improvement opportunitiesOperational, CAPEX, and other recommendations from the AI agents, ranked by expected impact
IPMVP M&V quarterly reportFormal Measurement & Verification per IPMVP protocol vs contracted baseline; backed by per-RTU CT sub-metering when deployed, modeled from runtime + nameplate otherwise; exportable for executive and ESG reporting
Outlier deep divesQuarterly analysis of bottom-quartile sites with root-cause analysis and recommended interventions
Specific SLA for failure anticipation and energy savings capture
Pricing
HW provision, installation, and integration are one-time; subscription is recurring. Preliminary, subject to review.
Model A · Direct
HW provision base (gateway): Price per site
HW provision per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU) (sensor pack): Price per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU)
Installation & commissioning: Price per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU)
Subscription: Price per site per month (Up to 3 devices)
Model B · Connect
No HW provision, no installation
Integration: Free or paid — depends on integration scope (open-protocol BMS is typically free; proprietary or custom integrations are quoted at SOW)
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
Model C · Hybrid
Integration: Same as Model B — free or paid based on integration scope
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
Model A · Direct
Everything in Essential
Subscription: Price per site per month
Model B · Connect
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
Model C · Hybrid
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
Model A · Direct
Everything in Managed
Subscription: Price per site per month
Model B · Connect
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
Model C · Hybrid
Subscription: Price per site per month (same as Model A)
02a Add-ons
Adjacent capabilities, on top of any tier.
Add-ons activate on top of any tier and any Data Enabler model. Each is either Domain-specific (within a product domain) or Transversal (across any contracted product). Open an add-on for its hardware, value levers, and pricing — or browse the full add-ons catalog.
Domain-specific
Adjacent capabilities within the product domain. Hardware and pricing live on each add-on's page.
Tracks CO2, VOCs, and PM2.5 to validate ventilation effectiveness and support employee/customer wellness reporting. Useful for compliance with stricter indoor air standards.
Monitors and controls entrance air curtains — on/off state, runtime, and activation compliance — so the thermal barrier is actually running when doors are open.
Custom dashboards and one-off reports built to your spec, on top of the data Keedian already collects.
02b Advisory
An advisory layer, not a tier.
Tailored work for needs outside the standard packaging — scoped and priced per engagement, on top of any product and any tier. Keedian owns the connectivity and data layer; the physical asset stays with you and your vendors. Browse the full advisory catalog.
On-site work on the connectivity layer — sensor calibration, gateway and smart-thermostat installation, integration validation — plus coordination of your HVAC vendor for asset repairs.
Connectivity and control-sequence design for HVAC retrofits, plus savings evaluation. Keedian scopes the controls and telemetry and quantifies expected savings — not the mechanical retrofit.
Sequence-of-operations design and savings evaluation for the central cooling plant. Keedian designs the chilled-water / condenser-water control sequences and quantifies expected plant savings — not the mechanical plant work.
Domain-specific
hvac
Pricing: project-based · scoped per engagement
02c How Agentic Operations works
A hybrid of AI agents and human operators, working as one service.
The Managed and Optimized tiers are delivered through Agentic Operations — AI agents and human operators working together against the same operational rules and the same SLA.
AI agents handle the routine, high-volume work. They monitor alarms in real time across thousands of sites, triage common HVAC false positives like short cycling and sensor drift, run fault detection on RTUs (compressor degradation, fan failures, refrigerant loss), generate setpoint and schedule recommendations driven by weather forecast, identify outlier sites in a fleet of thousands of similar locations, draft work orders with the suspected root cause, and verify closure with telemetry evidence. They work 24/7 against the comfort thresholds you set.
Human operators handle the exceptions. When a comfort complaint requires conversation with the store manager, when a setpoint change needs customer approval before acting, when a vendor escalation needs a human voice on the phone — that's the human side of the team. Operators also manage the customer relationship, refine the operating rules over time, and own the outcome reporting.
One service, one SLA, one accountability. The split between AI and human is invisible to you — you call Keedian, you read Keedian's reports, you measure Keedian against the contract. The internal mechanism evolves as the agentic stack matures; your contract does not change with it.
03 Data Enabler
We capture HVAC signal wherever it lives: our thermostats, your BMS, or both.
The Data Enabler is how the operational signal enters Keedian. We respect the investment you've already made in your building automation —
if you have a working BMS / EMS / smart thermostats, we connect to them. If you don't, we install hardware. If you have partial coverage, we fill the gaps.
The managed service, dashboards, SLA, and outcomes are identical across all three models.
Model A · Direct
Keedian Direct
When it applies
You don't have networked thermostats or a BMS — or what you have isn't producing usable data quality. Common in small retail with standalone analog or basic programmable thermostats.
What's included
Per RTU: smart wireless thermostat, supply air temperature sensor, return air temperature sensor
One connectivity gateway per site (shared with Refrigeration, Lighting, or Energy if those products are also contracted)
In Optimized tier, outdoor air sensor and pressure / refrigerant-charge sensor are added. Additional optional sensors available per site profile (CT clamp for kWh sub-metering, filter ΔP, economizer damper, fan monitoring, air curtain, CO2 / DCV)
Installation included in the setup
Cost to you
Setup: Price per site (install designed for fast multi-site rollout)
Per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU): Price per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU) (sensor pack; Optimized adds the charge sensor)
Standard recurring
Model B-Open · Connect
Open protocols
When it applies
Your thermostat platform exposes data through open protocols: BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, documented REST APIs. Ecobee/Pelican with API, modern smart thermostat platforms.
What's included
Integration through Keedian's standard connectors (already built and reusable)
No Keedian hardware (or minimal if specific data is missing)
Integration cost absorbed by Keedian
Cost to you
No setup, no per-unit hardware
Recurring +$3/site/month vs. Model A
3-year minimum contract
Model B-Proprietary · Connect
Proprietary protocols
When it applies
Your thermostat platform uses closed protocols without modern APIs and requires reverse engineering: proprietary thermostat clouds without API access, email-based reporting.
What's included
Custom integration built by Keedian (initial reverse engineering, then reusable across customers with the same system)
No Keedian hardware (or minimal if specific data is missing)
Integration cost absorbed by Keedian
Cost to you
No setup, no per-unit hardware
Recurring +$5/site/month vs. Model A
3-year minimum contract
Model C · Hybrid
Partial coverage
When it applies
You have partial coverage: smart thermostats on some RTUs but not all, recent acquisitions running different systems, or thermostats in a subset of stores.
What's included
A blend of Models A and B
Uses existing controls data where it exists
Adds Keedian thermostats where coverage is missing
Cost to you
Scoped per site based on coverage
Setup and per-unit charges scoped per HVAC Asset (ex. RTU) that needs Keedian hardware
Intermediate recurring
Why Keedian can absorb the integration cost: integrations are reusable across customers running the same BMS or thermostat platform.
The first build is the investment; every subsequent customer with the same system runs at high margin. Small-retail chains run smaller fleets, so B-Proprietary integrations remain selective; the standard B-Open path covers the bulk of cases (Ecobee/Pelican with API).
System classification
Maintained by Product + Engineering. Lets Sales quote on the spot without engineering scoping.
Classification is pre-assigned per system; any system not on this list requires Engineering review before quoting.
Model A · Direct
No BMS classification needed
You don't have networked thermostats or a BMS installed
What you have produces poor data quality
You prefer Keedian thermostats end-to-end
Model B-Open · +$3 / site / month
Open protocols
Ecobee / Pelican thermostats with API
Native BACnet / Modbus / MQTT systems (rare in small retail)
Honeywell / Resideo with documented API
Model B-Proprietary · +$5 / site / month
Proprietary protocols
Proprietary thermostat clouds without API
Email-based reporting only
Legacy thermostat platforms without documented integration
Exception → Custom: If an integration takes more than ~300 hours of engineering, isn't reusable across customers,
or requires one-off development for a system without precedent, it falls outside Model B and is sold as Advisory work (section 02b).
05 Design notes
Why the structure is built this way.
HVAC is the primary product
For standalone small-retail, HVAC is the largest controllable line in store operating cost beyond labor and rent. Comfort failures translate directly to lost sales — a hot store on a Saturday is a measurable revenue hit. Energy Intelligence is now available; Lighting is in development. HVAC remains the most defensible first product for the segment.
Per RTU, not per site
HVAC variable pricing is per RTU because RTU count varies across small-retail formats — a single-storefront apparel store may have 1 RTU, a small-format big-and-tall may have 6+. Per-RTU pricing scales fairly with both customer value and Keedian effort.
Same operating model as Grocery and C-store
The Essential / Managed / Optimized tiers, the Data Enabler model selection, the Agentic Operations split between AI agents and human operators, and the SLA structure are identical across the three retail segments. The differences are in scale (fleet size, asset count per site), vocabulary (buyer persona), and a few segment-specific add-ons.
Standalone today, in-mall to come
This page covers the standalone format only. The in-mall tenant catalog is in scoping — typically Lighting and Energy with a limited HVAC scope, since the property operator controls common HVAC and core infrastructure. The toggle on this page lets readers see what's coming.
Owner-operator buyer in Essential
Essential tier in small retail often lands with a Store Operations Manager or Regional Manager rather than a VP of Facilities — small chains rarely have a dedicated facilities function. The product page and Sales talk track lead with operational outcomes (comfort, store visits, energy line) rather than facilities-team workflow language.
Shared gateway across products
If a customer contracts both HVAC and a future Lighting or Energy product under Model A, the connectivity gateway is shared (one per site). The setup fee is not duplicated — only added once.
06 Document meta
About this document.
ProductHVAC Comfort & Optimization (1 of 3)
SegmentSmall retail — chains with distributed small-format sites