Apiary is a first-of-its-kind business intelligence platform built to accurately model and understand local economies.
We give local merchants an unprecedented view of their local economy: supply chains, pricing, inventory, foot traffic, and every other input and output that shapes whether the month is good or whether it's brutal. And we do it without asking you to change a single tool or workflow you already rely on.
Subscribing merchants also benefit from automatic membership in our user network, giving merchants a way to connect with high-intent local customers without advertisements, influencers, or exorbitant platform fees.
See Your Business Clearly
Maybe you've tried different tools. Maybe you have a bunch of different providers showing you isolated views of your business.
The difference with Hive is that we create a realtime, living picture of not just your business but, the entire area around you that you consider important. Some businesses depend on the blocks closest to them, others draw customers from miles away. Hive lets you decide where you need to focus tunes itself accordingly.
Apiary connects to your existing POS systems, payment & banking providers, inventory systems, reservation platforms, accounting tools, and more to build a living picture of your business.
Built for privacy from the ground up, we ensure that all data moving in and out of our system is fully anonymous and de-identified. Only the merchant’s own local tenant can associate the merchant’s identity with their specific data set.
Data with Context
Apiary goes beyond just your business. Our engine proactively researches and understands the area your business operates in and does the research you wish you had the time to do.
Our agents constantly sweep your neighborhood businesses, schools, venues, public spaces, and even the weather, to keep track of everything going on in your neighborhood, how it might impact your business, and clear insights as to how you can plan ahead rather than be caught by surprise.
Predictive Local Analytics
Optimize pricing and margins without guesswork
Consolidate and economize supply chain
Better understand and anticipate foot traffic
Accurately forecast demand and inventory
Minimize overhead and breakage concerns
Understand what your customers want and why
And when the world outside your four walls shifts, whether from a major local event, a spike in commodity prices, or a dip in foot traffic a few blocks over, we’re on it. Apiary flags what's relevant, explains what it means for your business, and helps you adapt before it hits your bottom line.
Our model performs best when given time to learn your business. That's why every new merchant on Hive is eligible for a no-cost 90-day trial period. We’ll train on your data without changing a single part of your daily routine, and let you see along the way how Hive can add value to your operations.
We are in the process of onboarding our first pilot programs over the summer of 2026 and invite you to try out our software at no charge.
If you’d like to learn more or see if you qualify for our Pilot testing, reach out today.
Train Your Business For Free
FAQ
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No. We do not sell user or merchant data to brokers or third parties. All data in our engine exists as anonymous identifiers, and only your own device can correlate that data back to your identity.
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Yes. Hive connects with payment providers (Stripe, Square), POS systems, accounting tools (QuickBooks), HRM platforms (ADP, Paychex), your website or e-commerce platform, and manual receipt and ledger uploads.
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No. We give you our read on pricing and let you decide. We never use dynamic or surge pricing, and the price in your store is always the price on our platform.
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We help you understand your responsibilities in plain terms and prepare for regulatory requirements, but we don't provide legal or financial advice. Instead, we work to help you ask the right questions and understand all of your options, without the usual expense
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We monitor buying patterns across our merchant network and can alert you to supply disruptions, automatically surface the lowest market price among your approved vendors, and even help set up reorder triggers when inventory runs low.
Hive also helps merchants understand how broader market factors and commodity prices impact them, and how to accurately forecast and prepare for them.