


“We follow a three-step strategy to reveal value-driven information and help clients see their performance status: Listening and engaging customers, understanding their brand experiences, and taking meaningful action,” remarks David Bay, Co-founder and CEO, Merchant Centric. The firm’s STARS enterprise platform aggregates customer feedback from top social sites for businesses and their local competitors, making it easy to understand and address concerns, while gaining instant answers to business questions. “Engaging with customers is now table stakes for most businesses to compete in their marketplaces. The next step is leveraging the feedback and understanding customers at scale. That’s where Merchant Centric’s industry leading analytics and massive data have helped us leapfrog what others are providing,” says Bay.
Merchant Centric has aggregated a vast data repository consisting of over 350 million reviews collected for 25 million businesses. “With our advanced data aggregation technology and patented curating algorithms, we update almost 1.8 billion pieces of information monthly and make it meaningful for our clients; including easy access to competitor information,” asserts Leff.

With the social data already present, the STARS platform is customizable for clients’ organization structure, roles and permissions, and deployed in under a week. Further, “Our managed services are ready to handle customer concerns on our clients’ behalf,” posits Bay. Backed by a group of engagement specialists, the firm has already engaged a whopping 60,000 customers of clients and is on track to double that count this year.
Merchant Centric is a guiding light to a large client base across industries spanning hospitality, automotive services, medical and various franchises. Testimonials are ample; a major automotive company with hundreds of locations nationally, credits Merchant Centric with a half-star customer ratings’ increase; contributing to revenue growth of almost 4 percent—a significant increase for an organization this large. “Clients using our platform consistently see gains when using Merchant Centric; they increase their review velocity, increase the amount of 4 and 5 star ratings, and with more satisfied customers, increase sales” notes Bay.
“We look at everything from our clients’ perspective to determine how it can help enhance their business outcomes. We call this being ‘Merchant Centric’ and this is core to our values and beliefs,” postulates Bay. With an impressive track record, the firm is partnering with other leading technology companies to advance customer-intelligence based solutions. Watch for their upcoming Spotlight Report with real-time theme reporting and Intelligent Surveys.
Company
Merchant Centric
Headquarters
Westlake Village, CA
Management
David Bay, Co-Founder & CEO
and Adam Leff, Co-Founder
Description
Develops customer engagement and analytic solutions using artificial intelligence and massive data to view enterprise performance and identify optimal business actions
