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MAP Intelligence Platform

End-to-end pricing intelligence platform — monitoring 10k+ SKUs across 50+ retailers with 8 daily scan cycles, fully hosted on Azure Canada Central.

03. Managed Services & DataGuildBuild MAP Intelligence production architecture and Azure data pipelineStatus: built demoLast reviewed: 2026-05

MAP Intelligence Platform

End-to-end pricing intelligence — from retailer shelf to your dashboard

01

Retailer Sources

  • 50+ retail websites
  • 10,000+ SKUs monitored
  • Public pricing & promo pages
  • Daily automated scans
02

Data Collection

  • Respects robots.txt & ToS
  • Public data only — no login bypass
  • Rate-limited, respectful requests
  • Anti-bot engine with rotating fingerprints
03

Data Pipeline

  • Azure Data Factory orchestration
  • Medallion Lakehouse (Bronze → Gold)
  • Automated quality checks at every stage
  • Delta tables with full versioning
04

Intelligence

  • Price change detection & MAP alerts
  • Trend analysis & forecasting
  • Competitor intelligence
  • Anomaly flagging with human review
05

Client Delivery

  • Insightful dashboard
  • Prompt price change alerts
  • Data management portal
  • Dedicated support & quarterly reviews
06

Trust & Compliance

  • Robots.txt & ToS compliance
  • No PII collected — ever
  • Azure Canada data residency
  • Encrypted at rest & in transit
  • Full audit trail for every data point
50+Retailers Monitored
10k+SKUs Tracked Daily
8×Daily Scan Cycles
100%Canadian Data Residency

Official resources used

GuildBuild adaptation

GuildBuild designed and built the MAP Intelligence Platform from scratch as a managed pricing monitoring service for brand clients, leveraging Azure Data Factory, Medallion Lakehouse, and Power BI.

What Microsoft provides

  • Azure Canada Central infrastructure — compute, storage, networking, and physical security.
  • Azure Data Factory for pipeline orchestration and Delta table management.
  • Power BI embedded dashboards and Azure Key Vault for encryption key management.

What GuildBuild adds

  • Anti-bot scraping engine with rotating fingerprints and Vision AI for dynamic UI detection.
  • Medallion data pipeline with automated quality checks at every stage (Bronze → Silver → Gold).
  • MAP violation detection, price change alerting, trend analysis, and competitor intelligence.
  • Legal and ethical data collection framework — robots.txt/ToS compliance, no PII, full audit trail.
  • Client delivery layer — insightful dashboards, data management portal, dedicated support.

Buyer evaluation checklist

  • Do we need automated, legally compliant pricing surveillance across many retailers?
  • Can we quantify the cost of delayed or missed MAP violations in our current process?
  • Do we want a managed service with dedicated support, or a self-hosted solution?

Implementation deliverables

  • MAP Intelligence Platform — hosted on Azure Canada Central
  • Insightful pricing dashboards (Power BI)
  • Data management portal for client self-service
  • Prompt price change alert system (up to 8 cycles/day)
  • Quarterly business reviews and dedicated support

Technologies shown

Azure Data FactoryMedallion LakehouseDelta TablesPower BIAzure Key VaultVision AIPython
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