Chroma

Spend Insights

Move from consumer spend to a confident answer in seconds.

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Chroma at a glance

Analytics-ready spend

Consumer transactions cleaned, aggregated, scaled, and segmented for immediate analysis.

Daily visibility

Refreshed on a one-day lag so yesterday’s market movement can inform today’s decision.

Named competitor insights

Track share, spend, shopper behavior, and momentum across companies and categories.

Built for business questions

Explore through natural-language chat, MCP, Facteus dashboards, or your existing BI workflows.

Ask the question. Skip the data prep.

Raw transaction data can answer a lot of questions. It can also take an analyst weeks to clean merchant names, define cohorts, map competitors, and build the right aggregations before answering the first one.

Chroma does that work for you.

Consumer spend is already cleaned, segmented, and organized into business-ready KPIs and shopper cohorts, so a question like, “Are we gaining or losing share against our top competitor in the Southeast?” can move from question to answer in seconds.

Chroma is built for teams that want to spend more time interpreting the signal and less time preparing it.

Built for teams that need the answer while it still matters.

Ask in plain English.

Use natural-language chat to explore consumer spend the way you’d work with an analyst. Start with the first question, then keep following the thread all the way to decision.

Benchmark the market around you.

Compare named competitors, categories, markets, and cohorts to understand whether a change is yours, theirs, or part of something bigger.

See who’s driving the number.

Break spend apart by geography, generation, income, shopper cohort, merchant, and other dimensions to understand what’s underneath the trend.

Put the answer where your team works.

Use Chroma through chat, MCP, Facteus dashboards, or feed analytics-ready outputs directly into existing BI and reporting workflows.

What teams do with Chroma

Track market share

See which competitors are gaining, losing, or simply moving with the category.

Benchmark performance

Put your own results in context with named competitors, markets, and broader consumer demand.

Understand shoppers

Analyze retention, cross-shopping, share of wallet, cohorts, and shifts in consumer purchase behavior.

Answer leadership questions faster

Move from “we’ll look into it” to an analyst-quality answer while the decision is still being made.

Chroma Data Details

Consumer spend arrives already cleaned, segmented, and organized into business-ready KPIs and shopper cohorts — so your team starts with the question, not the data prep.

Specification

Detail

Data type

Aggregated consumer transaction intelligence

Scale

Coverage of 5M+ merchant locations, 3,500+ brands, and 2,200+ chains at a store-level

Granularity

Visibility into named companies and their customers at the regional, MSA, ZIP, and store-level

Refresh cadence

Daily, one-day lag

Validation

92% correlation to U.S. Census Monthly Retail Sales; 48 out of 50 states within 2pp of BEA Personal Consumption Expenditures

Core use case

Competitive benchmarking, market share, shopper analysis, KPI reporting

Delivery

Natural-language chat, MCP, dashboards, and direct BI integrations

Built for

Finance, strategy, marketing, analytics, and agency teams

Why analytics-ready matters.

Say leadership asks why one region suddenly missed the plan. With raw transaction data, your team may first need to map merchants, define the competitive set, aggregate the geography, and build the comparison.

With Chroma, you start with the question. Is the category softening? Did a competitor gain share? Is the weakness isolated to one market? Are fewer customers buying, or are existing customers spending less? Then keep asking.

The value isn’t just that the data is aggregated. It’s that your team can get from “something changed” to “here’s what is driving it and what we should do about it” while there’s still time to make a decision.

One suite. Different levels of control.

Chroma Spend Insights
Choose it when

Choose Chroma when the question is about spend, not forecasting.

What you get

Explore pre-aggregated consumer spending across companies, categories, markets, and competitors.

5M+ merchant locations
3,500+ brands tracked
92% correlation to U.S. Census Monthly Retail Sales
Spectrum Transaction Stream
Choose it when

Choose Spectrum when you want to build it yourself.

What you get

Work from the full row-level transaction stream to create proprietary signals and models.

1B+ transaction/month
97% MARTS correlation
1-day lag
Beacon Forecasting Signal
Choose it when

Choose Beacon when you want the forecast.

What you get

A stable, ready-to-use ticker signal built for earnings and nowcasting.

4M constant cards
600+ tickers
1-day lag
Acuity Product Granularity
Choose it when

Choose Acuity when the question is about products, not companies.

What you get

Purchase intelligence down to brands, products and UPCs across covered retailers.

10M+ UPCs
45K stores
30+ national merchants
Beam Verified Audiences
Choose it when

Choose Beam when you need to act on the data, not just read it.

What you get

Audiences built on real purchases, ready to activate across media and marketing.

30M households
3–5 day custom audience delivery
18+ direct financial sources

Ask the question you need answered today.

Explore Chroma and see how quickly real consumer spend can become the answer your decision needs.

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FAQ

How is Chroma different from Spectrum?

Chroma is aggregated and analytics-ready, so teams can get to business questions quickly. Spectrum provides row-level transactions for teams that want to build their own signals, cohorts, and models from the ground up.

Who is Chroma built for?

Chroma is designed for finance, strategy, marketing, analytics, and agency teams that need fast, confident answers to inform and validate their decisions.

What kinds of questions can Chroma answer?

Chroma supports competitive benchmarking, market share, share of wallet, cross-shopping, retention, cohort analysis, geographic trends, and other questions about consumer and competitor behavior.

Can we ask questions in natural language?

Yes. Chroma can be explored through Facteus’s natural-language chat, allowing users to ask business questions and continue drilling into the answer conversationally.

How fresh is Chroma?

Chroma is refreshed daily on a one-day lag.

Can Chroma integrate with our existing tools?

Yes. Chroma can support MCP, BI, dashboard, and other approved analytics workflows so teams can use the signal where they already work.

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