A 15-year bike shop owner built a tool that connects your AI assistant to your Lightspeed POS

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Bridge, by Rizolvr, lets specialty retailers ask Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini real questions about their store — and get answers from live Lightspeed Retail data.

USA — June 11, 2026 — Rizolvr has launched Bridge, a hosted connector that lets a retailer's own AI assistant read live data from their Lightspeed Retail point-of-sale system. Available since mid-May 2026, Bridge lets a shop owner open the assistant they already use and simply ask — "How did we do this Saturday versus the same Saturday last year?" or "Which items haven't moved in ninety days?" — and get an answer from their actual numbers, with no report to run and no spreadsheet to export.

Bridge is built by Brent Garrigus, who ran his own bike shop on Lightspeed Retail for fifteen years before founding Rizolvr. That operator background shaped the product: Bridge's tools are named after the questions retailers actually ask — work orders, inventory aging, attach rate, customers due for a service visit — not generic database fields.

"I ran a bike shop on Lightspeed for fifteen years. The answers I needed were always in the system — getting them out was the job," said Garrigus, founder of Rizolvr. "Bridge is the tool I wish I'd had. You ask your assistant a normal question, and it answers from your real store data. No new dashboard to learn, no export step."

Technically, Bridge is a hosted MCP server. MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the now-standard way for AI assistants to connect to other software; it was introduced in late 2024 and adopted across the major assistants through 2025. Bridge speaks MCP on one side and Lightspeed Retail on the other, so the retailer's existing assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any MCP-compatible client — gains access to the store's data. Each retailer's data is kept in its own isolated database.

Bridge is read-only today: it reads a store's Lightspeed data and does not change it. Setup takes a few minutes through a standard Lightspeed login, after which Bridge syncs with Lightspeed on a schedule that matches the retailer's plan. Bridge is available now for retailers on Lightspeed Retail (R-Series), starting at $39.99 per month per shop location, with discounted pricing for additional locations.

Rizolvr is also testing a read-and-write version of Bridge that can act on a retailer's behalf. In it, an owner can photograph a supplier's packing slip and have their assistant create the matching purchase order, or photograph an invoice and have the assistant update that purchase order's pricing — with every change logged and reversible. That version is in final testing; no release date has been set.

Unlike AI features built into a point-of-sale system, Bridge does not lock the retailer into one vendor's assistant or keep the data walled inside the POS interface. Because the retailer brings their own assistant, that assistant can reason across the store's data and the other tools the owner already uses, such as email and calendars.

Bridge is available now at rizolvr.com. See what it costs.

About Rizolvr

Rizolvr is a USA-based software studio building tools for specialty retailers — bike shops, music stores, ski and outdoor shops, and similar owner-operated businesses. It is led by founder Brent Garrigus, a 15-year Lightspeed Retail operator and former bike shop owner, and is also the maker of LS Toolkit, analytics and scheduled reporting for Lightspeed retailers. Learn more at rizolvr.com.

About Bridge

Bridge is a hosted MCP server for Lightspeed Retail. It connects a retailer's AI assistant to their live point-of-sale data — sales, inventory, customers, work orders, and purchase orders — with each store's data isolated to its own database. Bridge is read-only today, with a read-and-write version in final testing.

Media contact

Brent Garrigus, Founder, Rizolvr bridge@rizolvr.com · rizolvr.com