OUR PHILOSOPHY
Commerce doesn't end at checkout.
It's just getting started.
Commerce doesn't end at checkout.
It's just getting started.
Commerce infrastructure is incomplete.
Commerce infrastructure is incomplete.
Pentatonic's journey started with one question. What happens to things after we are done with them?
Pentatonic founded
Advising global brands
Digital incentives
TES and Physical AI
Where we are now
Across Pentatonic takeback programs in 2025.
of material recovered to date.
of returned products are resellable.
basket lift on every redeemed gift card.
of consumers within 25 miles return into stores vs mail-in.
Different perspectives + shared drive.
The team building the tech of tomorrow.
Different perspectives + shared drive.
The team building the tech of tomorrow.
Founders
Johann Boedecker
Co-founder, CEO
Johann Boedecker is the founder and CEO of Pentatonic, an AI platform that automates trade-in programs and agentic commerce. Prior to founding Pentatonic, Johann garnered a decade of manufacturing and supply-chain experience across Taiwan and China, and published on materials science and industrial systems. Pentatonic serves brands across multiple verticals, including consumer electronics, sportswear, toys, and cosmetics, processing trade-ins that generate both immediate revenue and valuable customer insights for improved product development.
Johann Boedecker
Co-founder, CEO
Johann Boedecker is the founder and CEO of Pentatonic, an AI platform that automates trade-in programs and agentic commerce. Prior to founding Pentatonic, Johann garnered a decade of manufacturing and supply-chain experience across Taiwan and China, and published on materials science and industrial systems. Pentatonic serves brands across multiple verticals, including consumer electronics, sportswear, toys, and cosmetics, processing trade-ins that generate both immediate revenue and valuable customer insights for improved product development.
Co-founder, CEO
Johann Boedecker
Johann Boedecker is the founder and CEO of Pentatonic. Prior to founding Pentatonic, Johann garnered a decade of manufacturing and supply-chain experience across Taiwan and China, and published on materials science and industrial systems. Pentatonic serves brands across multiple verticals—including consumer electronics, sportswear, toys, and cosmetics—processing trade-ins that generate both immediate revenue and valuable customer insights for improved product development.
Johann Boedecker
Co-founder, CEO
Johann Boedecker is the founder and CEO of Pentatonic, an AI platform that automates trade-in programs and agentic commerce. Prior to founding Pentatonic, Johann garnered a decade of manufacturing and supply-chain experience across Taiwan and China, and published on materials science and industrial systems. Pentatonic serves brands across multiple verticals, including consumer electronics, sportswear, toys, and cosmetics, processing trade-ins that generate both immediate revenue and valuable customer insights for improved product development.
Co-founder, CMO
Jamie Hall
Jamie Hall anchors our deep understanding of the consumer landscape. As Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Jamie directs the integration of customer experience with multi-commerce principles, ensuring that circularity is embedded across our platform, partnerships and programs. He brings invaluable insights from his years in senior leadership roles at Nike and Levi’s, where he developed extensive knowledge of product design, brand communications, marketing operations and customer service innovation.
Co-founder, CMO
Jamie Hall
Jamie Hall anchors our deep understanding of the consumer landscape. As Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Jamie directs the integration of customer experience with multi-commerce principles, ensuring that circularity is embedded across our platform, partnerships and programs. He brings invaluable insights from his years in senior leadership roles at Nike and Levi’s, where he developed extensive knowledge of product design, brand communications, marketing operations and customer service innovation.
Co-founder, CMO
Jamie Hall
Jamie Hall anchors our deep understanding of the consumer landscape. As Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Jamie directs the integration of customer experience with multi-commerce principles, ensuring that circularity is embedded across our platform, partnerships and programs. He brings invaluable insights from his years in senior leadership roles at Nike and Levi’s, where he developed extensive knowledge of product design, brand communications, marketing operations and customer service innovation.
Co-founder, CMO
Jamie Hall
Jamie Hall anchors our deep understanding of the consumer landscape. As Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Jamie directs the integration of customer experience with multi-commerce principles, ensuring that circularity is embedded across our platform, partnerships and programs. He brings invaluable insights from his years in senior leadership roles at Nike and Levi’s, where he developed extensive knowledge of product design, brand communications, marketing operations and customer service innovation.
Philip Mossop
Co-founder, CPO
Philip Mossop is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Pentatonic, working with product, engineering and data teams to shape the company’s multi-commerce and AI platforms. With a background in building tech and sustainability startups, he focuses on architecting data-rich, AI- and ML-powered agentic commerce systems that orchestrate resale, repair, refill and recycling across channels. Together with the wider team, he translates customer and market needs into scalable products that unlock new value in post-purchase commerce for global brands.
Philip Mossop
Co-founder, CPO
Philip Mossop is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Pentatonic, working with product, engineering and data teams to shape the company’s multi-commerce and AI platforms. With a background in building tech and sustainability startups, he focuses on architecting data-rich, AI- and ML-powered agentic commerce systems that orchestrate resale, repair, refill and recycling across channels. Together with the wider team, he translates customer and market needs into scalable products that unlock new value in post-purchase commerce for global brands.
Co-founder, CPO
Philip Mossop
Philip Mossop is a seasoned entrepreneur with over two decades of experience merging sustainability with cutting-edge technology. As Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Philip leads the development of innovative platforms that connect customer engagement with intelligent material management. His expertise in digital product development and supply chain optimisation drives our creation of solutions that empower global brands to extend product lifecycles and unlock new value streams.
Philip Mossop
Co-founder, CPO
Philip Mossop is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Pentatonic, working with product, engineering and data teams to shape the company’s multi-commerce and AI platforms. With a background in building tech and sustainability startups, he focuses on architecting data-rich, AI- and ML-powered agentic commerce systems that orchestrate resale, repair, refill and recycling across channels. Together with the wider team, he translates customer and market needs into scalable products that unlock new value in post-purchase commerce for global brands.
our team
Get in touch.
hello@pentatonic.com
to come experience our technology.
London—UK
27 Downham Road Units 5–6
London, N1 5AA
UK
Pentatonic ltd.
VAT: GB307379003
San Francisco—USA
2140 S Dupont Highway
Camden, Kent, DE 19934
USA
INFINITUM TECHNOLOGIES INC.
VAT: GB307379003
Get in touch.
hello@pentatonic.com
to come experience our technology.
London—UK
27 Downham Road Units 5–6
London, N1 5AA
UK
Pentatonic ltd.
VAT: GB307379003
San Francisco—USA
2140 S Dupont Highway
Camden, Kent, DE 19934
USA
INFINITUM TECHNOLOGIES INC.
VAT: GB307379003
Pentatonic's journey started with one question.
What happens to things after we are done with them?
2019
Pentatonic founded
Products remade from waste.
2020
Advising global brands
Early viral work drew interest from the world's leading brands.
2024
Digital incentives
New payment technology unlocks cash rewards that are issued the moment an item is traded back.
Today
TES and Physical AI
The intelligence layer beneath every return, front of store to warehouse.