Demand Forecaster
A forecast per SKU and size, with its confidence shown and its accuracy published. The Demand Forecaster FTE builds demand from your own sales history, your trading calendar rather than the Gregorian one, scheduled promotions and measured uplift, and comparables for lines with no history — and labels every forecast by confidence so a three-week-old product is never presented as certain. Each month it publishes forecast accuracy by SKU, naming the misses and why, and recalibrates.
Accountable for
A forecast per SKU with its confidence shown and its accuracy published monthly
Judged on · Forecast accuracy
What it does not do · It does not buy, allocate or price. It forecasts and grades itself; the Buyer, Allocator and Pricing Officer use its numbers, and you approve theirs.
It proposes · you approve · every claim carries its evidence
Workspace · Demand Forecaster FTE
Demand Forecaster FTE
Demand Forecaster
Waiting on you · Question · needs your knowledge
Low confidence · comparable proposedNew line · 3 weeks of sales · which existing product does it most resemble?
Borrowed pattern shown and labelled · confidence upgrades as sales arrive
Yesterday: forecasts revised on 3 promotions you scheduled; accuracy report published with 7 misses.
A whole job function, not a task queue. Demand Forecaster holds the role, the targets and the budget you set, and reports to you on the numbers below.
Owns
Reports on
Needs from you
It reports in first, does the work, hands it over for approval, and measures what happened. You review it the way you review a direct report.
SKUs whose forecast moved, new lines needing a comparable, and any forecast whose confidence changed.
Promotions you schedule, receipts that arrive and sales that shift update the forecast the same day.
What the data lacks: a planned campaign, a comparable, a discontinued line.
Forecast against actual per SKU, misses named with a reason where it can see one, confidence recalibrated.
Demand Forecaster reports into a workspace built for a manager, not an operator. Four of its tabs, drawn as they work.
Today
What is waiting on you comes first, then yesterday, what it noticed, and spend against budget. Read it in a minute.
Workspace · Demand Forecaster FTE · Today
Morning brief · Monday 08:00
Yesterday: forecasts revised on 3 promotions you scheduled; accuracy report published with 7 misses.
Waiting on you
1 to reviewApprovals
Every publish, send or spend waits here with its verdict, its reasons and its evidence. Approve, or send it back with a note.
Workspace · Demand Forecaster FTE · Approvals
Approvals
1 waiting on you
Demand Forecaster FTE · Question · needs your knowledge
Low confidence · comparable proposedNew line · 3 weeks of sales · which existing product does it most resemble?
Borrowed pattern shown and labelled · confidence upgrades as sales arrive
Performance
KPIs are measured, never estimated. Anything not connected yet is shown as unmeasured, not filled in.
Workspace · Demand Forecaster FTE · Performance
Forecast accuracy (30d) · 12 weeks
Measured, not estimated
Targets
Each target carries a status and its evidence. It can propose new targets; they wait for your approval.
Workspace · Demand Forecaster FTE · Targets
Forecast accuracy above 85% on high-confidence SKUs
88% · 412 SKUs
Every forecast carries a confidence label
0 unlabelled
Misses named with a reason
7 named · 2 without a visible cause
Model uplift for the mid-season promotion
FTE-suggested · awaiting your approval
Illustrative workspace frames · the tabs, verdicts and statuses are real product surfaces; the figures are samples.
A forecast per SKU and size, with its confidence shown and its accuracy published. The Demand Forecaster FTE builds demand from your own sales history, your trading calendar rather than the Gregorian one, scheduled promotions and measured uplift, and comparables for lines with no history — and labels every forecast by confidence so a three-week-old product is never presented as certain. Each month it publishes forecast accuracy by SKU, naming the misses and why, and recalibrates.
Forecasts down to size, on your trading calendar and your promotions, not a generic seasonality curve
Confidence labelled on every number; low confidence changes what the Buyer proposes
Accuracy per SKU published monthly with misses named — the forecast is graded, not just displayed
Skills
Beyond the weekly routine, you give it missions: a goal, a scope, a deadline, and progress you can see. Three modes, all of them bounded.
A bounded forecast for the season, per SKU and size, with confidence, handed to the Buyer.
Ranked causes: a promotion not scheduled, a stockout that hid demand, a comparable that did not fit.
Confidence by SKU tier, with what would raise it.
Diagnoses arrive as ranked hypotheses with evidence, never as certainties.
Demand Forecaster connects to the systems below with the permissions you grant, per organization and per property, and nothing more. Connections can be revoked at any time.
Store platform
Signals
Where you review its work
It starts at Level 0 and earns autonomy one step at a time. You grant each level when the evidence says so, and you can take it back at any time.
Proposes only
Every draft, launch, send or spend waits in Approvals. This is where every FTE starts.
Low-risk on its own
You allow routine actions you have approved many times: refreshes, reply drafts, reconciliations that match exactly.
Acts inside caps
It may pause losers, scale winners or publish scheduled work, always inside the budget and rules you set.
Runs the week
Scheduled production runs; you review the brief, the exceptions and the numbers. Any level can be taken back at any time.
Approvals
1 waiting on you
Demand Forecaster FTE · Question · needs your knowledge
Low confidence · comparable proposedNew line · 3 weeks of sales · which existing product does it most resemble?
Borrowed pattern shown and labelled · confidence upgrades as sales arrive
Illustrative approvals queue · budget and spend are always visible beside it.
Instant onboarding: it is on your team the same day you sign up.
Create your organization. Demand Forecaster is added to your workforce from the link below.
Grant the tools it needs and confirm the targets it proposes. It never asks for what the platform already knows.
Its first brief and first proposals land in Approvals the same day.
Short answers. The docs have the long ones.
From comparables you confirm, labelled as borrowed and low confidence, replaced by the product's own sales as they arrive.
Nothing that leaves your company. Demand Forecaster proposes first: every publish, send or spend waits in Approvals with its reasons and evidence. You can grant more autonomy step by step and take it back at any time. Every action is logged.
Plans are token-metered blocks of work, not seats. Every FTE in your organization draws from one wallet whose balance is always visible in the workspace. At zero the FTEs pause; they never overdraw.
Sign up, connect the tools the role needs, and confirm the targets it proposes. Roles marked instant onboarding are working the same day; roles marked custom onboarding are scoped with our team first.
Your data stays scoped to your organization and, where it applies, to the specific property the FTE works on. Integration credentials are encrypted at rest and can be revoked at any time.
Every role holds its own targets and budget; hire one or several, they share one wallet and one workspace.
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Sign up, connect the tools it needs, and review its first proposals this week.
