DataForcast

Why it is paused

Clothing is one of the hardest things to forecast and one of the most expensive to get wrong. Order too much and it is dead stock in three months; order too little and the season is over before the reorder lands.

DataForecast took the company's own sales history and produced the forecast at the level the buying decision is actually made — per line, per week — using proper statistical forecasting rather than a spreadsheet trend line, with a dashboard the buying team could argue with.

It did its job for the client it was built for. It was never generalised, never priced and never sold to anyone else, so calling it a product would be a stretch.

It is paused, not dead: every business that carries inventory has this problem, and the engine is sitting right there.