Yearly running cost Assuming 7,200 daily plans a year
By hand $72K / year 2,400 hours of work
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This workflow $285 / year Machine usage only; setup, hosting and review are extra. How should it get your sales and stock? Plan what to make for the day, split around your busiest times.
One daily plan includes up to 50 prepared items and 6 preparation windows.
Upload sales and stock Prepare a daily plan for review $1,296 – 3,600 setup Connect my sales system Refresh plans from authorised updates $1,728 – 4,800 setup
Which sales system should it connect to?My POS export endpoint My inventory system My internal production list Your manager approves production. The workflow cannot change shelf-life rules, operate equipment, order ingredients or promise less waste.
What is included Read your supplied sales, stock and approved rules. Draft item quantities and preparation windows, with missing inputs and the calculation behind each recommendation.
Supply item-level sales, opening usable stock, waste records, recipes and approved shelf-life, batch and capacity rules. New products and missing stock need a manager's decision.
Locations per plan: up to 1 location.
Departments per plan: up to 1 department.
Sales history supplied: at least 168 days.
History in the starting dataset: up to 336 days.
How closely should it predict sales? Choose a lower sales forecast error, then check the plan against your stock, shelf life and capacity.
Standard Test the daily forecast and keep quantities within your approved production rules. Forecast error: ≤25% Improvement over baseline: ≥10% Included Strict Target lower error with more backtesting and checks for busy periods and stockouts. Forecast error: ≤20% Improvement over baseline: ≥15% Setup +$288 – 960 My own targets Agree additional stores, items, forecast horizons or production requirements. Quote separately
How these standards are measured Test future dates held out from training. Compare with a same-weekday baseline, report results by item group and keep stockouts and missing data visible. Your manager approves every plan.
Targets for your selected standard What is checked Target Forecast errorSum of absolute forecast errors divided by observed eligible sales. Lower is better. Use future holdouts and the agreed stockout treatment; zero-sales groups need a separate absolute-error report. ≤25% Improvement over baselineCompare both forecasts on identical held-out dates and item groups. A zero-error baseline cannot support a relative gain; report it separately rather than inventing a percentage. ≥10% Forecast biasAbsolute signed total forecast error divided by total observed sales. Report over- and underprediction by item group so opposite errors cannot conceal poor plans. ≤10% Production rules respectedAll reviewed plans must obey approved rules, or show an explicit infeasible status. Do not change constraints silently or treat an infeasible plan as a successful production schedule. ≥100% Traceable quantitiesEach quantity links to sales, usable stock, expiry, batch size and calculation version. Explanations cannot alter forecast numbers or preparation rules. ≥100%
These are proposed pilot targets, not measured results or a promise of less waste. Sales on stockout days understate demand; your manager confirms the rules and approves every production plan.
How soon do you need the production plan? Choose how soon the draft should be ready after the day's inputs arrive.
Within 3 minutes Included Within 90 seconds Setup +$72 – 360 Within 45 seconds Setup +$216 – 600
Timing details Measure upload to a stored plan, including validation, forecasting, scheduling, model explanations, queueing and retries. Model fitting stays inside the timed run; physical preparation and approval are separate.
The target applies to at least 95% of agreed test runs, with 2 in progress at a time.
How much do you want to spend per daily plan? Choose your machine budget for calculating the plan and explaining its recommendations.
Up to $0.15 Included Up to $0.10 Setup +$72 – 360 Up to $0.05 Setup +$216 – 600
Cost details Includes local forecasting, approved model explanations, retries and shared hosting at the reference workload. Actual cooking, labour, ingredients, POS fees and human review are separate.
Reference machine cost: $0.09 – 0.14 per daily plan at 600 daily plans a month. The selected cap is a target to test, not a replacement for this estimate.
Where do you want it to run? Run in your cloud or on your own machine. Forecasts and quantities are calculated locally; an external model can explain the checked plan.
Run it onYour cloud Local environment AI model accessApproved model API No external calls
Data and access details Runs under your account with local forecasting, restricted access and a review log.
Calculate forecasts locally and send only approved aggregate plan context for source-bound explanations.
Send only approved aggregate plan inputs for explanation. Never send customer-level transactions. Private mode uses local files, local forecasting and templated explanations, without an external POS connection.
How do you want to use it? Review the plan on a web page, ask your existing agent or use a dedicated planning agent.
A production planning page Upload sales and stock, check suggested quantities and approve the day's plan. Included My existing AI agent Ask your agent for the day's plan, the quantities and the inputs behind them. Setup +$72 – 240 A dedicated planning agent Use a separate agent to prepare plans and flag missing or changed inputs. Setup +$144 – 480