On-premise · Mittelstand · Your data stays in-house
We build data-driven software for mid-sized companies — forecasting, planning, processes. Our flagship is Wayfinder Demand Intelligence. Whatever your operation needs beyond that, we build alongside it. All of it runs on your own infrastructure.
On-premise
First usable version in under 12 weeks
Your data and logic stay yours
N 01 — The approach
Standard software covers most of it. The rest — precisely the part where your operation differs from every other — ends up in spreadsheets, one-off queries and a few people's heads. That is where we start: close to the process, connected to your existing systems, running on your hardware.
Build
What you get is not a concept paper but a system that runs in daily operations and that the department actually trusts.
Connect
ERP, inventory management, production, Microsoft 365. Read-only, without touching your core systems — no replacement, no migration.
Operate
Installation, monitoring, alerting, maintenance, data processing agreement and SLA. Plus an orderly handover, should you one day no longer need us.
Just as wayfinders read many signs at once, the platform weaves your signals into a single heading:
Nā Hōkū
the fixed stars
Orders, sales, prices, customers, stock
Nalu
the wave
Capacity, shifts, scrap, bottlenecks
Manu
the bird
Promotions, customer behaviour, pipeline, churn signals
Makani
the wind
Season, holidays, weather, events, market data
N 02 — The flagship
Daily forecasts per item, customer and site. Accuracy stated openly instead of a black box. And derived from it, what actually needs doing tomorrow morning — reorder points, safety stock, priorities, alerts.
Week 18 · Mon, 8 May
Total demand
€ 2.4 M
+8.2 % vs. last year
Forecast accuracy
96.2 %
MAPE 7.6 % · WAPE 5.1 %
Service level
98.1 %
+1.4 pts
Active forecasts
894
12 cold-start
Demand vs. forecast
Ensemble (LightGBM + TFT) · MAPE 7.6 %
ABC/XYZ matrix · 894 articles
auto-classified
A · High revenue share
B · Medium
C · Low revenue
XYZ = demand stability · X steady → Z erratic
Hierarchically reconciled (MinT), refreshed daily — not once a quarter.
Accuracy shown openly (MAPE/WAPE), with an 80% confidence band and SHAP drivers. Not a black box.
The forecast becomes reorder points, safety stock, priorities and alerts for daily operations.
Everything else on this page runs on that same foundation — every custom solution inherits its connectivity, data quality, permissions and operations from the product.
N 03 — What else we build
Not everything starts with a forecast. Plenty starts with a spreadsheet nobody has dared to touch in six years. Every line here is something we have already built.
Pipelines
We collect your data where it lives, validate it and deliver it processed every night — read-only, without touching your core systems. With traceable origin for every figure, automatic detection of changed source structures, and an alert the moment a run fails. Ready-made connectors:
in production: multiple sites, nightly run
Processes
Requests, approvals, lists and maintenance plans become real web applications — with Microsoft 365 sign-in, an approval chain resolved automatically, reminders until a decision is made, and a complete audit trail.
in production
Documents
Orders, delivery notes, promotion sheets and invoices into the system via text recognition and a language model — including ongoing measurement of how accurately the recognition actually performs.
in production
Control
Production scheduling, traceability, supplier scoring, open items, complaints — right through to the display on the shop floor screen.
in production
Assistant
Questions to manuals, master data, contracts and reports — answered by a language model running on your server. Nothing leaves the building.
Operations
Installation on your hardware, monitoring, alerting on incidents, maintenance windows, data processing agreement and SLA — plus a documented exit, written before anyone needs it.
N 04 — From live operations
Not pilot projects in a drawer, but systems somebody relies on every single day.
Food processing
More than 50 functional areas in one application — forecasting, purchasing, slaughter and production planning, traceability, returns, supplier performance. A nightly orchestrated data pipeline, a fresh forecast each day, document import via text recognition.
Administration
Replacing an overgrown Power Apps flow: managers are resolved automatically from the company directory, approval happens by email link or in the app, and every open step sends a daily reminder until it is decided.
Platform
A multi-tenant base with a dedicated connector per customer, data quality checks, reporting, alerting and permission management. Delivered as a self-contained package on customer hardware — including documented offboarding.
N 05 — Principles
Some of this would sell rather well — and would hollow out the very promise you hire us for. Which is why it sits here and not in the small print.
→We never pool customer data. What is created in your building stays there — anonymised or not, and however tempting the comparison would be.
→Everything runs on your infrastructure. If you want the cloud, that is your decision — not our precondition.
→One price per month. No staircase where every second question costs a step more.
→Your data, models, configuration and business logic belong to you. We write the handover down before anyone needs it.
→Where a rule suffices, we build a rule. A model goes only where it is demonstrably better — and the measurement stays visible.
→We are a small team. We say no when a project does not fit what we can stand behind for the long run.
N 06 — The path
First value comes from existing data — not after a system overhaul.
Prioritise use cases, clarify data sources, define success metrics
Connect ERP/SQL/CSV read-only, make data quality transparent
Train models, measure accuracy, check outliers and seasonality
Calibrate inventory, purchasing, production and alerts to business logic
Train users, activate the weekly report, test decisions in daily operations
After 12 weeks: a first productive decision basis on real data, with a clear measure of goal attainment and concrete daily value.
N 07 — Next step
The goal: decide with confidence whether a usable pilot is possible in under 12 weeks.
Talk to us directly
Two sentences are enough: which decision should get better? We'll get back to you personally — no sales machinery.
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