AI and automation

A retail automation platform, AI in every job

Part of iVendNext, the open retail platform.

A retail automation platform with AI inside the jobs your teams already do. Foresight forecasts stock, sales and cash. CoPilot answers on every page of the back office. AI Gateway connects the AI assistant your team already uses. Any other AI tool connects through the REST API and the event feed.

AI INSIDE EACH JOB

Three tools, each for a job your team already does

For buyers and finance

Foresight

Forecasts stock, sales and cash flow from your own data, and drafts the orders it suggests.

For everyone in the back office

CoPilot

A chat panel on every page: questions, drafts and reports in plain words.

For managers and analysts

AI Gateway

The AI assistant they already use, connected to your iVendNext data.

FORESIGHT

Retail sales forecasting software that drafts the order

Foresight reads your own iVendNext data, with no outside system, and turns it into forecasts your team can act on.

  • ✓Stock: what each warehouse will use, and a draft purchase order when stock runs low. AI replenishment planning that your buyer approves.
  • ✓Sales: what each customer is likely to buy next, and which customers are at risk of leaving.
  • ✓Cash: cash flow, revenue and expenses ahead, with alerts.
  • ✓Each forecast carries its own accuracy rating, and forecasts refresh hourly, daily or weekly.
COPILOT

Answers, drafts and reports without leaving the page

CoPilot is a chat panel on every page of iVendNext Desk, the back office. It knows which screen it was opened from.

  • ✓Ask questions about your business in plain words.
  • ✓Draft documents and run reports from the conversation.
  • ✓Every reply and draft follows the person’s role, and every step is logged.
  • ✓The assistant behind it is set up for you as part of iVendNext, with nothing to run.
AI GATEWAY

Bring your own AI to your business data

AI Gateway connects the AI assistant your team already uses, such as Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex or any assistant that supports MCP, to your iVendNext data. Each person signs in as themselves, so the assistant sees only what they may see.

  • ✓Ask for reports, stock levels or a customer’s history in plain words.
  • ✓Search, read and update records, move documents through approvals and build dashboards, inside each person’s permissions.
  • ✓Administrators publish skills and prompt templates for the jobs your team repeats.
  • ✓Every request is logged: who asked for what, and the result.

AI retail software that works inside the rules you already set for each role.

For builders

Describe it. Your AI builds it. Our checks keep it safe.

Partners and retail IT teams can build on iVendNext with the AI coding assistant they already use.

  • ✓Every operation of the API is described in a machine-readable file, and every way in has a written recipe.
  • ✓The kit’s checks tell the assistant when something breaks a rule, before anything reaches a store.
  • ✓Apps add to iVendNext and never patch it, so the till’s money path and the next upgrade stay safe.
  • ✓Any language, on your own server.
YOUR DATA, YOUR ACCOUNT

AI on your terms

No outside system

Foresight works on your own iVendNext data, with no outside system.

Your key stays with you

AI Gateway works with the AI assistant and account your team chooses, and your provider’s key stays with you.

Runs as a named person

Every question and every action runs as a named person, inside their role, and is logged.

Saved as drafts

Suggested orders are saved as drafts for a person to review.

Questions

Questions about AI and automation

In iVendNext, AI forecasts stock, sales and cash, drafts purchase orders, answers questions and runs reports in plain words, and lets your own AI assistant work with your data.
It suggests reorders: Foresight drafts a purchase order when stock runs low. For promotions, Foresight shows which customers are likely to buy and which are at risk of leaving, and your team sets the offer.
Suggested orders are saved as drafts for your team to review. CoPilot and AI Gateway act only as the signed-in person, inside that person’s permissions, and every step is logged.
Foresight works on your own iVendNext data with no outside system. With AI Gateway, questions go to the assistant your team chooses, through your own account; with CoPilot and AI Gateway alike, each person sees only what their role allows.
Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex and other assistants that support MCP, the open standard for connecting an assistant to your data. Your team keeps using the assistant it already knows.
Your iVendNext partner adds each app to your site and trains your team; the AI apps need no servers of your own.

See AI at work in your own stores

We will show you Foresight drafting an order, CoPilot running a report, and your own assistant answering from your iVendNext data.

Building retail solutions? Talk to our partner team.