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.
Three tools, each for a job your team already does
Foresight
Forecasts stock, sales and cash flow from your own data, and drafts the orders it suggests.
CoPilot
A chat panel on every page: questions, drafts and reports in plain words.
AI Gateway
The AI assistant they already use, connected to your iVendNext data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI on your terms
- Foresight works on your own iVendNext data, with no outside system.
- AI Gateway works with the AI assistant and account your team chooses, and your provider's key stays with you.
- Every question and every action runs as a named person, inside their role, and is logged.
- Suggested orders are saved as drafts for a person to review.
Questions about AI and automation
What can AI do in retail operations?
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.
Can it suggest reorders and promotions?
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.
Does it change anything without a person approving?
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.
Where does my data go?
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.
Which AI assistants work with AI Gateway?
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.
Who sets it up?
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.
