Demand forecasting

The applied science factory for improving demand forecasts

Pavo learns how your forecasting system works across sales, products, plans, and past forecasts. It builds the evaluation and runs projects to improve accuracy at each planning horizon.

See how Pavo works

Current forecast stack

models · horizons · overrides

Sales history

units · stockouts · returns

Known future inputs

price · promo · calendar

Candidate forecasts

features · models · horizons

Rolling backtest

cutoff-safe origins

Planning cycle

one buying round

Stockouts + waste fall

Pavo learns your current forecasting stack, reads sales history and known future inputs together to build candidate forecasts, scores them on a cutoff-safe rolling backtest, runs the winner through one buying round, and writes the measured result back.
  • Increase experimentation velocity

    Explore features, model classes, and loss functions in parallel. Move stronger candidates into planning tests faster.

  • Increase win rates

    Backtest candidates across SKUs, horizons, and known future inputs. Give planners stronger evidence before each cycle.

  • Force multiplier for your team

    Automate demand analysis, temporal backtests, and forecast pipeline preparation.

How it works

Connect your forecasting stack

Connect code, sales, catalog, inventory, prices, promotions, plans, metrics, and forecast history.

Build system understanding

Pavo reconstructs how your production system works. Your team verifies the system book.

System bookArchitectureServices, models, pipelinesMetricsDefinitions and ownersFailure modesWhat breaks, and whenExperimentsPast runs and outcomes

Run applied science projects with Pavo

Give Pavo an accuracy goal and planning horizon. It frames the problem, runs backtests, compares models, and opens PRs.

Frame the problemBuild hypothesesRun interventionsEvaluate offlineLive A/B test

Capabilities

Applied science judgement

Picking the right problem, the right approach, the right lever

  • Finds where the error actually costs you - which SKUs, which regions, which horizons, bias or variance
  • Knows whether to fix the features, the model class, the hierarchy, or the loss function
  • Grounds it in your own past forecast cycles and demand patterns, not just what's in the repo
3-MONTH ERROR · EXAMPLE14%1M3MCORENEWTAILFEATURESPLAN INPUT GAPMODELHIERARCHYLOSSADD PLAN-AWARE FEATURESFOR TAIL SKUS AT 3MTest: horizon error + biasACTUALS + PLANSPAST FORECASTS

Scientific rigour

Explores widely, and ships only what's proven

  • Tries multiple model classes and feature sets at once instead of betting on one retrain
  • You see accuracy backtested on your own history, with proper time splits, before it hits planning
  • Checks new SKUs, promo weeks and long horizons separately - no gain that hides a stockout
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Knowledge compounds

Every iteration makes the next one cheaper

  • The work itself produces new knowledge - how demand behaves by region and season, where your data is unreliable, which horizons resist accuracy
  • Written back to your system book, reviewed by your team, reused next time - it stays with you
  • Your team owns the learnings, so v2 to v3 to v4 gets faster, not just further
01LEARN02RETAIN03REUSEPlan-aware quantilesEXAMPLE · TESTEDPlans reduce peak-week biasP50 hides stockout riskLocal models miss sparse SKUsYOUR SYSTEM BOOKDEMAND PATTERNSERROR CALIBRATIONMODEL HISTORYTIME TO PROOF · EXAMPLE4wV23wV31wV4KNOWLEDGE REUSED

Use-cases

Illustrative marketplace forecast small multiples where average accuracy hides stockout-censored demand and excess-inventory risk in new and long-tail SKUs.

Our average forecast hides SKU misses that create stockouts and excess inventory

Pavo flags stockout-censored sales, segments SKUs by demand pattern, compares point and probabilistic models on rolling time splits, then measures error and inventory risk by horizon.

Forecast biasInterval coverageStockout exposureInventory risk
Illustrative planning timeline with a forecast cutoff: future-known price, promotion, and ad plan feed a peak forecast while later actuals remain unavailable.

Our forecast ignores planned promotions, prices, and ad spend, so peak-week inventory is wrong

Pavo separates inputs known at the forecast cutoff from later observations, supplies planned price, promotion, and ad spend, then backtests each horizon without future leakage.

Peak-week errorForecast biasScenario deltaHorizon accuracy
Illustrative cross-SKU forecast: established product histories and category context help create a probabilistic launch forecast for a new marketplace item.

We set launch buys for new and long-tail SKUs with too little history to forecast alone

Pavo compares local baselines with cross-SKU models, adds product and category context, then reports new and sparse SKU results as distinct cohorts at every forecast horizon.

New-SKU errorLong-tail errorIn-stock rateExcess inventory

Security and trust

  • ISO 27001

    Certified

  • SOC 2 Type II

    Compliant

  • Encryption

    Encrypted in transit and at rest, with managed production keys.

  • Access control

    Least-privilege access, enforced with MFA and reviewed quarterly.

  • Data control

    Tenant-segmented, with retention and customer-controlled deletion.

  • Monitoring and response

    Continuously monitored, centrally logged, and ready to respond.

  • Tested and patched

    Independently pen-tested, scanned, and kept current against threats.

  • Resilient by design

    Multi-AZ with backups and a tested continuity and recovery plan.

Full reports, policies, and the complete control list are available on request through the Trust Center.

Start with one forecast decision and one planning horizon. Pavo helps your team understand the system, evaluate better approaches, and ship the first team-approved model.