Windows desktop · fully offline · one installer
Planning methods proven by real planners. Forecasting, disaggregation, purchasing, scenario comparison - and every step can be run through an AI agent to automate your workflow. No lengthy integration project. Nothing leaves your desktop.
Scenarios Every saved plan, priced and side by side
What's inside
Everything ships in a single Windows installer: the forecasting stack, the BI layer, the grids. Nothing to configure, nothing to host.
Classical statistics, gradient boosting and the Chronos-2 foundation model, blended into one ensemble and scored only on weeks the models never saw, with your real supplier lead time built into the test. Forecast at whatever level your data supports, and sale spikes are modelled as themselves instead of being smeared across the month.
Push an approved forecast down through channel, category, style, size and store. Pin a share, type over a cell, and everything else re-bases around it automatically. Advanced logic, ordinary controls.
Lead times, MOQs and target weeks of supply are real inputs, not spreadsheet math bolted on afterwards. It is warehouse-aware, so it suggests moving stock you already own before it suggests buying more.
Set revenue targets in dollars and the plan solves back to them. Plan future discounts and read margin rather than units alone, so the buy becomes a financial decision instead of a units exercise.
Starts from the Excel workbook you already have, and exports back to it. No integration project, no APIs to wire up. Every input stays visible and auditable, and smoothing your history is something you watch happen rather than a setting you have to trust.
A first-party CLI and a local HTTP API drive the entire workflow headlessly, so an AI agent can run your weekly cycle end to end. The built-in BI pivot compares scenarios side by side, tracks forecast accuracy over time, and exports straight to Excel.
How it works
Each step hands the next one a reviewed number. Nothing leaves the app until you've signed off on it.
Load your sales history workbook
See and shape the history you forecast on
Configure models, run, compare
Review and adjust the topline
Edit the mix down the hierarchy
Store splits, transfers and buy plan
Inside the app
Forecast accuracy scored the way you actually buy, a free-form pivot that ships in the box, a share split that keeps every sale in its own column, and a purchase plan that colours every cell needing a decision.
Every candidate is scored on weeks it never saw, and ranked where you can read it. Each origin cuts history, refits every model, holds a freeze window the length of your supplier lead time - the stretch you could not react inside anyway - and only then starts scoring. You get error and bias, in percent and in units a month, so a model that is accurate on average while running consistently high is not mistaken for a good one. The same channel, two horizons: Chronos2 forecasts the next quarter to 15.4% error against a seasonal naive's 20.8%, and across the year that naive is last at 68.5% while Prophet leads. The blend reweights with it - half on Chronos2 near in, none of it far out. No model is simply the best one, which is the argument for scoring every node and every horizon rather than picking a favourite and living with it.
The same runs drawn against the actuals, seven years of them. Where a model could not score a window its line breaks rather than bridging the gap. The dark reference line is actual demand, promotions and all - the models are fitted on a smoothed series, so a promotional week is a spike they were never shown, and the gap at one is the honest size of it.
Drag Scenario into Rows and two saved plans sit one per line, recomputed server-side from the tidy fact table. Here an upside plan carrying a +12% revenue goal is set against its base, month by month - the kind of thing you want to see before you commit the buy. It runs in-process on your own machine, and it exports straight to Excel.
A topline forecast is only useful once it is split the way you actually buy. Every level of your hierarchy gets its own share of its parent, seeded from history and editable in place. Sale periods are their own columns, not smeared across the month that contains them - so Black Friday lifting one category from 49% to 52% while another gives share back is a number you can see and change, not an assumption buried in a weekly average.
The last mile most tools leave to a spreadsheet. Approved forecasts become buy quantities per vendor and week, walked forward period by period - opening stock, inbound, buys, transfers and demand down to ending units. Every week that needs a human says so in colour: amber where cover falls under target, red where the stock runs out and the buy could not close the gap. A clean plan shows neither. Cover runs as a sawtooth around your target rather than sitting on it - an order has to carry the weeks until the next one lands as well as the target itself, so the week stock arrives reads high and draws down from there.
Pricing
Three planners are included in the base price, so a team can start without counting heads. Add more whenever you need them. Checkout is handled by Stripe and your download link is issued the moment payment clears.
PlanCore License
$4,800per year
3 seats included
$4,800 a year, three seats included · +$300 per extra seat · 10+ seats priced with you directly
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Digitally code-signed and verified by Windows before it runs, published with a SHA-256 checksum, and fully offline after download. Upgrades install in place and never touch your data.
Support & setup
No ticket queues. Email lands directly with me, and every license includes a hands-on setup session.
FAQ
Immediately after checkout you land on a page with your personal download
link for the latest PlanCore-Setup.exe, plus install
instructions. You'll also get a Stripe receipt by email, and I'll follow up
to schedule your setup call.
The installer is digitally code-signed, so Windows can verify the publisher before running it, and each release ships with a SHA-256 checksum you can verify yourself. It's a large download (~1 GB) because the entire forecasting stack is bundled - nothing is fetched at runtime.
No. PlanCore is fully offline after installation. Forecasting runs on your machine, your workbooks stay in your local app data folder, and the app never phones home - there is no telemetry of any kind.
When a new version ships you'll get an email with the same permanent download link. Run the new installer and it upgrades in place - your scenarios, workbooks, and settings are never touched.
Windows 10/11, 64-bit. 8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended for AI forecasting on larger datasets). No graphics card required: the forecasting stack ships CPU-only and runs on an ordinary work laptop.
If the machine does have a recent NVIDIA card, the installer offers to enable GPU acceleration for forecasting - it's a tick box during setup, and it downloads about 2.4 GB the one time. It's only offered for cards new enough to actually be faster, and if the card turns out not to work the installer puts the CPU version back on its own.
Get in touch - I'm happy to do a live demo on a screen share with your kind of data, and walk through whether it fits your workflow before you spend anything.
One installer. Every model. Your data stays yours.