Transform your business with trading-caliber forecasting, pricing, and risk management. Our alpha factor(y)™ platform brings Wall Street intelligence to manufacturing and logistics.
Reduce excess inventory costs through precise demand forecasting
Avoid costly stockouts with predictive analytics
Dynamic adjustments to your specific market profile
Bringing Wall Street-level market intelligence to companies that build and move the world
Our name reflects our mission: confidently navigating market volatility to outperform
To ford a river
Moving forward through uncertainty with confidence and purpose
To outperform the market
Generating superior returns through intelligent decision-making
Vadar Alpha means confidently navigating market volatility to make smarter, faster, higher-return decisions. We bring Wall Street-level intelligence to companies that build and move the world, transforming uncertainty into competitive advantage.
Decades of experience building high-performance forecasting technology for financial markets
Platform dynamically adjusts to your specific demand and pricing profile
Every forecast includes built-in validation to quantify confidence and minimize risk
While Wall Street has used AI for decades, companies that make and move physical goods are stuck making billion-dollar decisions with outdated tools and incomplete data.
Excess inventory costs due to inaccurate forecasting
Stockouts and missed opportunities from poor demand prediction
Unhedged positions in volatile commodity markets
Every day without accurate forecasting costs your business money. While your competitors struggle with Excel spreadsheets, you could be leveraging the same sophisticated models that power Wall Street's most successful trading operations.
Our platform brings sophisticated forecasting, pricing, and risk management directly to manufacturing and logistics companies through economic machine learning and unique datasets.
Advanced AI models trained on decades of market data and economic indicators
Live data processing with continuous model updates and market monitoring
Exclusive datasets and market intelligence unavailable to traditional tools
Choose the right plan for your business needs
Experience powerful insights on your own product with key pro tools.
Unlock advanced forecasting and automation for up to 20 products with full functionality.
Scale without limits using our fastest, most powerful solution tailored to your business.
Working with forward-thinking companies and organizations to transform how physical goods industries operate
Partnering with innovative companies to bring Wall Street-grade intelligence to physical goods industries
Experienced leaders bringing Wall Street-caliber expertise to physical goods industries
Co-Founder, CEO
Second time founder with over two decades at the intersection of applied math, AI, software engineering, and innovation, including leadership roles in R&D and AI/ML product development at ING, ICE, Mckesson, and most recently as the Product and Engineering executive at Rebellion Defense. He is the co-founder of a clean tech company focused on recycling and sustainability. He has authored multiple patents for systems applying mathematics and statistics and helped shape electronic options markets at ICE/NYSE.
Co-Founder, COO
John is the former CEO/Co-founder of Wisconsin-based Cultured Decadence, a cultivated seafood company acquired by Upside Foods in 2022. He served as an Army officer for four years and spent three years in China working for Edelman and FTI Consulting in various operations and business advisory roles. He has spent over 15 years in consulting, finance and startups in New York, California, China and Wisconsin. John is an alum of gener8tor's flagship accelerator and numerous WEDC/CTC startup programs, and currently volunteers with MERLIN Mentors and UW-Milwaukee Research Foundation. John a graduate of UW-Milwaukee (BA) and NYU-Stern (MBA).
Co-Founder, Head of Client Services
Over fifteen years turning innovative ideas into hardened software products. He spent 9+ years at fintech leader ICE/NYSE where he led the execution of the global R&D portfolio, after which he joined FIS to spearhead customer success and change management for the Capital Markets vertical. Most recently he joined consumer data analytics startup HundredX where he built out the team accountable for enterprise software development and professional services.
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering
A software engineer and innovator with over a decade of experience designing production-grade distributed systems and leading lean, agile development across industries. He scaled a real-estate evaluation platform from 10 to 600+ B2B clients and grew an airport software business from 1 to 40 clients in 2.5 years, supporting hundreds of thousands of users and tens of millions of data points. A methodical problem-solver, he partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on AI-in-education research and volunteered with Microsoft's TEALS program teaching computer science to rural high schools.
Head of Product
A seasoned product leader with over 25 years of experience in retail and technology, specializing in digital transformation across buying, planning, operations, and e-commerce. He has led the creation of AI-powered tools that have transformed how retailers manage product assortments, optimize store layouts, and deliver personalized digital content at scale. With a proven ability to take ideas from concept to launch, Ben has successfully delivered multiple end-to-end platform solutions that streamlined operations, improved speed-to-market, and drove significant sales growth.