Buy Lower. Sell Higher. With Less Risk.

We turn your daily operational decisions into a manageable financial asset, creating a durable and data-driven competitive advantage.

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Built for Real Financial Impact

Seize revenue opportunities your competitors can't see, protect your margins from market shocks, and de-risk your supply chain with predictive foresight.

2-6%

Transportation Cost Reduction

National Private Fleet

+$42M

Risk-Adjusted Annual Value

Global Food Manufacturer

5-15%

Margin Uplift

National Logistics Network

The Hidden Liabilities of Yesterday's Intelligence

Every company that makes and moves physical goods has valuable financial options hidden within its operations. Without the right tools, these options become unmanaged risks, creating significant and often invisible costs that erode your bottom line.

Perception

The Cost of Poor Vision

When you can't distinguish causal signals from market noise, your strategy is guided by flawed data. This leads to a constant state of reaction, buying inputs at the peak and selling products into a falling market.

Prediction

The Cost of No Foresight

Standard tools like spreadsheets can't price the "Time Value" of your operational flexibility, leaving millions in potential profit on the table. This unmanaged asset represents a significant opportunity cost and introduces risk from manual errors.

Performance

The Cost of Slow Action

In high-velocity markets, speed wins business. Relying on static rate cards or slow, manual analysis means you are constantly being outmaneuvered, losing valuable margin and market share to more agile competitors.

The alpha factor(y)™

Our alpha factor(y)™ platform is your strategic co-pilot, an engine of foresight that gives your team the confidence to make faster, more profitable decisions.

Perceive: The Data Advantage

By integrating your data with our exclusive foundation of 750k+ proprietary causal indicators, we create a complete market picture that competitors cannot replicate, allowing you to see the true signals that drive your market.

Predict: The Analytical Advantage

We apply Wall Street science to price the "Time Value" of your operational flexibility, allowing you to capture profit from market volatility. Our economic machine learning models go beyond simple forecasting to show you the total economic value of every decision.

Position: The Decision Advantage

Our models are not a black box; we deliver clear, auditable recommendations for dynamic pricing, optimal sourcing, and hedging strategies that empower your teams to turn foresight into profitable action.

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Position Your Entire Organization to Win

Our platform provides a unified source of foresight that empowers teams to turn their functional roles into strategic advantages.

For Procurement

By turning their biggest cost centers into offensive assets.

For Operations

By connecting production to real-time market signals to drive efficiency.

For Sales

By turning negotiations into data-driven conversations that capture maximum value.

For Executive Strategy

By turning strategic planning into a data-driven simulation of future market outcomes.

A De-Risked Path to Value

Our staged engagement model is designed to prove value quickly and ensure a seamless path to enterprise-wide impact.

1

Proof-of-Value

5-Day Engagement

We start by validating our models against your historical data on a key business problem, delivering a clear, quantitative business case with no integration required.

2

Proof-of-Concept

4-6 Week Engagement

Next, we deploy an application for a specific team, running in parallel with your existing systems to demonstrate live ROI and build user trust.

3

Production

Recurring Partnership & Support

With value proven, we move to a full-scale deployment, integrating our platform into your core workflows to create a durable, enterprise-wide decision advantage.

From Our Desk: Insights & White Papers

Explore our research on how decision intelligence is transforming core industrial markets.

Dairy Pricing & Hedging

An analysis of dairy pricing through the lens of commodity market strategies, adapting energy industry methodologies to systematically manage risk and protect margins.

Download White Paper

Dairy Complex Periodic Table

A comprehensive visual framework that organizes all 48 critical dairy market components by their functional relationships and market structure.

Download the Infographic

A New Methodology for Fleet Profitability

Introducing a Decision Intelligence framework that enhances fleet operations through predictive analytics, transforming a strategic asset into a powerful profit driver.

Download White Paper

The Team Behind the Technology

We help Companies that Make and Move Physical Goods Become more Profitable.

We are veterans of Wall Street and enterprise tech. We've built high-performance trading systems for the world's most demanding environments. Now, we're bringing that same expertise to companies that make and move the world.

Stephen Pounds

Stephen Pounds

CEO

Multi-time founder with 20+ years leading investing, AI/ML, and data science organizations at ING, ICE/NYSE, and McKesson.

John Pattison

John Pattison

COO

15+ years in consulting, finance, and startups, including co-founding a cultivated seafood company acquired by Upside Foods in 2022.

Jason Cardinal

Jason Cardinal

Head of Engineering

Over a decade of software engineering experience designing production-grade distributed systems for hundreds of installed users.

Zach Wood

Zach Wood

Head of Client Services

15+ years experience in product strategy, previously at ICE/NYSE and most recently managing a $3M P&L at a Series-D startup.

Ben Faust

Ben Faust

Head of Product

25+ years product leader in retail and tech with proven experience delivering multiple platform solutions from concept to launch.

Kelsi Blauvelt

Kelsi Blauvelt

Head of AI

12+ years building advanced AI/ML systems for the defense and commercial sectors at Rebellion Defense and Northrop Grumman.

Orion Yeung

Orion Yeung

Data Scientist

Background in particle physics research, specializing in developing data workflows for real-time experimental analysis.