The Predictive Suite for restaurants

Forecast like the big chains.
Custom fit to you.

The national chains haven't guessed in years — they forecast every shift and every order with real data science. SkAI gives operators of any size the same edge: revenue, labor, and ordering, predicted.

Trained on days of data restaurants, QSR to fine-dining Tested walk-forward, out-of-sample
The Tools you Can Currently Buy

Most "forecasting" tools are an
eight-week average with a logo on it.

The big chains build real models in-house. Everyone else gets sold software that averages last month and waits for a manager to eyeball the rest. In a business where one bad guess costs you the whole night, that's not a forecast — it's a hope.

The tools you can buy

Average → adjust → hope

They average recent weekdays, drop the odd outlier, maybe add a year-over-year bump — then wait for a manager to flag holidays, weather, and events by hand.

// static · manual · one concept
SkAI™

Learn → predict → calibrate

A machine-learning model that factors in holidays, weather, events, and guest satisfaction automatically — and recalibrates as your business moves. What the big chains built, without the in-house data team.

// automated · multi-concept · proven
The suite

Three modules. One forecasting engine.

Each module turns a daily guess into a calibrated prediction — and hands hours back to the people running your floor.

MODULE 01

Predictive Revenue

A forecast accurate enough to build a week around.
  • Daily and daypart sales by location
  • Holidays, weather, and events incorporated automatically
  • The foundation every other decision runs on
MODULE 02

Predictive Labor

Schedules that write themselves, staffed to real demand.
  • Complete, detailed schedules calibrated to your operation
  • Staff to forecasted demand instead of a gut call
  • Hours back to managers, every single week
MODULE 03

Predictive Ordering

Order only what you'll sell — kitchen to bar.
  • Pars matched to demand on the cycles you actually run
  • Coverage tuned by spoilage class to cut waste
  • Recalibrated daily as sales come in

Always improving — model retraining and improvements to your plan’s modules are included; new modules are a tier upgrade.

Why believe it

Real machine learning — and the results to prove it.

SkAI™ is trained on days of data from restaurants, QSR to fine-dining, and tested the honest way — walk-forward and out-of-sample, validated across 149 locations — so the model is never graded on a future it has already seen.

more accurate than the leading tools
head-to-head wins vs. those tools
weekly WAPE — about 4× tighter than published research
wins in head-to-head battle with seasoned in-house managers
Pillar 01 · vs. the tools

Apples to apples

Same locations, same dates. SkAI™'s automated model against the market-leading scheduling and forecasting tools.

more accurate · won
Pillar 02 · vs. academia

Tighter than published research

Recent academic models report around error — on an easier, narrower problem than SkAI™ was built for.

weekly WAPE · ~ tighter
Pillar 03 · vs. your managers

Better than the people who know it best

Across locations and in sales, managers ran light every week. SkAI™ was statistically unbiased.

beat in-house times
The math

It pencils at any size.

Plug in your portfolio. You'll see the savings range instantly — then we'll prove the exact number, free, on your own data.

$2.5M
$500K$5M$10M
Estimated annual savings · your portfolio
per location, per year
manager hrs/week back
2–4%
operating-margin gain
Want the full breakdown for one of your locations? Let us perform a pro-bono analysis to see how the numbers shake out. No obligation — just a “look under the hood” by SkAI™.
Private by design

AI accuracy — without handing your numbers to a black box.

SkAI™'s forecasting is real machine learning that runs privately on your own data, in a controlled environment. Your numbers are never piped into a public AI/LLM.

Your data, yours

Runs privately on your data

The prediction engine processes your data in a secured, access-controlled environment — encrypted and sanitized. It stays yours, and we'll delete it on request.

Your models

Trained on your data, kept separate

Your data is used to train and configure your predictive models. It is kept separate from other customer data, and can only be used to improve the SkAI™ technology on a fully stripped, de-identified basis.

Not a chatbot

A prediction engine, not an LLM

SkAI™ forecasts demand with machine learning — not a general AI chatbot guessing from a prompt, and not your data shipped to one.

Plans

Packages that scale with what you turn on.

Start with the forecast everything else runs on, then add labor and ordering as you grow. We'll size the right plan — and prove the ROI on your own locations — in a free evaluation.

Solo
The forecast every other decision runs on.
  • Predictive Revenue forecasting
  • Live dashboards and automated reports
  • White-glove onboarding
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Forecast
Forecast the demand, then staff to it.
  • Everything in Solo
  • Predictive Labor & auto-scheduling
  • Hours-saved reporting
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Operate
The full predictive engine, kitchen to bar.
  • Everything in Forecast
  • Predictive Ordering & par optimization
  • Item-level demand forecasts
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Enterprise
Predictions, AI commentary, and an analyst.
  • Everything in Operate
  • AI commentary & recipe integration
  • Monthly analyst review
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Plans scale with your locations and the modules you turn on. Start with a free evaluation and we'll model the savings on your own numbers.

See what forecasting like the big chains does to your P&L.

Request a complimentary, SkAI™-powered evaluation of your business — we'll show you the accuracy and the savings on your own locations before you commit to anything.