Kat Hutcheson.

Supply Planning Agent

An AI agent in your own stack that owns replenishment planning: demand run-rates, inventory, reorder signals, packaging, supplier emails, and what-if scenarios, with out-of-stock flags before they cost you a stockist.

Coming soon. A self-install kit you own, or installed with me. Waitlist gets first pick and founding pricing.

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An agent that owns replenishment planning, the job most small CPG teams run in a spreadsheet one person understands and everyone fears. It’s the system I run at oac. What you’re buying is the planning judgement inside it: how much cover to hold, when a run-rate shift is real, when to pull an order forward. That comes from my years planning at PepsiCo, set up around your business. You keep the judgement calls. The agent does the counting and the chasing. The goal: you run it yourself, support when you want it.

The problem

  • You find out about a stockout after it's happened
  • Run rates live in your head and a spreadsheet you don't trust
  • Every order to your co-man is a panic the night before
  • If you're off for a week, nobody can answer "do we need to order?"

What it does

  • Demand run-rates per SKU, with overrides for promos and seasonality
  • One live inventory position: on-hand, inbound, committed
  • Replenishment planning: what to order, how much, by when, with lead times and MOQs built in
  • Plans packaging and components alongside product
  • Drafts the reorder email to your supplier for you to approve
  • Runs what-if scenarios: price changes, promos, lead-time slips
  • Out-of-stock flags and a short reorder digest you'll actually read

The install

  • Three weeks, done with you
  • Week 1: audit, clean and structure your data
  • Week 2: build and calibrate the agent on your real history
  • Week 3: go live, tune alerts, train your owner, hand over the runbook
  • Then ongoing: monthly health checks and fixes as the business changes

Who it’s for

  • CPG brands on Shopify, DTC and/or wholesale, usually working with a co-manufacturer or co-packer.
  • Built for the spreadsheet stage: real stockout pain, no ERP, no planner yet. It runs in the Shopify and sheets you already have. Nothing to migrate.
  • On an ERP or MRP with a planning team? You’ve outgrown this.
  • It plans what to reorder and when. Factory scheduling (line sequencing, changeovers, batch runs) stays out of scope.
  • It flags and recommends; a human signs off on every order.

What you need

  • A Shopify store and a spreadsheet workspace you own. On something else? We can talk it through on the call.
  • A few months of order history is ideal (it can work with less).
  • A named owner, a couple of hours a week during the install.
  • Shopify admin access (read) and supplier basics: lead times and MOQs.

FAQs

Is this software I'm buying?

No. It's built into accounts you own: your Shopify data, your spreadsheets, your AI tooling. Nothing of mine runs it, nothing I can switch off. The monthly fee buys my support.

What if my data is a mess?

Expected. Week one exists because everyone's data is a mess. Cleaning and structuring it is part of the install.

Will the agent place orders or contact my suppliers?

Not at the start. It drafts the reorder email for you to review and send, and a human approves every order. Want to give it more rope later? We can expand it.

Can my team maintain it, or do I need you forever?

You can maintain it. The handover includes a runbook and a training session, in tools your team already uses. Support is there when the business changes or something upstream breaks.

How to start

The kit and installs open later this year.

Send me a line about your store and I'll come to you first when they open, with founding pricing for the first cohort.

Join the waitlist

First pick and founding pricing for the first cohort. Thirty seconds, six quick questions.

or email [email protected]

Want to work together before then? 1:1 AI coaching is open now.