Predict, Plan, Perform: How DEUNA’s Aware AI Transforms Operational Efficiency

New York City / Mexico City, January 29th, 2025 In a world where speed and precision define competitive advantage, businesses are racing to anticipate demand with greater accuracy. A study by MIT and Insight Partners reveals that companies integrating real-time operations with data-driven decision-making outperform their peers, achieving 62% higher revenue growth and 97% higher profit margins. Yet, for many businesses, especially in industries like quick service restaurants (QSRs) and retail, demand forecasting remains an ongoing struggle, leading to costly inefficiencies.

Recent studies estimated the total cost of inventory distortion at $1.77 trillion USD, highlighting the significant financial impact of overstock, stockouts, and mismanaged supply chains on businesses. As a result, inventory management has become one of the top strategic priorities for businesses.

The Real Cost of Getting Demand Wrong

Without accurate demand projections, businesses face major operational challenges that eat into margins and hurt customer satisfaction:

• Excess waste and lost revenue – Overstocking leads to perishable goods going to waste, while understocking results in lost sales and frustrated customers.
• Labor inefficiencies – Poor demand visibility makes it difficult to schedule staff optimally, leading to either overstaffing (higher costs) or understaffing (longer wait times and operational chaos).
• Longer prep times and slower fulfillment – Many businesses scramble to react to unexpected demand spikes, slowing down production and delivery. In the food industry, every extra minute of wait time translates into higher cart abandonment and lower customer retention
• Inconsistent customer experience – Customers expect reliability. Running out of popular products or facing long wait times weakens trust and loyalty

How DEUNA’s Aware AI Solves This Problem

DEUNA’s Aware AI is the first commerce-aware AI designed to transform data into unstoppable growth in real time. Unlike generic AI solutions, it leverages a sector-specific AI and a multi-agent system designed to understand the unique context of each merchant. DEUNA’s Aware AI automates data ingestion and preparation from the source, eliminating data fragmentation that hinders traditional forecasting. By applying industry-specific machine learning models and dynamically identifying the most impactful initiatives through the multi-agent system, it ensures that businesses focus on what truly moves the needle. More importantly, Aware AI delivers these strategies in an easy-to-trigger way, ensuring that the right users can act on them effortlessly, driving efficiency and growth.

“Many companies still rely on outdated, suboptimal prediction methods or even intuition to make critical operational decisions—leading to inefficiencies that impact costs and service levels,” says Gabriel Adriazola, Head of Product Strategy at DEUNA. “DEUNA’s Aware AI leverages a multi-agent system and tailored machine learning models that focus on the key metrics businesses need to prioritize. The merchants we are already working with are seeing a 3.5x improvement in demand forecast accuracy and are rolling out pilots that will cut some operational cost lines by nearly 30%.”

High-Impact Use Cases: What Businesses Gain with DEUNA’s Aware AI

• Optimized order preparation and fulfillment – QSRs can reduce preparation times by up to 5 minutes during peak hours, ensuring faster service and greater throughput.
• Smarter labor planning – With better demand predictions, businesses can adjust staff schedules dynamically, ensuring the right number of workers are available at both peak and slow hours.
• Minimized waste and stockouts – By aligning inventory with actual demand, companies reduce food and product waste while preventing lost sales from stock shortages.
• Faster response to demand fluctuations – Unlike static forecasting models, DEUNA’s AI continuously adapts to real-time variables, enabling businesses to react instantly to demand shifts.

The impact of DEUNA’s Aware AI extends beyond demand forecasting. It also helps businesses drive growth in marketing and payments, optimizing customer segmentation, campaign execution, and fraud prevention. Discover how DEUNA’s Aware AI can help your business anticipate demand, optimize operations, and unlock new growth opportunities.

In an environment where competition is fierce and consumer expectations are constantly evolving, adopting advanced technologies like DEUNA’s Aware AI is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. Businesses that integrate this data and AI-driven approach into their operations don’t just streamline efficiency; they unlock new opportunities for sustainable, data-driven growth.

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