● BORON 001 · Private beta v2.4 · 2026.04

Build your
supply chain
brain.

A composable analytics platform for supply chain. Forecast demand, simulate inventory, optimize networks, segment your catalog — your team builds the analysis on a visual canvas, then shares it as apps every planner can run. No code. No black box.

70+
Analytics Nodes
9
Method Groups
1
Canvas, Every Decision
0
Lines of Code Required
boron.ai / acme / demand-forecast-q1
INGEST
Snowflake
CSV Upload
Postgres
TRANSFORM
Filter
Pivot
Join
FORECAST
ARIMA
LightGBM
Ensemble
OUTPUT
Safety Stock
Export
SOURCE sales_history 12.3M rows TRANSFORM Pivot · SKU × Week 42K × 104 TRANSFORM Join covariates promo · holidays FORECAST ARIMA · 12W running · 00:24 PLAN Safety Stock service level 95%
ZOOM 100% 5 NODES · 5 EDGES
ARIMA · step 4 / 7
MAPE 8.4%
THE WORKBENCH · demand forecast, built visually
§ 01 THE SHIFT

Supply chain stopped being a process. It became an experiment that never ends.

Your best people already re-forecast before every S&OP meeting, re-segment the catalog, simulate an inventory policy, test a network change against a disruption. But they do it in tools that were never built for it — so the decision gets made late, on numbers nobody fully trusts, with logic nobody can see.

SPREADSHEETS
Fast, then fragile

Set the parameters once, run them for a year. Then demand swings, lead times move, and the formulas can't keep up.

TO FIRST RESULT
fast
CEILING
low
REUSE
never
ENTERPRISE SUITES
A year to change

Powerful and rigid. A change is a change request. The decision waits on a roadmap written in a vacuum.

TIMELINE
12–18mo
FLEXIBILITY
rigid
LOGIC
black box
BORON
Built for the way it works now

Fast, iterative, analytical — and built so the people closest to the problem can do the work themselves.

SETUP
same day
METHODS
built in
LOGIC
always visible
§ 02 WHAT BORON IS

A canvas where data becomes a decision.

Your team drags analytics nodes onto a canvas, connects them into a pipeline, and runs it — turning raw history into clean forecasts, inventory simulations, network plans, and answers a planner can act on. Connect your data. Compose the analysis. Run it and read it.

01 · BUILD

A canvas that thinks
in supply chain.

Drag data in. Wire up a forecast. Add segmentation. Layer in inventory logic. Every node is a real supply chain method — forecasters, segmentation, inventory simulation, routing — and every connection is typed so your workflow can't break silently.

  • Supply chain math, built in
    70+ nodes across 9 method groups. No notebooks, no model from scratch.
  • Typed connections
    Every forecaster speaks the same column language. Edges validate at design time.
  • AI-assisted, not AI-dependent
    The copilot suggests the next node and explains a result. Your team decides.
WORKFLOW · sku_abc_segmentation.boron 9 nodes · valid ✓
SOURCEsales TRANSFORMFilter TRANSFORMPivot TRANSFORMAggregate ABCA XYZX Margin$ TYPED LINEAGE · 1 source → 3 transforms → 3 segment outputs
TYPED EDGE · DataFrame<sku_id, week, units>
Output shape validated against the next node's input schema.
LIVE RUN · demand-forecast-q1 · 00:42 elapsed
UNITS / WEEK · SKU-0142 MAPE 8.4%
NOW
snowflake.query340ms
filter.rows12ms
pivot.sku_week88ms
forecast.arimarunning
02 · RUN

An engine built
for scale.

Transformations run server-side on a columnar engine; heavier algorithms run in isolated compute. A workflow that's correct on a thousand rows is still correct, and fast, on tens of millions. You watch it run live — each node lights up as it executes.

10s of M
ROWS, STILL FAST
deterministic
SAME INPUT, SAME ANSWER
live
PER-NODE RUN STATUS
none
INFRA TO MANAGE
03 · SHARE

Build once.
Run everywhere.

Anyone on your team can build a workflow on the canvas — then publish it as an app: a clean, guided interface with just the inputs that matter. Planners across teams, sites, and geographies run the same analysis on their own data, without touching the logic underneath.

THE PAYOFF
Build it once. Run it everywhere. Trust it every time. Update in one place — not in fourteen spreadsheets and five regions.
§ 03 THE NODE LIBRARY

Supply chain math, built in.
Not coded by you.

Every node is a real method — forecasting, segmentation, inventory, network optimization, reconciliation — ready to drag in and run. No notebooks. No model from scratch. No PhD on the payroll. 70+ nodes today, growing every month.

FORECASTING
Baseline ARIMA · ETS · Theta LightGBM · XGBoost Ensemble Croston · SBA · TSB
5
BACKTEST & SELECT
Tournament Backtester Champion Selector Accuracy Reporter Residual Bias Model Registry
5
SEGMENTATION
ABC · XYZ · ABC-XYZ Zero-Pattern (ADI/CV²)
2
INVENTORY & SIM
Inventory Simulation Scenario Comparison
2
NETWORK & GEO
Geocoding · Distance Routing Map Visualization
3
PREP & DIAGNOSTICS
Outlier Detection Stockout Imputation Decomposition Seasonality Profiler Calendar Normalizer
5
POST-PROCESSING
Hierarchical Reconciler Horizon Aggregator Manual Override Lifecycle Manager Forecast Exporter
5
TRANSFORMATION
clean join pivot unpivot group rank normalize reshape + dozens more
30
§ 04 USE CASES

One platform. Every supply chain decision.

Boron isn't built for a single workflow. It's built for the analysis behind every major supply chain call — demand, inventory, network, and the strategic questions in between.

USE CASE 01
Demand Forecasting
Replace your spreadsheet forecasting process.

Profile demand, clean and unconstrain it, then run a tournament of statistical, ML, and intermittent-demand models. The champion selector picks the best model per SKU on backtested accuracy.

A forecast that's accurate, explainable, and defensible — run the same way every cycle.
USE CASE 02
Inventory Simulation
Test the policy before you live with it.

Simulate policies against real demand and lead-time uncertainty before you commit. See the trade-off between service level and holding cost explicitly. Roll it out as an app per category or region.

Inventory decisions made on evidence, with the cost of every service-level choice visible up front.
USE CASE 03
Network & Logistics
Model the chain, not just the spreadsheet.

Bring geocoding, distance matrices, routing, and map visualization onto the same canvas as your forecasts. Ask where a facility should sit, what a lane disruption costs, how flows should shift.

Network decisions grounded in the same trusted data as the rest of your planning.
USE CASE 04
Segmentation & SKU Strategy
Not every SKU deserves equal attention.

Run ABC, XYZ, ABC-XYZ, and lifecycle segmentation in a single pass. See concentration risk, find the SKUs driving the business, flag the ones that should run on autopilot — or be retired.

Effort, policy, and method matched to each segment, instead of a one-size-fits-none default.
USE CASE 05
S&OP & Scenario Planning
Walk in with a view, not an argument.

Build the review as a workflow once, publish it as an app, and run it every cycle on fresh data. Bring real scenarios — growth, disruption, recession — side by side on the KPIs that matter.

An S&OP process faster to prepare, consistent month to month, grounded in analysis everyone trusts.
USE CASE 06
Exception Monitoring
Act on problems early, on logic you control.

Run workflows on a schedule, watch KPIs against thresholds, and surface the exceptions that need a human — a forecast drifting, a stockout risk building, a lane slipping. A control tower from parts you can see.

A team that acts on exceptions early — not a dashboard it forgets to open.
§ 05 WHY YOU CAN TRUST IT

A good decision is insight you can act on, times trust you've earned.

Plenty of tools will give you a number. The harder question a leader has to answer: can I stand behind it in the room? A black box gives you an answer and asks for faith. Boron gives you an answer and shows its work.

Visible

Every transformation, model, simulation, and override is on the canvas. No hidden steps.

Traceable

Follow any number back to the data it came from. The forecast shows its work.

Yours

Your logic, your data, your workflows. Exportable, not locked in.

§ 06 WHERE BORON FITS

You've tried the alternatives. Here's the honest comparison.

A supply chain decision has to be the same every cycle, traceable, and made by someone who can defend it. Here's how the options stack up against that bar.

Spreadsheets
Enterprise suites
AI agents
Code & notebooks
Boron
◆ YOU ARE HERE
Time to first result
Fast, then fragile
Months to a year
Instant, then unreliable
Days, if you can code
Same day
Real supply chain methods
Build by hand
Built in, rigid
Improvised each time
Build by hand
Built in, composable
Who can use it
Anyone (badly)
A trained few
Anyone who can prompt
Engineers only
Your whole team
Deterministic & repeatable
Yes
Yes
No — probabilistic
Yes
Yes
Can you see the logic?
Buried in formulas
Often a black box
Hidden in the model
Yes, if you read code
Always, on the canvas
Changes when business changes
Manual, everywhere
A change request
Re-prompt and hope
A code deploy
One workflow, instantly
A NOTE ON AI

You can hand your data to an AI agent and ask for a forecast today. Ask again tomorrow and you may get a different one. That's the nature of probabilistic tools — and it's exactly wrong for supply chain, where the same inputs must produce the same decision, every cycle, in a way you can audit. Boron is deterministic by design. It does use AI — to suggest the next node, explain a result, and accelerate the build — but the AI advises; your team decides. Boron augments your people. It never asks you to take an unexplainable number on faith.

§ 07 WHO IT'S FOR

Built for the people who own the number.

The Supply Chain Leader
VP · DIRECTOR · HEAD OF PLANNING

A capability you bring to your team. Run the advanced analysis that used to need a data science function — and make network, inventory, and scenario calls on analysis built in the open.

The Demand & Supply Planner
LIVES IN THE CYCLE

The analysis you redo every period becomes an app you run in minutes — freeing your time for judgment, not janitor work.

The Logistics & Network Planner
FACILITIES · LANES · FLOWS

Geocoding, distance matrices, routing, and network simulation on the same canvas as the forecasts that drive them.

The Analyst / Builder
THE ONE PEOPLE COME TO

The first tool that matches how you think — compose the method, run it, ship it to the team, get your work out of a file only you understand.

Data Science & IT
GOVERNANCE · BACKLOG RELIEF

One-off analytics requests leave your queue. The business gets a governed, auditable, version-controlled place to build.

The Consultant
EXPERTISE IS YOUR PRODUCT

Codify your methods into durable, reusable workflows you deploy to every client — instead of rebuilding the same model each engagement.

§ 08 WHERE WE ARE

Early, and serious about it.

Boron is in early access. We're working hand-in-hand with a small number of supply chain teams to build the platform around real planning problems — not a roadmap written in a vacuum.

You get unusual influence over what we build, and direct access to the people building it. We'd rather earn a small number of teams who genuinely rely on Boron than chase logos we can't stand behind.

Explore the co-build program
THE DEPTH IS ALREADY REAL
70+ analytics nodes — demand, inventory, network, segmentation
1 columnar engine built to scale past where spreadsheets quit
workflow-to-app reuse — no one else in supply chain offers it
What we're looking for now is the right teams to build the rest with.
● BORON 001 · EARLY ACCESS

Your next planning cycle could run on
analysis your whole team trusts.

See Boron on your own data, or just see how it works. No procurement marathon required.