Superintelligence for Your Supply Chain: Our Vision
What do we mean by "superintelligence"?
You've probably heard about self-driving cars navigating city streets, and you might have asked ChatGPT to help draft you an email. These are impressive systems, but there's another category of AI entirely – superintelligent systems that solve problems no human could tackle alone.
The clearest example might be AlphaFold, which won the 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry. In one year, AlphaFold correctly predicted the shape of 200 million proteins. To put this in context, this is one thousand times more productive than all of the world’s scientists working on this problem over the last 50 years. Understanding protein shapes is essential for understanding disease and developing new medicine.
Each dot represents approximately 170,000 protein shapes.
You might assume that lots of scientists were replaced as a result of this technological revolution. You’d be wrong. In fact, researchers became dramatically more effective with AlphaFold handling the number-crunching. A researcher studying Alzheimer's can now examine hundreds of protein interactions instead of spending months of painstaking lab work just to analyze one protein. Thanks to superintelligent systems, researchers finally have the tools to do their job properly.
Why does a supply chain need superintelligence?
A typical supply chain involves hundreds of SKUs moving through dozens of locations, sold by multiple retail partners/channels, influenced by unpredictable variables, all affecting each other in real-time: weather, competitors, social trends, economic shifts, and countless other factors.
As we’ve written elsewhere on our blog the sheer complexity of this problem will overwhelm common supply chain planning systems and demand forecasting software, no matter whether you’re using ChatGPT, the best spreadsheets, or the latest AI Agents.
This is precisely why superintelligence is needed. Just as no human could manually calculate protein folding across millions of atomic interactions, no planner can simultaneously optimize millions of supply chain variables.
Our Approach: Purpose-Built AI for Each Customer
This brings us to our vision at Omnifold: Superintelligence for your supply chain.
Just as AlphaFold gave every biologist computational superpowers, we build AI systems that give every supply chain planner the ability to optimize across millions of variables simultaneously. Here's how we create a superintelligent system customized for your specific operations:
Setting Your Objective Function: The system is taught what objectives matter to your business. It is critical that the AI knows what to optimize for, and that problem is specific to you. Coca-Cola will have different objectives than Pepsi, even if they are both very large beverage companies.
Network Mapping: Our AI learns how your products, SKUs, distribution centers, and retail partners interconnect. It understands warehouse constraints, retailer relationships, product cannibalization, and seasonality effects – ensuring forecasts reflect your real operational dynamics.
Data Acquisition: Omnifold acquires and ingests all possible data sources that could improve forecast accuracy – from your internal systems (ERP, CRM, Marketing, WMS, TMS) to third-party feeds including weather, point-of-sale, news, credit card spend, satellite imagery, and more.
Bespoke Training: Omnifold trains a self-improving AI, purpose-built to maximize forecast accuracy for your unique supply chain, and optimize planning decisions. The result is an AI system that is:
Accurate: Forecasts at the finest granularity (e.g. SKU / Location / Customer / Distributor) with unmatched precision
Adaptive: Re-planning happens instantly when conditions change - the AI takes context from planners and systems, and automatically updates the forecast
Autonomous: Continuously learns from its own performance, uncovering new gains without human intervention
Today, the best supply chain planners spend 80% of their time wrestling with reactive replanning and 20% on proactive strategy. At Omnifold we aim to flip this ratio. Contact us if you want to stop fighting your tools, and start shaping your market.