Developing a truly configurable architecture for demand modeling requires a blend of deep industry expertise and advanced technical sophistication. Creating sales forecasts or demand statements is challenging due to the volume of internal and external data that needs to be tracked, often leading to inaccurate results and internal debates.

SumOpti solves this problem. Instead of relying on manual tracking or static models, SumOpti AI automatically identifies and surfaces the most relevant signals from noisy datasets. At the core of this capability is our Dynamic Autonomous Planning system (DAP) — an AI-driven solution shaped by the insights of our domain experts, who bring extensive experience from working with leading companies, including:

SumOpti’s AI-driven Dynamic Autonomous Planning (DAP) system delivers powerful, data-driven capabilities for sophisticated forecasting, allocation, and product-mix decision modeling. It enables companies—especially those with broad product lines and hundreds of SKUs—to simulate outcomes quickly and accurately across multiple variables and business priorities.

For example, SumOpti DAP can optimize complex, multivariable scenarios involving 100 nodes, 1000 dies, 100,000 master product numbers—in just one second. In contrast, traditional systems often require minutes to hours to process far simpler scenarios and struggle to handle complex product-mix, channel, or region-based planning.

SumOpti’s Dynamic Autonomous Planning (DAP) system is mission-critical business software that delivers 95% planning certainty, driving revenue and minimizing excess costs.

Initial funding came from two customers, Network Appliance and Alcatel-Lucent, through milestone-based payments. Soon after, SanDisk and NVIDIA also became customers, contributing to the company’s growth and validating the system’s ability to outperform traditional ERP systems in speed, accuracy, and adaptability. SumOpti was instrumental in optimizing allocation processes for these early clients, paving the way for the development of innovative, AI-driven solutions. In 2017, SumOpti conducted a pilot with NVIDIA on autonomous planning, and in 2018, deployed an autonomous data collection system into production.

SumOpti developed an innovative approach to forecasting. At its core is a Foundational AI Engine, trained on industry-scale datasets to detect innumerable shapes—and even predicts demand for new products with no historical data.

SumOpti was founded to close a critical gap in enterprise planning: ERP systems manage past data but cannot plan or optimize future outcomes. As a result, companies often rely on spreadsheets for high-stakes decisions—such as forecasting, allocation, product mix, channel strategy, and regional planning. SumOpti replaces this static process with dynamic, AI-driven optimization.

SumOpti drives higher throughput through an intuitive user-interaction model within a self-service SaaS system tailored for specific workflows. Its uniquely flexible architecture is highly configurable to support company-specific processes and a broad range of use cases. The system is fast, scalable, and purpose-built to handle complex datasets with ease.

By consolidating capabilities into a state-of-the-art full-stack architecture — from silicon constraints and data integration to user-driven planning scenarios — SumOpti empowers users to manage variability, allocate resources, evaluate alternatives, and understand trade-offs—efficiently, effectively, and all in one place.