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About
Guac builds AI-powered demand forecasting and replenishment software for grocery retailers. Its platform forecasts sales at the SKU-and-store level and converts those forecasts into ordering and production-planning recommendations, with a focus on fresh grocery, reducing food waste, and improving product availability.
Market
Guac competes in AI-powered demand forecasting, replenishment, inventory optimization, and production-planning software for grocery retailers, with a particular focus on fresh and perishable operations. Its positioning is fresh-first and operational: it converts SKU- and store-level forecasts into ordering, production, allocation, and commissary recommendations. Guac differentiates through granular forecasts, hundreds of local and external demand signals, and workflows spanning stores, distribution centers, commissaries, and HQ teams rather than offering forecasting as a standalone tool.
Grocery retailers and supermarket operators of any size, especially businesses with fresh-food departments, multiple stores, distribution centers, commissaries, or central kitchens. Primary users and buyers include store teams, DC buyers, commissary and production-operations teams, and headquarters or supply-chain leaders.
At a Glance
Problem
Guac addresses the costly mismatch between grocery demand and fresh-food inventory. Poor forecasting hurts retailers’ bottom lines while also creating food waste, environmental and animal-welfare costs, and empty shelves. The central use case is helping grocers stock the right quantity of highly perishable products—such as ensuring that the perfect amount of guacamole is available—rather than overproducing and discarding food or understocking and losing sales.
Product / Service
Guac provides AI-powered demand forecasting, replenishment, ordering, and production-planning software for grocery retailers. Its recommendations help store teams and buyers order inventory faster and more accurately, while its production-planning algorithm recommends how much of each item to make using predicted demand, recipes, schedules, and other operational factors.
The benefit is a more precise fresh-operations workflow: retailers can reduce waste and improve product availability without relying solely on manual judgment or crude ordering rules. The available research describes Guac as working directly with grocery retailers, although it does not specify its pricing or implementation model.
Market
Guac competes in grocery-retail technology, specifically AI-driven demand forecasting, replenishment, fresh-inventory ordering, and production planning. The supplied research does not name specific competitors, so the closest competitive set is the broader category of grocery forecasting and inventory-management software rather than any one identified rival.
Guac is not presented as pre-revenue in the available evidence. It says it is working with forward-thinking grocery retailers, and its company profile identifies backing from Y Combinator, 1984 Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels associated with Instacart and Citadel Securities. However, the research does not disclose customer counts, revenue, or other quantitative traction metrics.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
1984 Ventures
Recent News
Guac’s Y Combinator company listing describes the startup as building an AI platform for grocery. It says the company began with forecasting and replenishment tools that help retailers order and produce the right amount of inventory.
F6S describes Guac as an AI-powered demand forecasting and replenishment platform for fresh grocery, providing SKU-level, store-level daily forecasts and related tools.
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4Business Model
Guac’s model is best characterized as B2B enterprise-software sales to grocery retailers, providing demand forecasting, inventory, ordering, and production-planning solutions. Public sources do not disclose specific subscription prices, contract terms, or other revenue details.