Guesswork
Most small businesses plan from memory and last year's notebook. That means wasted stock on slow days, long lines on busy ones, and cash crunches nobody saw coming.
AI forecasting for small businesses
Know Friday's rush before Friday.
Cadium turns the sales numbers you already have into simple forecasts: which dishes will sell most, when your shop will be busiest, and how much cash you'll have next month.
Uses your sales, menu items, hourly traffic, costs and staffing. No data team needed.
- Barbershops
- Taquerias
- Bakeries
- Cafés
- Hair salons
- Food trucks
- Pizzerias
- Boutiques
- Nail studios
- Delis
- Juice bars
- Family restaurants
- Partner businesses forecasting with Cadium
- 8
- Local businesses we've pitched and listened to
- 100+
- People on the Cadium team
- 8
Cadium is an AI forecasting tool built for small businesses. That means forecasts in plain English, no spreadsheets to build, and a team that picks up the phone.
How it works
Three steps, and the first one is the only one that takes any effort.
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Enter your numbers
Add sales by day, item and hour, plus your costs, staffing and upcoming events. Type them in or upload spreadsheets and register reports.
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Cadium finds the patterns
Our models combine your sales, items, hours and costs with day of week, season, weather and local events, so the patterns you feel in your gut become numbers you can plan with.
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Get a forecast you can act on
See what to prep, when to staff up and what's coming for your cash, written the way you'd say it to a coworker.
Planning, before and after Cadium
Cadium
Cadium learns from your own sales and turns them into a forecast for the days and weeks ahead. You know what to prep, who to schedule and when to save, before the week starts.
Built for the businesses on your street
Cadium partners with restaurants, barbershops and other local shops. Here's what a forecast looks like for each.
Restaurants and cafés
Know which dishes will sell before you prep.
Cadium forecasts each menu item day by day, so you order the right amount, prep the right amount and stop throwing food away on slow nights.
- Item-level forecasts for every day of the week
- Heads-ups for holidays, paydays and local events
Barbershops and salons
See your busiest hours before they hit.
Cadium shows when walk-ins and bookings will peak, hour by hour, so you can schedule the right number of chairs and keep the wait short.
- Hour-by-hour traffic forecasts
- Staffing suggestions you can share with your team
Every small business
Plan cash flow for the slow months.
Cadium projects your revenue weeks and months out, so a slow season is something you plan for, not something that surprises you.
- Weekly and monthly revenue forecasts
- Simple alerts when a dip is coming
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“I used to guess how much to order for the weekend. Now I check Cadium on Monday and I already know.”
We started by listening.
Before we wrote a line of code, our team pitched more than 100 local businesses. Barbers, restaurant owners and shopkeepers told us the same thing: they knew their busy days by feel, but feel doesn't help you order stock or plan payroll.
Cadium is the tool we built for them. Today a team of 8 builds and supports it alongside 8 partner businesses who use it every week and tell us what to fix next.
- RestaurantsMenu and prep forecasts
- BarbershopsBusy-hour forecasts
- CafésDaily demand and stock
- Local shopsCash flow outlook
Get started yourself, or book a demo with our team.
Book a demo: see your forecast with us.
We'll walk through your numbers on a 15-minute call and show you your first forecast. Most demos happen within a few days.
Best for owners who want a hand getting set up.
Get started on your own.
Create an account, enter your numbers and get your first forecast.
More than one location?
Talk to us about forecasts across several shops or restaurants.
Questions owners ask us
What numbers do I need?
Daily or weekly sales are enough to start. From there you can add sales by item and by hour, costs like rent and payroll, staff schedules, and the holidays and events that affect your business. Each layer makes the forecast sharper and unlocks more detail, like item-level prep and hour-by-hour staffing.
Do I need to be good with technology?
No. If you can fill in a spreadsheet or type numbers into a form, you can use Cadium. Forecasts come back in plain sentences, not charts you have to decode.
How accurate are the forecasts?
Every forecast comes with a likely range, so you can see how sure Cadium is. Accuracy improves as Cadium learns more of your history, and we review results with partners regularly.
What happens to my data?
Your numbers are used to build your forecasts. We don't sell your data. Ask us anything on a demo call.
What does it cost?
Pricing depends on the size of your business. Book a demo or contact sales and we'll walk you through the options.
Want to see next week before it happens?
A demo takes 15 minutes. Bring your numbers.