Antevon vs Eightx: finance leadership or a retailer forecast audit

Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project.³

The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger.⁵

Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit.³

Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website.²

Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.

The public trading name is Antevon.¹

Eightx offers fractional CFO services with cross-functional financial and operational planning.¹²

A private Eightx client platform accompanies a separate professional-services engagement.²¹

Eightx also offers a separate free downloadable inventory-analysis skill for use with a Claude account.¹³

Eightx separately presents a Growth Economics Audit and a 90-Day Implementation Sprint.¹²

Eightx provides a fractional CFO embedded in the leadership team.¹²

Eightx currently presents an available fractional CFO offer with audit, implementation and ongoing stages.¹²

Not confirmed. Eightx names Matt Putra as founder; the legal owning entity and share ownership were not established.¹⁴

EightX is an alternative capitalization used on Eightx’s own site.¹³

The current public brand name is Eightx.¹²

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.⁴

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so.³

The stated service audience is in the UK and EU.⁴

The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast.⁵

The core service page targets ecommerce and CPG brands doing $5M–$150M in annual revenue.¹²

The core fractional CFO service page focuses on ecommerce and CPG.¹²

Eightx describes experience in DTC, marketplaces and wholesale.¹²

Eightx says it is based in Canada.¹⁵

Eightx explicitly markets fractional CFO services to UK ecommerce and DTC brands.¹⁶

Eightx targets brands whose bookkeeping and accounting need a strategic layer across marketing, supply chain and leadership.¹²

The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions.⁵

Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.

On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger.⁵

Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.

The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login.⁵

Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge.⁵

The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep.⁵

Platform clients are responsible for data accuracy and the right to provide their data.²¹

Not confirmed. The exact division of export extraction, field mapping and data cleanup between Eightx and the brand was not established.

The pricing guide includes financial-model reforecasting as conditions change.²³

Not confirmed. Ongoing ownership of per-SKU lead times, MOQs, safety stock and expiry parameters was not established.

The named implementation sprint includes weekly CFO sessions, dashboards and cash-flow models.¹²

Not confirmed. Whether the quoted ongoing retainer includes all audit, onboarding and implementation fees was not established.

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.

Eightx’s CPG consulting article describes retailer/SKU sell-through models checked against shipments.¹⁷

Eightx’s ecommerce guide describes three-year monthly income-statement, cash-flow and balance-sheet models.¹⁸

The CPG consulting article describes a rolling 13-week model using store-level sales, shipments and open POs.¹⁷

Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.⁷

Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

The CPG article distinguishes retailer/SKU sell-through from shipment data.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Named retailer/EDI connectors, retailer sell-through access and EDI write-back were not established.

The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range.³

The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.⁶

Not in the published offer. The standard method and data requirements for a product with no sales history are not specified in the public offer.

Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history.³

Eightx’s CPG article describes promotion checks for production capacity, supplier commitments and comparable-campaign demand.¹⁷

Eightx’s CPG article describes launch models based on comparable products, seasonality and market penetration.¹⁷

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.³

Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step.⁴

Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.

The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast.⁷

Eightx says its CFO consulting translates sales data into reorder signals.¹⁹

Eightx’s privacy policy says its client platform derives inventory and purchase plans.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Automatic PO creation, supplier transmission and ERP write-back were not established.

Not confirmed. Who actually raises POs, sends them to suppliers and follows them up was not established.

The CPG consulting article describes negotiating minimum order quantities and setting SKU inventory rules.¹⁷

The CPG consulting article describes leaner stock and longer lead-time planning for slower-moving products.¹⁷

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.⁵

Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.

Not confirmed. An automated replenishment optimizer enforcing a configured cash budget was not established.

The implementation sprint includes cash-flow forecasting and a 13-week cash model.¹²

Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.

Eightx publishes beauty inventory guidance that caps SKU days on hand using shelf life and sales velocity.²⁰

Not confirmed. A delivered Eightx batch/lot traceability or FEFO execution system was not established.

Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Eightx’s platform terms explicitly name Shopify connections using OAuth or API credentials.²¹

Not confirmed. An enabled Amazon client-platform connector was not established; the privacy policy lists Amazon among possible future sources.¹⁵

Not confirmed. The CPG article says it can work with existing 3PL tools, but names no specific connector or data method.¹⁷

Eightx publishes a service-project example of implementing NetSuite for multi-location inventory management.¹²

Not confirmed. A documented native ERP connector for the Eightx client platform was not established.

Not confirmed. A CSV import workflow for the paid Eightx client platform was not established.

The separate free inventory skill accepts a manually exported Shopify CSV report.¹³

Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.

Platform terms require clients to review and validate outputs; final forecast approval and cash authority are not specified.²¹

Not confirmed. Final forecast sign-off, cash approval and supplier commitments under a professional-services engagement were not established.

Eightx describes reviewing actuals against forecast and discussing red scorecard items with the client.¹⁸

The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment.³

The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14.³

The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar.³

The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions.⁵

The homepage says current issues can be addressed in four weeks and a full financial plan delivered in eight weeks.²²

The Growth Economics Audit is advertised as a 14-day process that delivers a prioritized roadmap.¹²

Eightx’s onboarding description requires financial, commerce, advertising and inventory data plus interviews with operating leads.¹⁸

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.⁵

The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs.⁵

Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA.²

Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.

Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379.²

Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.

Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.

Eightx says one senior partner owns each account, backed by a connected finance team.²²

The pricing guide says ad-hoc access is included in Eightx’s retainer without hourly billing.²³

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office or UK business address was not verified.

Not confirmed. A UK registered contracting entity was not verified.

Not confirmed. Contracted UK support hours, UK response-time guarantees and an out-of-hours rota were not established.

Eightx reports a UK fractional CFO engagement with The Turmeric Co. spanning 2021–2025.²⁴

Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call.⁸

Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour.¹⁰

The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed.⁸

Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery.⁸

Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge.¹⁰

The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count.¹⁰

Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.

Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.

There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data.⁵

Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.

The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms.²

The monthly desk is optional after the audit.¹⁰

The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription.¹⁰

The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice.⁸

Eightx publishes a typical retainer range and a starting audit price, rather than a fixed scoped price list.¹²

Eightx says its standard charging model is a flat-rate retainer.²³

Not confirmed. A firm-wide minimum retainer, minimum spend or minimum contracted hours was not established.

Not confirmed. A separate mandatory setup or onboarding fee was not established.

Not confirmed. A trial of the paid fractional CFO service was not established.

The homepage says clients can cancel without a 30-day notice.²²

The core service page describes the ongoing partnership as month to month with no long-term contracts.¹²

The pricing guide says Eightx typically begins with a 90-day sprint commitment before moving month to month.²³

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

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