Antevon vs Iris Finance: connected planning software, or a two-week 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

Iris is a consumer-brand finance platform with inventory and demand-planning scope.¹⁶

Iris also markets advisory work around transactions, earnings review and investor reporting.¹⁸

Iris supplies a platform joining sales, inventory and financial planning.¹⁶

Iris publicly markets its current finance and supply-chain planning offer.¹⁵

The Iris End User Agreement names Panorama Financial as the company.¹⁴

The vendor also uses Iris and Iris Financial on its legal pages.¹³

The product is branded Iris Finance.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 supply-chain page targets scaling brands at $1M to $50M+.¹⁶

The homepage describes a finance stack for brands from $5M to $500M+.¹⁵

Iris targets consumer brands, including beauty, supplements, apparel, food and beverage, and recreation.¹⁵

Iris markets a unified demand plan across DTC, wholesale and retail.¹⁶

Not confirmed. UK customer eligibility and UK-specific planning coverage were not established.

Iris addresses founders and finance, marketing and operations leaders; a minimum staffing requirement was not established.¹⁷

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

The published workflow has the brand connect its stack and Iris unify and structure the data.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Ongoing ownership of supplier settings, MOQ, lead times and planning parameters 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.

Iris says its demand forecasts are by SKU, channel and customer type, with models updating as sales data arrives.¹⁶

Not confirmed. The supported demand-forecast horizon and time buckets were not established.

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.

Iris claims cross-channel sell-through connected to the financial forecast, without naming UK retailer feeds or a separate sell-in model.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer EDI connections, message types and read/write support 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

Iris says demand models factor in promotions, seasonality and historical sales velocity.¹⁶

Iris tracks daily launch sell-through and margin against the launch plan and maps launches against cash.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

Not confirmed. Who creates and sends supplier purchase orders or follows suppliers was not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity and order-multiple handling were not established.

The beauty page says long lead times and payment terms are modelled per vendor.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.

Iris ties inventory decisions to margin, the P&L and a 13-week cash-flow forecast.¹⁶

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning were 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.

Iris describes a direct Shopify connection pulling sales, discounts, refunds, shipping costs and fees into SKU/channel financial reporting.²⁰

Iris describes automatic Amazon Seller Central data sync and daily SKU-level fee/profit analysis.²⁰

Iris claims native 3PL integration for sales velocity, inventory levels and financial data, without naming the 3PLs.¹⁶

Iris describes a NetSuite connection unifying financial, inventory and sales data for its reporting and planning layer.²⁰

Not confirmed. CSV imports for operational planning and retailer files were not established.

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.

Not confirmed. Who formally approves the forecast, cash commitment and purchases was not established.

Iris advertises automated variance alerts, but the human owner of exception resolution is not established.¹⁹

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

Iris advertises a unified data warehouse in ten minutes after connecting its supported stack.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Time to a reviewed, decision-ready demand forecast was not established.

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.

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK legal entity or UK contracting entity was not established.

Not confirmed. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response commitments were not established.

Not confirmed. Named UK customers and UK-specific retailer deployments were not established.

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

Iris asks buyers for their use case and offers a tailored quote.¹²

Not confirmed. A reliable minimum spend, seat commitment or contract minimum was not established.

Not confirmed. A usable free-trial duration, eligibility rule and refund policy were not established.

Not confirmed. Subscription billing, minimum term, renewal and customer cancellation rules were not established.

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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