Antevon vs Lokad: a managed platform or a fixed-fee 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

Lokad covers forecasting and replenishment within broader supply-chain decision optimisation.¹⁵

The current implementation offer combines the platform with ongoing Supply Chain Scientist services.¹⁴

A separate service page also describes self-service accounts operated by the client.²¹

Lokad currently presents an active software-and-expert supply-chain offer.¹⁴

Lokad describes itself as dominantly founder owned.¹³

Not confirmed. No current alternative trading or product-family name was established.

The current brand name is Lokad.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

Lokad discusses small initiatives below EUR or USD 100 million turnover, but does not establish a minimum eligible brand revenue here.¹³

Lokad lists retail networks, aerospace, automotive, fashion, oil and gas, and manufacturing.¹⁶

Lokad addresses connected store, distribution-centre and ecommerce flows.¹⁷

Not confirmed. English-language support is documented, but explicit current UK customer eligibility and geographic contracting coverage were not established.

The managed implementation uses client leadership, an operational coordinator and an IT or data contact, while Lokad supplies the modelling specialists.¹⁴

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

Client IT or a data contact runs the source feed while Lokad’s scientists interpret and prepare the data.²³

The client controls strategic parameters such as budget and stockout cost.¹⁵

Lokad’s scientists remain involved after go-live to tune models and keep the solution aligned with the business.¹⁴

Lokad’s subscription scope includes implementation expertise, but onboarding is billed.¹⁴

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.

Lokad describes probabilistic demand forecasts at SKU-location level.¹⁷

Lokad says retail clients routinely use horizons of 200 days or more, with no technical maximum.¹⁸

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.

Not confirmed. Separate brand-to-retailer sell-in and retailer-to-consumer sell-through forecasting was not established for a named UK retail feed.

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer EDI connections, sell-through coverage and retailer-order 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

Lokad offers promotion-response modelling that considers cross-product effects and financial impact.¹⁹

Lokad says its scientists infer demand for new SKUs from comparable items and catalogue attributes.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

Lokad offers joint replenishment, allocation and transfer optimisation.¹⁷

Lokad offers automated purchase-order generation with results reintegrated into the client’s ERP.¹⁵

Lokad can generate order outputs, but client IT is responsible for importing them into business systems.²⁰

Lokad says its optimisation respects minimum order quantities.¹⁷

Lokad offers modelling of supplier lead-time variation and reliability.¹⁵

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.

Lokad says its retail optimisation can include budget limits.¹⁷

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

Lokad can receive stock data with expiration dates; full batch or expiry-management workflows were not established.²⁰

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.

Not confirmed. A current native Shopify connector, its data objects, write-back and plan limits were not established.

Not confirmed. A current Amazon connector, marketplace scope, data objects, write-back and plan limits were not established.

Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector, stock objects, transfer write-back and applicable plan limits were not established.

Lokad operates beside the ERP through client-built data extracts and optional result imports.²⁴

Lokad supports reading and writing CSV, TSV and tabular Excel files.²⁰

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.

The client retains strategic judgment and chooses when to adopt the automated decisions.¹⁴

Client practitioners challenge outputs and provide context; Lokad’s scientist fixes model edge cases.²³

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

Lokad describes approximately six months from implementation kickoff to full go-live, not a guaranteed first-forecast deadline.¹⁴

Setup depends on extracts, a recurring data feed, client contacts, validation and a dual run before adoption.¹⁴

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.

Dedicated scientists remain involved in production, with email, tasks and video calls as the main support channels.²²

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established; the public contact page lists Paris.

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

Support outside business hours and on holidays is contract-specific, with French holidays observed by default.²²

Not confirmed. A named UK customer relationship was not verified in the public sources read.

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

A buyer-specific Lokad subscription requires a negotiated quote, despite public indicative starting-price statements.²¹

Lokad usually charges a flat monthly fee for a defined decision scope, covering platform resources and specialist support.¹³

Not confirmed. A universal current minimum fee for every Lokad package was not established.

Lokad says typical implementation fees equal six months of production and are billed monthly at the production rate.¹³

The contractual FAQ says a free trial account can be requested by email and may be declined.¹³

The separate Premier service page states a six-month commitment.²¹

The April 2025 contractual FAQ describes a usual one-month minimum, termination with the current month due, and default tacit renewal.¹³

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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