Antevon vs NielsenIQ Byzzer: retail data or a two-week forecasting 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

Byzzer provides retail and consumer intelligence, rather than an evidenced end-to-end stock-planning service.¹²

Byzzer is a user-operated analytics and reporting platform with guided support.²⁰

NIQ currently offers Byzzer accounts, reports and paid data options.¹²

NIQ supplies Byzzer.¹⁴

NIQ’s website terms identify Nielsen Consumer LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates as NielsenIQ.¹⁵

The product is also presented as Byzzer by NIQ.¹³

Byzzer is NIQ’s retail-data product for emerging brands.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

Byzzer targets emerging and small CPG businesses without publishing a revenue threshold in the pages read.¹²

NIQ advertises beauty and other CPG vertical data within the Byzzer product offer.¹²

NIQ names Whole Foods, Amazon, Target, Sally Beauty, Pet Supplies Plus, online and independent retailers in the Byzzer offer.¹³

Byzzer’s retailer maps explicitly cover the continental United States; that does not establish the geography of every Byzzer dataset.¹⁶

Not confirmed. UK beauty sell-through coverage and UK customer eligibility were not established from the public sources read.

Byzzer is positioned for teams that need market intelligence without a large analytics team.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

The account user selects categories before running reports.²⁰

Users choose categories and configure alerts, while later category changes require NIQ approval and submission to customer service.²⁰

A scheduled report series must be recreated after its maximum 104-week schedule.²⁸

Byzzer advertises a free Power Up session to help users choose reports and navigate the platform.¹²

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.

Not confirmed. A maintained SKU-by-retailer operational demand forecast was not established.

Byzzer’s Regular Price Simulator estimates unit and sales-volume impacts for a given PPG.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A future operational forecast horizon was 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.

Byzzer’s Omnisales data combines retailer POS/ePOS and other sources to measure online and in-store sales.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Retailer EDI order, inventory or invoice exchange and 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

Byzzer’s Promo Event Simulator models promotion lift and can include profitability inputs.¹⁷

Byzzer’s New Product Launch Smart Action report compares new-item performance and gives distribution guidance.¹⁸

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. Automated replenishment recommendations or execution were not established.

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, sending or management were not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves or sends the brand’s POs was not established from the Byzzer sources read.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity constraints in operational buying plans were not established.

Not confirmed. Supplier lead-time planning was not established.

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. Cash-budget-constrained purchasing or stock optimisation was not established.

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry or shelf-life planning 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.

Not confirmed. A native Shopify sales, orders or stock connection was not established.

Not confirmed. A connection to the brand’s Amazon seller orders or stock was not established.

Not confirmed. A 3PL stock or fulfilment connector was not established.

Not confirmed. An ERP transaction or inventory connector was not established.

Byzzer supports downloading templated report data as CSV.²⁹

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. Operational forecast, cash and purchase approval responsibilities were not established for Byzzer.

Byzzer sends configured performance alerts to the user; a named provider who resolves operational stock exceptions was not established.²⁷

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

Not confirmed. A time to a reviewed, decision-ready SKU-by-retailer forecast was not established.

A Byzzer account must have at least one category set before reports can run, and category choices lock after 72 hours.²⁰

External consultants or service providers need NIQ review before they can access a client’s Byzzer subscription.²⁶

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.

Byzzer’s help centre lists platform live chat and email support, with customer service Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm EST.²¹

NIQ publicly identifies a London office at 110 Southwark Street; Byzzer-specific UK staffing was not established.³⁰

Not confirmed. A UK legal entity that contracts specifically for Byzzer was not established.

Byzzer publishes Monday-to-Friday service hours of 9am to 5pm EST, not a separately stated UK-local schedule.²¹

Not confirmed. A named UK Byzzer customer with verified UK beauty data usage was 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

General paid Byzzer pricing is tailored to the buyer; the public member-only anchors do not price a general UK beauty subscription.²²

The Startup CPG page provides conditional public price anchors, but not a complete comparable recurring cost.¹⁴

Walmart account-level data requires approval and a separately quoted incremental purchase.²⁵

Byzzer advertises tailored pricing with one-time report purchases and monthly subscriptions.²²

Data on Demand deducts one report credit per run, but not for failed reports or layout-only changes.²³

Price and Promotion Simulators do not use run credits.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A generally applicable paid minimum spend was not established.

Not confirmed. A setup or onboarding fee for a selected paid Byzzer package was not established.

NIQ offers three free reports with no commitment necessary; a time-limited paid-plan trial duration was not established.²⁴

Not confirmed. Byzzer paid minimum term, renewal and cancellation conditions 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

Byzzer advertises weekly alerts using weekly-updated data.¹²

Byzzer offers more than 40 CPG reports for brand, competitor and category analysis.¹²

Byzzer’s Stories tool creates presentations from selected templates, objectives and specifications.¹²

NIQ’s website terms contain a broad restriction on commercial citation that needs owner/legal review before publication.¹⁵