Antevon vs Vividly: planning software, or a two-week 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

Vividly combines CPG trade management with demand, supply and materials planning.¹⁶

Vividly licenses a trade-management and optimization software platform.²²

Demand planning is advertised as connected to trade management, with a Web Integrated partner component.¹⁶

Vividly offers a structured, ongoing RGM data-readiness consulting program.²³

Trade Shield offers a dedicated team for deduction backup, reconciliation and disputes.²⁴

Vividly currently advertises its trade platform and a demand planning suite.¹⁵

The privacy policy identifies the operator as Vividly, Inc.; an ultimate parent was not established.¹⁴

Vividly was formerly called Cresicor.¹³

The product is called Vividly.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

Vividly markets to emerging, scaling and enterprise CPG brands, with its emerging segment labelled up to $50M.¹²

Vividly describes typical customer volumes of 500–25,000 promotions and 500–100,000 deductions per year.¹⁷

The demand-planning page describes mid-market CPG teams typically at $100M to $1B revenue.¹⁶

Vividly explicitly markets a health-and-beauty use case within its CPG offer.¹²

Vividly targets promotional planning across retail, club and foodservice channels.¹⁶

Vividly describes US-based CPG experts; acceptance and coverage for UK customers were not established.¹⁸

Vividly serves cross-functional commercial and planning teams and documents a recurring forecast-admin role.¹⁹

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

For file uploads, the brand prepares data, reviews column mappings and corrects errors; integrations can remove some manual uploads.²⁹

The forecasting guide asks the customer to assign an admin to regenerate forecasts at regular intervals.¹⁹

Implementation services are available and scoped as purchased in the customer Order.²²

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.

Forecasts can be viewed by product and customer, grouped by week or month, in units or cases.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A fixed maximum or rolling 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.

Vividly distinguishes ERP shipment or invoice revenue from retail consumer purchases and supports POS uploads for sell-through analysis.²¹

Not confirmed. Retailer EDI transaction connectivity 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

Vividly provides trade-calendar planning and promotion scenarios within a campaign budget and spend-rate constraints.²⁰

The forecasting guide describes new-item pipefill and manual velocity and store-count assumptions for early distribution.¹⁹

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

The demand-planning suite calculates inventory requirements and production schedules against demand.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, sending and supplier execution were not established.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for creating, approving and placing supplier POs was not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity handling was not established.

Not confirmed. Configurable supplier and transport lead-time handling 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.

Promotion optimization accepts trade-budget constraints; cash-constrained inventory purchasing was not established.²⁰

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 constraints 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.

Not confirmed. A Shopify orders, sales or inventory connector was not established.

Not confirmed. An Amazon sales, orders or stock connector was not established.

Vividly lists Amazon Seller Central transaction reports among supported deduction-scanning templates.³⁰

Not confirmed. A named 3PL stock or order connection was not established.

Vividly supports ERP transaction integrations and documents manual uploads when an API connection is not set up.³¹

The POS upload guide accepts a single-tab Excel or CSV file.²¹

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 promotion optimizer recommends a campaign, but the customer makes the final decision before it goes live.²⁰

The forecasting guide tells users to investigate missing retailer data, shifted order timing and unusual forecast movements.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

Vividly advertises value in as little as two weeks for emerging brands, but does not establish a time to a first reviewed forecast.²⁸

The implementation page says customers can be processing payments in under 90 days.²⁶

Onboarding calls for completed data requests and access to one or two customer stakeholders, with a dedicated account manager.²⁶

The forecasting module needs sales, shipment, store-count or velocity and promotion-calendar data; deductions are optional for basic forecasting.¹⁹

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.

The SLA includes support during Vividly normal business hours, and the implementation page advertises ongoing training and reviews.²⁵

Vividly advertises unlimited training, weekly optimization sessions and quarterly business reviews.²⁶

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity was not established.

One public guide lists live support from 9am to 8pm EST; UK-local hours and days of service remain unverified.³²

Not confirmed. Named UK customer deployments and UK-retailer data coverage 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

Vividly uses custom packages and Order-specific fees, so a scoped price requires a quote.²²

Vividly advertises custom packages, with fees specified in the customer Order rather than a public rate card.²⁷

Vividly’s terms exclude applicable taxes from fees and add taxes where Vividly is legally required to collect them.²²

Not confirmed. A minimum subscription fee or minimum spend was not established.

A vendor-hosted page says Vividly-built custom integrations carry a setup fee, without publishing an amount.¹⁸

Not confirmed. A current free trial and its terms were not established.

The contract term is specified in the customer Order Form; no standard duration was established.²²

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

Vividly advertises automated payment-to-invoice matching, discrepancy flags and ERP cash-application posting.³⁴

Trade Shield includes backup retrieval, deduction reconciliation and dispute collections.²⁴

Vividly offers RGM consulting across data readiness, post-event analysis, forward planning and price-pack architecture.²³