The dress sold out on Friday. The scarves never will.
How a shop owner with no data team stops guessing what to reorder and what to mark down.
Here is last month's sales and today's stock. What will I run out of before Saturday, and what has not sold in 60 days?
Codexworks out how fast each item is selling
Claudereads supplier emails for delays
Geminiquestions whether a sale or the season explains it
Inventory, week 40
- Wrap dress: reordered 2 weeks late last time, lost about 9 sales
- Scarves: marked down 25%, 14 sold in a week
- Supplier needs 10 days. Reorder at 6 left, not 2
It is Saturday, the busiest day of the week, and the dress in the window is gone in every size but one. Three customers have asked for it since lunch. In the back room there are four boxes of scarves that arrived in spring and have barely moved.
- Best sellers run out right when people want them
- Slow stock ties up money you need for the next season
- Every reorder is a gut call made at closing time
Try it yourself in Luminair
Six steps. No setup beyond the AI plan you already have.
- 1
Install Luminair and sign in
Download Luminair and open it. Go to Settings → Models → Add account and sign in with an AI plan you already pay for, like Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
- 2
Make a folder for this job
In the sidebar, choose New folder… and name it “Inventory”. Then choose New session in this folder. Everything for this job stays together.
- 3
Bring the information in
You need: till sales export, online orders and stock list. Connect WooCommerce, Airtable and Gmail in Settings → Connectors, or export the files and drag them into the chat.
- 4
Ask for the result
Paste this into the session, or say it in your own words:
Here is last month's sales and today's stock. What will I run out of before Saturday, and what has not sold in 60 days?
- 5
Get a second opinion
Pick a different model in the model picker and ask it to check the first answer:
Is anything on this list only selling fast because of last week's promotion?
- 6
Make it repeat
Open Flows → New and add the steps: Read this week's sales and stock → List reorders and markdowns with reasons → Draft the supplier email for my review. Choose when it runs, like every Monday at 09:00. Nothing is sent or changed until you approve it.
How it plays out
Give the shop one folder
Make a Project Folder called Inventory. Drop in this month's sales export from your till and your online store, plus your current stock list. If your store runs on WooCommerce, connect it and skip the export.
Ask in plain words
Ask what is selling faster than expected, what is piling up, and what is likely to run out before next weekend. You get a short written answer with the figures it used, not a dashboard to decode.
Make it a weekly habit
Turn that into a Flow that runs every Monday: read the new numbers, list reorders, list markdown candidates, draft the supplier email. Nothing is ordered or discounted until you say so.
You stay in charge
Luminair reads what you give it and drafts the plan. You know your supplier, your street and your customers, so you approve every order and every discount.
After a few Mondays, Journal holds a plain record of what you ordered, why, and how it turned out. Next season starts from that, not from memory.
Sign in with the AI plan you already have and start with this job.