Guidance replaces spreadsheets and disconnected tools with a single platform — real-time inventory, MRP, lot traceability, COGS, and organic mass balance. Unified.
Founding Customer
“We source certified organic fruit internationally, process it through co-manufacturers, and sell through retail and ecommerce. We couldn’t find software that connected all of it — supplier traceability, co-packing costs, organic mass balance, and real COGS in one place. So we built it. Guidance is what we run Claros Farm on today.”
CEO, Claros Farm — built Guidance to run his own operation
The Platform
Every business decision — how much to buy, what to produce, where inventory sits, what a customer owes — is a math problem. Guidance solves them all in real time, connected, with full traceability from raw material to customer delivery.
No more reconciling spreadsheets. No more data living in five different systems. Guidance is the single source of mathematical truth for your operations.
Why Guidance
Enterprise-grade operational depth — designed for the scale and complexity of growing CPG brands.
Every number in Guidance is live — inventory, costs, margins, and requirements update the moment a transaction happens. No batch jobs, no stale data.
Full lot-level traceability from supplier to customer. Forward recall, backward traceback, and real-time lot location — all in one click.
One connected data model means your inventory, production, purchasing, and sales all speak the same language. No reconciliation required.
Organic certification support, audit-ready record-keeping, and regulatory document management built into every workflow.
Material Requirements Planning that actually works for SMBs — automated purchase suggestions, production scheduling, and demand-driven replenishment.
Dashboards and reports built on the same live data that runs your operations — not a separate BI tool pulling from yesterday's export.
How It Works
Guidance models your entire operation as a single mathematical system. Every module feeds every other module in real time.
Receive inventory by lot, capture supplier details, and automatically log traceability events. Every unit is tracked from the moment it arrives.
Run production batches with full bill-of-materials, yield tracking, and automatic lot genealogy. Inputs and outputs are linked mathematically.
Ship orders with lot-level assignment, generate customer-facing documents, and maintain a complete chain of custody from supplier to end customer.
Modules
Each module is purpose-built for CPG operations and deeply integrated with every other module in the platform — out of the box.
Real-time lot tracking, location management, and multi-warehouse visibility
Bill of materials, batch management, yield tracking, and production scheduling
Purchase orders, supplier management, receiving, and MRP-driven replenishment
Order management, lot allocation, shipment tracking, and customer documentation
Forward recall, backward traceback, lot genealogy, and real-time lot location
Material requirements planning, demand-driven replenishment, and automated purchase suggestions
Real-time cost of goods, margin analysis, and lot-level cost tracking
Organic certification, audit packets, document management, and regulatory reporting
Design Partner Program
Guidance is accepting a small cohort of design partners — CPG brands willing to run the platform in a live environment in exchange for reduced pricing and direct access to the product team.