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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Lokad: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/lokad/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/lokad/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/lokad.md",
  "title": "Lokad: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Lokad is on the AI supply chain planning software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated May 12, 2025.",
  "period": "May 12, 2025",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "lokad",
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    "site": "https://www.lokad.com/",
    "summary": "\"Better supply chain decisions.\" Lokad sells probabilistic forecasts and automated purchasing, allocation, pricing and scheduling decisions, run by its own Supply Chain Scientists in the Envision programming language. Customers are retail networks, aerospace, automotive, fashion, oil and gas, and manufacturers.",
    "founded": 2008,
    "categories": [
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Better supply chain decisions.\" Lokad sells probabilistic forecasts and automated purchasing, allocation, pricing and scheduling decisions, run by its own Supply Chain Scientists in the Envision programming language. Customers are retail networks, aerospace, automotive, fashion, oil and gas, and manufacturers.",
    "source": {
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    },
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      "name": "Lokad",
      "site": "https://www.lokad.com/",
      "category": "Demand forecasting and inventory",
      "what": "\"Better supply chain decisions.\" Lokad sells probabilistic forecasts and automated purchasing, allocation, pricing and scheduling decisions, run by its own Supply Chain Scientists in the Envision programming language. Customers are retail networks, aerospace, automotive, fashion, oil and gas, and manufacturers.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "lokad.com",
        "url": "https://www.lokad.com/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Assistant",
          "AI demand forecasting",
          "Inventory optimization",
          "Replenishment",
          "Production scheduling"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 4,
      "scale": "No disclosed scale (No customer count disclosed; the vendor claims \"over $20 billion worth of merchandise optimized\" and names case-study customers; self-funded, no outside investors per its About page)",
      "founded": "2008",
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          "name": "lokad.com",
          "url": "https://www.lokad.com/about-us/"
        },
        {
          "name": "lokad.com",
          "url": "https://www.lokad.com/blog/tag/lokad-news/"
        },
        {
          "name": "lokad.com",
          "url": "https://www.lokad.com/blog/2025/5/12/digital-assistant-for-supply-chain-upgraded/"
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      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/lokad/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-05-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Lokad upgrades its supply chain digital assistant",
      "summary": "Lokad upgraded its public supply chain chatbot at lokad.com/chat. It can now write Envision code, cites its sources and gives better answers.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
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