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From weekly reports to intelligent buying decisions.

A bespoke AI-powered stock intelligence system for Overland Footwear Group, powered by SovereignSync™.

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Brands in scope

3

Stores across the group

~40

Decision cadence

Weekly

Human approval

Always

Merchant · Mi Piaci · Good Soul — one weekly recommendation workflow

01 · The opportunity

The best buying decisions are already inside your business.

Every week, your buying team works through stock and sales information across three brands and around forty stores to decide what to repeat, how deep to go, and where capital should sit. That judgement already exists inside the team. The opportunity is to make it available every week, consistently, without working through thousands of data points by hand.

  • 01What should we repeat?
  • 02How many pairs should we order, and in what sizes?
  • 03Where is stock running too low to hold the run rate?
  • 04What is already on order or in the distribution centre?
  • 05Where should stock capital be allocated next?
  • 06What is a genuine opportunity versus a seasonal distortion?
Today

  1. 01

    Data

    Reports, exports, spreadsheets

  2. 02

    Analysis

    Manual interpretation each week

  3. 03

    Buyer judgement

    Experience applied line by line

  4. 04

    Action

    Orders raised

With SovereignSync™

  1. 01

    Data

    Same source systems

  2. 02

    SovereignSync™

    Buying logic applied at scale

  3. 03

    Recommendation

    Ranked, explained, evidenced

  4. 04

    Buyer approval

    The buyer decides

AI aids the buyer. It does not replace the buyer.

02 · What we understand

We don't want to automate the report. We want to automate the thinking behind it.

01

Sell-through

Identify styles moving quickly enough to require replenishment.

02

Stock position

Consider stock currently held in stores and in distribution centres.

03

Inbound stock

Account for stock already on order before recommending additional purchases.

04

Contribution

Compare stock investment against gross profit contribution to identify where capital is working hardest.

05

Seasonality

Understand that a weak current performer may be an intentional seasonal build — and a strong performer may not deserve another order if the season is changing.

Design principle

The system needs to reason like the buying team — not simply calculate like a spreadsheet.

03 · The proposed solution

Meet the SovereignSync™ Stock Intelligence Agent.

A weekly AI decision-support layer that ingests existing stock and sales information, applies the buying team's decision logic, analyses historical performance and produces a visual list of recommended actions for review.

Merchant
Mi Piaci
Good Soul
Initial coverage

  1. 01

    OnTempo · existing data

    Stock, sales, product, inbound

  2. 02

    SovereignSync™

    Governed ingestion and orchestration

  3. 03

    Classify + analyse

    Buying rules applied

  4. 04

    Recommendation engine

    Action, quantity, rationale

  5. 05

    Buyer review

    Approve, edit or dismiss

  6. 06

    Action

    Orders raised with an audit trail

Important

Every recommendation remains subject to human approval. The agent proposes; the buying team decides.

04 · What the buyer sees

Less spreadsheet archaeology. More decisions.

Built for a visual read, not a spreadsheet read. A weekly queue of recommendations, each with the product image and the evidence behind it. Open “Why?” on any card to see the reasoning the system applied.

Weekly replenishment queue

Week 36 · FY263 of 47 shown
Merchant Halston Ankle Boot — Tan
REPEATMerchant

Halston Ankle Boot — Tan

Recommend ordering 126 pairs

Sell-through

24.1% / wk

Stock remaining

188 pairs

Inbound

60 pairs

12-week trend

▲ 12 wks rising

Gross contribution

Top decile

Seasonal context

Season building

Confidence · High

Reasoning

Weekly sell-through is materially above the agreed threshold and has risen across the past twelve weeks. Store stock is reducing faster than the inbound order covers, and projected demand exceeds committed inventory before the next receipt window. Gross contribution sits in the top decile of the category, and seasonal conditions support continued demand.

Mi Piaci Ravello Block Heel — Black
REPEATMi Piaci

Ravello Block Heel — Black

Recommend ordering 84 pairs

Sell-through

18.6% / wk

Stock remaining

142 pairs

Inbound

24 pairs

12-week trend

▲ steady

Gross contribution

Above category average

Seasonal context

Core, season-neutral

Confidence · Medium-high

Reasoning

Weekly sell-through is materially above the agreed threshold, current store stock is reducing rapidly, and inbound inventory does not adequately cover projected demand. Seasonal conditions also support continued demand.

Good Soul Lowline Leather Sneaker — Bone
MONITORGood Soul

Lowline Leather Sneaker — Bone

Recommend ordering No order this week

Sell-through

9.4% / wk

Stock remaining

410 pairs

Inbound

240 pairs

12-week trend

▬ flattening

Gross contribution

Mid range

Seasonal context

Intentional seasonal build

Confidence · Medium

Reasoning

Sell-through sits below the replenishment gate and the inbound order already covers projected demand through the next receipt cycle. The current position appears to be an intentional seasonal build rather than under-performance, so the recommendation is to hold and review once the season lands.

Interface concept for illustration. Products, quantities and metrics shown are indicative only and do not represent actual Overland Footwear Group data.

05 · The difference

This isn't another dashboard.

Traditional reporting

  • Shows what happened
  • Requires manual interpretation
  • Spreadsheet-heavy
  • Buyer must search for anomalies
  • Limited reasoning
  • Human review from scratch

SovereignSync™

  • Explains what needs attention
  • Applies defined buying logic
  • Visual recommendations
  • Highlights exceptions
  • Shows reasoning
  • Buyer remains in control

Reporting tells you what happened. SovereignSync™ helps determine what to do next.

06 · Designed around your business

Built around the way your team actually buys.

Input 01

Sell-through gate

Input 02

Current store stock

Input 03

Distribution centre stock

Input 04

Inbound / repeat stock

Input 05

Historical sales

Input 06

Gross profit contribution

Input 07

Stock value

Input 08

Seasonal context

Output

Recommendation

Note

The first version will be a first draft: rules and thresholds will be set with the buying team, then refined through real-world use week by week. The system is designed to learn your organisation's decision framework, not impose a generic retail algorithm.

07 · Phase 1

Start with one high-value decision.

Phase 1 — Weekly Replenishment Intelligence. A defined scope, deployed across the agreed brands and refined with the buying team.

In scope

  • Connect and structure required data
  • Establish data mappings
  • Build the stock intelligence layer
  • Implement buying rules
  • Build recommendation engine
  • Integrate product imagery
  • Create visual recommendation interface
  • Implement reasoning / explanation layer
  • Weekly automated processing
  • Buyer approval workflow
  • Audit trail
  • Initial deployment across agreed brands
  • Testing with the buying team
  • Iterative refinement

Open data requirements

Standard discovery and integration items for a bespoke system. These will be confirmed with your team during implementation:

  • Size-level stock availability
  • Supplier lead times
  • Minimum order quantities
  • Receipt quantities
  • Open-to-buy constraints
  • Historical data depth
  • Final approval workflow
08 · Why SovereignSync™

You're not commissioning a one-off AI script.

SovereignSync™ is an infrastructure platform built around controlled AI interaction, policy enforcement, auditability and data protection. The stock intelligence application sits on top of that foundation.

Layer 01

SovereignSync™ core

PolicySecurityData controlAuditabilityAI orchestration

Layer 02

Client-specific intelligence

StockSalesBuying rulesSeasonalityRecommendations

Layer 03

Business outcome

Faster decisionsLess manual analysisBetter stock allocationMore confident buying
09 · The investment

An enterprise-grade capability, without an enterprise-sized project.

Market comparison

Comparable NZ custom AI implementations

NZ$25,000 — NZ$90,000+

Indicative market range

Comparable NZ market references place focused AI implementation projects broadly within this range, with larger bespoke AI agent programmes extending substantially higher. Indicative context only — not competitor quotations.

Standard project value

NZ$0 + GST

Standard commercial project value

  • Discovery
  • Architecture
  • Data integration
  • AI / recommendation engine
  • Interface
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • Initial refinement
Founding client investment

NZ$0 + GST

20% Founding Client Partnership Discount

Saving NZ$9,600

Your investment helps establish the first commercial deployment of this capability while giving your team direct influence over its evolution.

Founding-client pricing available for acceptance by Friday 4 September 2026

Founding-client pricing is a strategic partnership position, not a negotiated reduction. It recognises Overland Footwear Group's willingness to partner early and help shape a capability that will continue to develop.

10 · Ongoing platform

Then the system keeps working.

A single monthly platform position covering the running, monitoring and continued refinement of the capability.

Ongoing platform

NZ$0

+ GST / month

Billed monthly, reviewed with your team as the capability develops.

Included

  • SovereignSync™ platform access
  • Hosting / infrastructure management
  • Monitoring
  • System maintenance
  • AI workflow maintenance
  • Security updates
  • Bug fixes
  • Reasoning / rule refinement
  • Product support
  • Ongoing optimisation

Transparent exclusions

Third-party AI / API usage and unusual data or infrastructure costs are excluded and charged transparently at cost where applicable.

11 · The business case

The real ROI isn't the software. It's the decisions.

Your own commercial logic applies here: because many store costs stay relatively fixed, selling to a small number of additional customers can move the bottom line of a store disproportionately — and the group is working to get more from fewer customers through the door. The same principle applies to stock. If the system prevents even a small number of missed replenishment opportunities, reduces unnecessary purchases, or improves where inventory capital is deployed, the value can materially exceed the cost of the system.

Your assumptions
NZ$
%
%

Applied to annual sales, not to margin.

hrs
NZ$
Illustrative annual impact

$393,120

Combined gross-profit and analysis-time effect across the group, on your inputs.

Annual sales base
$62,400,000
Sales uplift modelled
$624,000
Gross profit effect
$361,920
Analysis time released
$31,200
Uplift per store
$15,600
Year one system cost
$68,400
Illustrative year-one difference
$324,720

Illustrative scenario — not a guaranteed outcome

Figures are generated entirely from the inputs above. They are a modelling aid for discussion, not a forecast, projection or commitment of any kind.

12 · Why us

Built on years of work — not a weekend prototype.

SovereignSync™ represents substantial founder investment, engineering effort, product development and intellectual property accumulated before this engagement. This engagement is not paying us to invent the technology; it applies that technology to a high-value business problem.

  1. 01

    Idea

    Sovereign control of AI and data as a first principle.

  2. 02

    Customer discovery

    Sustained conversations with operators, not assumptions.

  3. 03

    Architecture

    Designed for policy, isolation and auditability from the start.

  4. 04

    Engineering

    Platform build, not a script.

  5. 05

    Enforcement engine

    Controlled AI interaction with policy applied at runtime.

  6. 06

    Testing

    Hardening across real workloads.

  7. 07

    Auditability

    Every decision traceable and reviewable.

  8. 08

    Commercial application

    The Stock Intelligence Agent for the buying team.

The Stock Intelligence Agent is a new application of an existing technology foundation — not a standalone script being created for one client.

13 · Founding client partnership

Be the first — without being the experiment.

As SovereignSync™'s first commercial client, Overland Footwear Group receives preferential founding-client pricing and direct influence over the development of this capability.

01

Founding pricing

20% reduction from standard project value.

02

Direct product influence

The buying team's real-world requirements help shape the capability.

03

Early access

Priority access to future functionality developed around the stock intelligence platform.

This is a commercial deployment with a defined scope, not a speculative technology experiment.

14 · Roadmap

Start with replenishment. Build toward intelligence.

Phase 1

In scope now

Weekly Replenishment Intelligence

Included in this proposal

Phase 2

Future

Depth and constraints

Size-level recommendationsSupplier lead timesMOQ optimisationOpen-to-buy awareness

Phase 3

Future

Range and capital

Range and category intelligenceSeasonal forecastingCapital allocation recommendations

Phase 4

Future

AI Buying Copilot

Natural language questionsScenario modelling“What happens if we order another 500 pairs?”

Phase 5

Future

Autonomous decision support

Within defined approval and governance boundaries

Scope clarity

Phases 2 to 5 are not included in the NZ$38,400 Phase 1 project and would be scoped and agreed separately.

15 · Next steps

Let's build the first version around the people who actually use it.

01

Confirm

Confirm scope, data availability and commercial agreement.

02

Discover

Working session with you and the buying team to validate decision rules, thresholds and data requirements.

03

Build

Develop, test and deploy the first weekly recommendation workflow.

Let's get started →Book the working session

Turn the knowledge already inside your business into a system that works every week.

SovereignSync™

The sovereign AI and data control layer.

Proposed founding client partnership

Overland Footwear Group

Prepared for
Shane Anselmi · Overland Footwear Group
Prepared by
Lawrence Mauga · SovereignSync™
Email
lawrence@sovereignsync.dev
Phone
+61 435 195 627
Date
Friday 4 September 2026

All figures exclude GST. Recommendations produced by the system are decision support only and remain subject to human approval. Nothing in this proposal constitutes a guarantee of financial outcome, forecast accuracy or regulatory compliance.