Match the planning window
Build the forecast around when the team can still act.
Predictive Analytics
Graphite Note builds predictive models for business planning, forecasting and prioritisation. The aim is not a model score in isolation. It is a prediction at the level where a team can actually make a decision.
Common patterns
Estimate future demand or revenue with uncertainty at the store, product, region or business-unit level.
PropensityRank opportunities by likelihood or expected value so teams spend limited capacity where it matters.
ValueEstimate future value and retention risk for more disciplined acquisition and retention decisions.
Decision-ready forecasting
Graphite Note focuses on the operational unit, horizon and uncertainty that the business needs. A single top-line forecast may be accurate and still be useless if planners allocate people, inventory or budget at a much finer level.
Build the forecast around when the team can still act.
Store, brand, customer, region or another unit that maps to real execution.
Expose uncertainty where it changes planning or risk tolerance.
Direct answers
Predictive analytics estimates what is likely to happen. Causal analytics asks what would change if an intervention changed. Both can be useful in the same decision workflow.
Yes, when they are relevant and available. External signals can improve forecasts if they carry information about the future outcome and are available at prediction time.
That depends on the business decision. The prediction can feed planning, prioritisation, a causal analysis, optimisation or a machine-readable recommendation through the Decision API.
Start with the planning question, not the algorithm.