Timestral-28M NZ Business Story Studio — Why Zero-Shot Forecasting Changes Everything

1. THE EVERYDAY PAIN

Spreadsheets Are Blind to Context

Most NZ businesses order stock using last month's average or gut feel. When a sunny weekend, payday, and a 20% promo collide, you either sell out early or over-order and waste cash.

2. THE OLD BARRIER

Traditional AI Required a Data Scientist

Until now, teaching AI how price drops + ad spend + weather + holidays interact required months of custom feature engineering and training expensive models from scratch.

3. THE TIMESTRAL-28M BREAKTHROUGH

Zero Training. Instant "What-If" Simulation.

Mistral's Timestral-28M already understands how business factors interact. Feed it your past sales + next week's plan, and in 0.1 seconds on a normal laptop it predicts expected sales, worst-case rush, and profit.

CHOOSE A REAL-WORLD NZ BUSINESS STORY TO TEST (SWIPE OR TAP):

THE OWNER'S QUESTION

WHY OLD SPREADSHEETS FAIL

WHAT TIMESTRAL-28M SEES

🎛️ Adjust "What-If" Sliders

Test Your Next 14 Days ("What-If")

Drag Sliders Live

Or Try a Preset Scenario:

1. Price Discount or Hike 20% off ($199.20)

+20% Price HikeStandard Price40% Off Sale

Sale Starts On Day 4

Sale Length 4 days

2. Marketing & Weather Push 2.0x

Quiet / Wet (0.5x)Normal (1.0x)Big Blitz / Sunny (3.5x)

3. Long Weekend / Payday Surge 0 days

Your Stockroom Settings

Safety Buffer

Current Stock on Hand 2,450 units

Safety Buffer Confidence 90% Safe (9-in-10 Rush)

50% (Risky)80%90% Safe99% Bulletproof

🔬 For Engineers: Under-the-Hood Tensor Inputs

Target (1, T): Daily Sales (3 missing POS days handled natively)
Past Covariates (1, T): Storefront / Foot Traffic
Known-Future (4, T+14): Effective Price, Promo Binary Flag, Ad/Weather Index, Holiday Flag
Categorical (1, T+14): Day-of-Week (Target-Encoded)

📋 Plain-Language Decision Impact: What Your Choices Actually Do

Translates AI probabilities into everyday NZD margin, stockroom, and bank-account impact

🏷️ 1. Pricing & Margin Impact

📣 2. Marketing & Weather Impact

📦 3. Stockroom & Shelf Impact

Expected 14-Day Sales

-- vs. doing nothing

Take-Home Net Profit (NZD)

-- vs. doing nothing

Chance of Running Out Early

--%

-- vs. doing nothing

Extra Stock to Order Now

Covers busy rush safely

1. Your Next 14 Days: "Do Nothing" vs. Your "What-If" Plan

Shaded purple band shows the Realistic Busy-Rush Range (10% to 90% confidence) so you never get caught off guard.

Past 6 Weeks Sales If You Do Nothing Your What-If Plan Busy-Rush Range (P10–P90)

2. Why Trust It? We Hid the Last 14 Days (Which Had a Real Promo) & Tested 3 Methods

Look at the green shaded promo days: the Spreadsheet Method (grey) and Blind AI (orange) completely missed the surge. Timestral-28M (purple) nailed it with zero training.

What Actually Sold Timestral-28M (With Promo & Price) Blind Forecast (Sales History Only) Spreadsheet Average

3. Stockroom Countdown: Will Your Shelves Go Empty?

Tracks remaining stock day-by-day under normal demand (blue) vs. a 9-in-10 busy rush (red dashed).

4. Quiet Week vs. Worst-Case Rush (All 21 Confidence Levels)

Any red dots above the green "Stock on Hand" line represent scenarios where you run out of stock.

From "Gut-Feel Guessing" to Instant Foresight

Spreadsheets Are Blind to Context

Traditional AI Required a Data Scientist

Zero Training. Instant "What-If" Simulation.

Analyzing your scenario...

✨ Timestral-28M Batch Optimizer Results (8 Strategies Tested in -- ms)

📋 Plain-Language Decision Impact: What Your Choices Actually Do

1. Your Next 14 Days: "Do Nothing" vs. Your "What-If" Plan

2. Why Trust It? We Hid the Last 14 Days (Which Had a Real Promo) & Tested 3 Methods

3. Stockroom Countdown: Will Your Shelves Go Empty?

4. Quiet Week vs. Worst-Case Rush (All 21 Confidence Levels)