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Custom dashboards and ERP-style workflows configured around how your team actually runs — not someone else's playbook. Built by operators who've run real Shopify stores.

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Forecasting · Fall planning

SYNCED
Updated 2 minutes ago · 1,284 SKUs · 4 channels
Projected demand · Q4
$8.42M
▲ 14.2% vs LY
Units forecast
126,400
▲ 9.1% vs LY
Sell-through · L30
68%
▼ 2.4 pts
Coverage weeks
11.4
▲ 0.6 wks
Forecast vs actual
ActualForecastP10 / P90
Forecast →
Why this exists

The storefront is solved.
The operation isn't.

Ops teams at growing Shopify brands hit the same three walls. Spreadsheets that no one trusts, scattered tools that don't talk, and catalog work that drags by the SKU.

01 · Planning

Planning lives in spreadsheets

Demand, OTB, and buy plans get rebuilt every season in fragile workbooks that only one person can actually open.

demand-fall26_FINAL_v7_use-this.xlsx— Last edited by 4 people
A · SKU
B · Q4 fcst
C · Buy
D · MOQ
E · Notes
F
1
SKU-001
2,400
2,500
500
check w/ planner
2
SKU-002
#REF!
250
missing LY
3
SKU-003
880
880?
1000
below MOQ
4
SKU-004
1,200
1,200
500
5
SKU-005
#DIV/0!
no history
6
SKU-006
3,600
3,600
1000
7
SKU-007
540
??
500
discontinued?
02 · Execution

Sale execution is fragmented

Markdowns get planned in a doc, scheduled in Shopify, announced in Slack, and reconciled in BI — by hand, every time.

Email thread · 47
Sheet · markdowns
Slack DM
Shopify admin
Doc · sale plan v3
BI dashboard
03 · Catalog

Catalog updates are manual

Bulk edits in Shopify admin are still one-SKU-at-a-time. A 400-SKU price change is a half day someone has to schedule around.

title
Product A — Style 47
price
$48.00
copy
Updated description for fall collection…
meta
Category 1 · Top Sellers
Saving SKU 14 of 412 — 19 min remaining
What we build

Built around your operation.
Not the other way around.

Every brand runs differently. We configure modules to match how your team already thinks, and keep building as you scale. Here's a sample of what we've shipped — yours will look like yours.

FForecasting & demand

Forecasts that respect your real selling history.

We model demand around your channels, seasonality, and promo cadence. Editable in the workspace, pushed live to your buy.

● SKU-level● Channel-aware● Editable
Q4 forecast · 1,284 SKUsP50 · 26 weeks
Forecast →
Often replaces: spreadsheets, retail planning tools
PPromotion orchestration

Run promos across the calendar.

Plan, queue, and push markdown cadences. Configure rules, exclusions, and channel-specific pricing in one view.

Style
Wk 38
Wk 39
Wk 40
Wk 41
Style 47
SKU-001 · Cat 1
-15%
-25%
-30%
Style 12
SKU-014 · Cat 2
-10%
-10%
-20%
-30%
Style 33
SKU-027 · Cat 1
-20%
-40%
Style 06
SKU-044 · Cat 3
-15%
-25%
-40%
-50%
Style 89
SKU-061 · Cat 2
-10%
-15%
-25%
Often replaces: sale docs, manual price updates
AAssortment & buy

Build the line before it ships.

Plan SKU mix by category, channel, and season. Compare planned to actual without re-keying anything.

Fall 26 · Top Sellers
36 SKUs · 4 cats
001
002
003
004
005
006
007
008
009
010
011
012
013
014
015
016
017
018
019
020
021
022
023
024
025
026
027
028
029
030
031
032
033
034
035
036
HeroCoreLong tail
Often replaces: OTB spreadsheets, merch decks
OPre-order workflows

Sell what hasn't landed yet.

Per-variant toggles, ship-by dates, and inventory caps — without forking your theme or breaking checkout.

Product A · Style 47
3 of 6 active
Variant 01 · Cat 1
Ships Oct 14
Variant 02 · Cat 1
Ships Oct 14
Variant 03 · Cat 2
Ships Nov 02
Variant 04 · Cat 2
In stock
Variant 05 · Cat 3
In stock
Often replaces: theme hacks, third-party apps
CCatalog operations

Bulk-edit your catalog like code.

Preview every change as a diff. Push to Shopify in one batch. Roll back any field, any time.

Field
Before
After
price
$48.00
$42.00
title
Product A v1
Product A · Style 47
category
Misc
Top Sellers
inv_policy
deny
continue
meta.size
Cat 1
412 SKUs · 6 fields● ready to push
Often replaces: Matrixify, manual admin edits
Not on this list? Tell us what your team needs — most builds start as a conversation.
How it works

Built around
your operation.

Every engagement starts with discovery and ships custom infrastructure native to your Shopify stack. Operate it with your team — or ours.

STEP 01

Audit

We embed with your ops, merch, and ecom teams to map how your business actually runs today. Channels, planning cycles, tools, hand-offs, gaps. No assumptions, no templates.

Discovery notes
• Planning lives in 3 spreadsheets
• 2 sales channels, 1 wholesale portal
• Weekly merch sync, ad-hoc promos
• Manual PDP updates at scale
Status · in progress
STEP 02

Build

We design and build custom tooling around your stack — forecasting, sale execution, assortment, PDP workflows, whatever the operation needs. Native to Shopify, shaped to your team. Typical engagements ship in 4–8 weeks.

ScopeCustom build
Timeline6 weeks
Modules4 of 5
Statusshipping
STEP 03

Operate

Choose how we exit. Stay on as a fractional operator running ops alongside your team, or take full ownership of the build and run it yourself. Both paths are clean.

09:14 Forecast refreshed · 4,210 SKUs
09:08 Sale plan pushed to Shopify
08:52 Assortment review · approved
08:30 Weekly ops sync · complete
Why Data Pilot

Native, opinionated,
built by operators.

Native Shopify integration

OAuth in once. Read and write through Shopify's official APIs. No CSVs, no middleware, no theme edits.

S
Install Data Pilot
acme.myshopify.com
Read products, variants, inventory
Read orders & customers
Write product & price updates
Cancel
Install app

Built by operators

The people building Data Pilot have run merchandising, planning, and ecom ops at Shopify Plus brands. The product reflects the job.

How we build
For the planner, not the dashboard.
Spreadsheets exist for a reason. Start there.
Ship what your ops team would build themselves.
Audit log on everything. No black boxes.

Configured for your stack

Start with the workflow that hurts most. Add modules as your operation grows. Annual contract, monthly billing, one invoice.

Forecasting
Promotions
Assortment
Custom module
3 active · annualContact sales
Pricing

Pick Your Path

Two engagement models, both scoped to your operation. Exact numbers come out of the discovery call.

Build + Handoff
We build it. Your team runs it.
$5,000–$15,000+one-time

For brands with the internal team to operate the system themselves. We scope, build, document, and train. Then we exit cleanly and your team owns it.

  • Custom build, scoped to your business
  • Full documentation and training
  • 30-day post-launch support
  • One-time engagement, no recurring fees
  • Clean knowledge transfer to your team
Book a discovery call
Not sure which fits? Book a 30 minute call with us and we'll figure it out together.
Ready when you are

Run ops the way
your team already thinks.