Luminary Collective
A mid-market retailer replaced fragmented manual tooling with a full AI operations stack — cutting costs, errors, and decision latency across every department.
Luminary Collective
62%reduction in manual operationsThe challenge
Luminary Collective operated across four warehouse nodes with disconnected inventory systems, manual weekly reporting cycles, and a customer communication process entirely reliant on individual staff. Leadership had no real-time view of performance, and the operations team was spending 60% of their time on data consolidation instead of decision-making.
Our approach
We designed and deployed a full AI operations stack: an inventory forecasting model trained on 24 months of sales and logistics data, an AI-powered customer communication layer integrated with their Shopify storefront, and a real-time executive dashboard pulling from all four warehouse nodes. The entire system was integrated into their existing Shopify, NetSuite, and Klaviyo stack.
Timeline
8 weeks from kickoff to full production deployment
Tools
How it was built
Luminary Collective came to us with a problem that looks simple from the outside but is operationally complex at scale: four warehouses, three disconnected systems, and a reporting process that required two analysts working full days every week just to produce numbers that were already 48 hours stale by the time leadership saw them. The waste wasn't just in the hours spent — it was in every decision made without current information.
We started with the data infrastructure. The four warehouse management systems were feeding into nothing coherent. We built a unified Supabase data warehouse via n8n pipelines, establishing field-level ownership across Shopify, NetSuite, and Klaviyo to eliminate the conflicting records that had required manual reconciliation for years. Within the first week of go-live, the executive team had live inventory, sales, and fulfilment views for the first time.
The forecasting layer followed. We trained a multi-variate model on 24 months of historical sales velocity, seasonal patterns, and supplier lead times. It runs nightly, updating reorder recommendations across all SKUs. In the first 60 days, it benchmarked at 3.2× the accuracy of the prior human-managed process — not because the team was poor at their jobs, but because no human can hold 60 days of cross-SKU data in their head simultaneously.
The customer communication pipeline was the final piece. We replaced four static email templates with an LLM layer that generates context-aware messages based on purchase history, browsing behaviour, and support history. Messages pass through a lightweight tone classifier before being sent via Klaviyo — fully automated, fully auditable, and producing a 4× increase in communication volume without a single additional hire.
Measured outcomes
62% reduction in manual operations versus the prior 6-month average
3.2× inventory accuracy improvement measured across all four warehouse nodes
$1.4M projected annual savings identified in year-one cost analysis
Customer communication volume increased 4× with zero additional headcount
Inventory write-offs reduced by an estimated 38% in the first quarter post-launch
8-week deployment from kickoff to full production, including UAT and staff training
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