Guidance
Guidance is in commercial rebuild with CPG design partners, shaping a connected operations platform for demand planning, inventory, COGS...
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Description
Guidance is in commercial rebuild with CPG design partners, shaping a connected operations platform for demand planning, inventory, COGS, traceability, and co-packer workflows.
About Guidance
What is Guidance?
Guidance is a CPG operations platform being rebuilt for commercial release with design partners. Its public modules describe planned workflows rather than generally available software.
What Guidance does
The commercial design connects costing, inventory, production, purchasing, fulfillment, traceability, and planning through a shared data model. A structured conversation is intended to become a configuration blueprint reflecting a brand’s products, suppliers, channels, and operations.
Who Guidance is for
It is intended for small and growing CPG brands managing ingredients, co-packers, stock, production, costs, and channel margins.
How Guidance works
Interested brands apply as design partners to shape workflow priorities and rollout order. The planned setup maps operational information into connected models, with prototype-informed concepts being validated before a commercial launch.
Key features
- Planned costing connects ingredients, packaging, freight, labor, yield, and co-packer fees.
- Target cost propagation shows effects across bills of materials and margins.
- Planned inventory tracks stock by lot, SKU, and location.
- Production scope includes batch management, yield, and scheduling.
- Purchasing design includes supplier management and replenishment.
- Target traceability connects forward recalls, backward traceback, and lot genealogy.
- Planned fulfillment handles orders, lot allocation, and shipments.
Facts from guidance.so, checked 13 October 2026
- The site describes an activity-based point model as proposed.
- A working prototype informed the rebuild direction.
Written from Guidance's own website (Homepage, Pricing, Features). The maker can claim this listing to edit it.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Guidance available for live demonstrations?
The site explicitly says it is not yet available for live product demonstrations.
Can the displayed plans be purchased?
The pricing page calls its tiers draft goals and says they are not purchasable today.
Is pricing final?
Final pricing, module scope, point allocations, and commercial policies remain to be set before release.
What input do design partners provide?
They help shape the commercial build, workflow priorities, and rollout sequence for CPG brands.
Are the homepage examples live product runs?
The examples are labeled conceptual or target workflow illustrations rather than a live product demonstration.