Crest AI

Crest positions itself as AI-powered supply-chain planning for eliminating overstock and stockouts. The homepage describes SKU- and node-level demand, inventory and stockout visibility, purchase-planning suggestions, distribution planning, integrations, dashboards and consensus planning; it says Crest can be integrated in two days and faster replenishment frees working capital.

The official sitemap enumerates the current company, product, industry, pricing, blog, legal and customer-story surfaces. It contains one dedicated customer-story URL: the Samosa Party case. No other individual customer-story URL is listed.

Crest says it automates demand and inventory tasks, generates insights and forecasts, and was founded by Rahul Vishwakarma (CEO), Akhil Kumar (CGO) and Yogesh Byahatti (CTO). The page identifies Conifer Innovations Private Limited and CIN U72900KA2022PTC163144 and lists Bengaluru registered and corporate offices.

Crest discloses a workflow-based subscription: INR 10,000 monthly base price; INR 16,000 intra-day and INR 14,000 inter-day workflow units; INR 2,500 dashboards; INR 1,000 super users; INR 800 additional users; INR 3,000 integrations; and a separately quoted one-time master-data implementation fee. Minimum configuration is two workflows and one dashboard, implementation averages one to three weeks, and international country/currency price tables are published. The page carries named testimonials: P-TAL describes poor warehouse-stock visibility and a Crest-built EasyEcom-to-Zoho workflow for invoice reconciliation and sales classification; Mokobara describes multichannel inventory visibility and space optimization; ADRO reports lower out-of-stock rates using demand and vendor constraints.

Crest markets continuously updated SKU- and store-level forecasts across channels, incorporating trends, seasonality, availability, promotions, competition and lead times. The page repeats customer testimonials including Samosa Party, Mosaic Wellness, P-TAL, Mokobara and ADRO.

Crest says it generates automated purchase orders using inventory, demand and vendor constraints. Generated POs include order date, lead time, expected arrival and SKU quantity, while other site copy describes the same output as order suggestions. The page does not state that Crest sends a PO to a supplier, obtains acknowledgement, or makes an external purchase commitment.

Crest markets automated replenishment and allocation across multiple inventory echelons, using inventory and demand variables to maintain stock at each network node. It does not document courier booking or physical transfer-order execution.

Crest says it connects online stores and POS, inventory systems, cloud ERPs, logistics/3PL, WMS and Amazon Vendor Central. The current pricing FAQ names Amazon, Flipkart, Shopify, Unicommerce, EasyEcom, ERPNext, Zoho Books, OneDrive, Google Drive, Intuit, Postgres, SFTP and SQL Server, and says custom stacks are usually connected within one week.

Crest markets collaborative forecast input, side-by-side scenarios and configurable multi-level approvals across sales, marketing and supply-chain stakeholders.

HELIX is marketed as a modular workflow builder for S&OP. It automates data pipelines and coordinates demand, purchase and distribution decisions using configurable cards, transformations and business constraints.

The current customer-stories hub links one dedicated case study, Samosa Party. Other named customer evidence is presented as testimonial cards on product and pricing pages rather than individual case-study pages.

Crest's named Samosa Party case reports up to 95% demand fulfilment, daily stockouts below 3%, revenue loss below 5%, food waste and expiry below 2%, and product expiration/waste declining as much as 98%. The page supplies named quotations from Samosa Party's technology lead and founders and describes automated demand forecasting and planning across 45-plus stores.

Crest's official company page says it was founded in 2022, is headquartered in Bengaluru, has 11-50 employees and was co-founded by Rahul Vishwakarma, Akhil Kumar and Yogesh Byahatti. It claims existing customers reduced stockout frequency 50% and increased top-line revenue 15% within three months, and names Lenskart, Samosa Party and Salad Days among trusted customers. LinkedIn lists three funding rounds, with the latest a February 2024 seed round, but no amount.

Crest says Deep Bajaj of Sirona Hygiene and Diksha Pande of Samosa Party invested an undisclosed amount after their companies used the product. Sirona's co-founder describes a satisfactory end-user experience after trying other platforms; Samosa Party's co-founder says Crest automates workflows and predicts high-demand periods. Crest says it was founded in January 2022 and was five months into launch at the time.

Rahul Vishwakarma's official profile identifies him as Crest's co-founder and CEO and gives Bengaluru as his location.

After a conversation with Samosa Party founders, Kalaari investor Vamshi Reddy reported that Crest generates automated replenishment indents for 100-plus locations using openings, seasonality, holidays, launches, promotions and historical demand. He described full ERP integration and zero manual intervention for day-to-day operations.

The official profile identifies Surya Theja Gummadi as a Mokobara supply-chain and inventory professional, linking the otherwise unlabeled company logo on Crest's testimonial card to Mokobara. Crest's testimonial attributes real-time multichannel inventory visibility and automated space optimization to him.

Inflection Point Ventures published a founder testimonial about its impact on Crest's growth; Rahul Vishwakarma thanked IPV for partnering with Crest. This supports IPV as an investor/partner but discloses no amount, round economics or valuation.

Crest's official LinkedIn product page lists The White Willow, The Boolchand Group, P-TAL, Lenskart, Gatti Chutney, Mosaic Wellness, Mokobara and Story@Home as featured customers. These are logo/featured-customer references, not outcome cases by themselves.

The current privacy policy names Conifer Innovations Pvt Ltd doing business as Crest, covers the app and platform domains, and describes business-focused services. It says payment processing data may be handled by Chargebee and Stripe. The pricing FAQ separately claims customer data is hosted on a private Google Cloud network and encrypted at rest.