By the Numbers Forecast AI & Goals
How we Forecast:
At By the Numbers, our AI-enhanced forecasting tool helps you predict future trends in your business with accuracy and ease. Using advanced predictive techniques, powered by artificial intelligence, we analyze historical patterns and account for factors like seasonality, holidays, and customer behavior to deliver reliable forecasts across key metrics such as sales, orders, and customer segments.
Our approach excels at handling data with strong seasonal patterns, adjusting for yearly, weekly, and daily fluctuations. It also accounts for holiday impacts, allowing for more accurate predictions during busy periods. Whether you are forecasting sales, orders, or preset and custom audiences, By the Numbers helps you stay ahead of trends.
The tool is built to adapt to data imperfections, ensuring accurate forecasts even if your historical data contains gaps, outliers, or sudden changes. This flexibility makes it ideal for businesses that may not have consistent data but still need reliable insights to plan for the future.
In addition to its accuracy, our forecasts are fast, delivering insights quickly so you can act in real-time. Whether you're setting financial targets, managing inventory, or strategizing around audience engagement, By the Numbers provides the AI-powered insights you need to make informed decisions efficiently.
Where to see your Sales Forecast
1. Forecast AI & Goals Section: Once you’ve set up a goal, your forecast is integrated into the Forecast AI & Goals section, allowing you to track progress and make adjustments based on predictive insights for your sales, orders, and audiences.
2. Insights Page: At the top of the Insights page, you’ll find a summary of your forecast, providing a quick overview of future trends in sales, orders, and audience engagement.
The forecasted amount is displayed in the top left for the current period. The value shown is the Total Sales forecast for that period, that includes both realized and unrealized sales.
The solid blue line is a graph of realized sales for the period, while the dotted blue line shows the forecasted sales remaining in the period.
How to use Sales Forecasting
The best way to use Sales Forecasting is with the Goals feature. There you can set a metric to track over a certain period, like monthly sales. To learn more about how to setup and track your goals see our Goals documentation.