Orders arriving for this shift
Orders received
AKIE estimate of final orders (10–90% range shaded)
First batch cooked
Final orders (known after cut-off)
Annambox Kitchen Intelligence Engine. This page replays real pre-orders from the Annambox pilot at one Bristol warehouse (2–27 Oct 2026, 49 shifts, 550 portions; no customer details). It shows the two decisions AKIE makes for a kitchen that has to start cooking before ordering closes: how much to cook now, and whether to cook a top-up batch at cut-off.
Simulation, not a pilot result. Annambox itself cooked after cut-off, so it always knew exact demand. The "cooking starts" and "kitchen size" settings show a larger kitchen working with the same ordering pattern. Food cost (£1.50), top-up cost (£8) and batch times are assumptions you can change.
Each shift is decided using only earlier shifts, the way a kitchen would use it day to day. Shifts without a same-shift record from the week before are left out.
From earlier shifts, AKIE learns what share of final orders has usually arrived by the time cooking must start.
At cooking start it scales up the orders received so far and gives a likely range, based on how wrong that estimate has been before.
It picks the batch size with the lowest expected cost, weighing an unsold box, a lost sale and the cost of cooking a top-up later.
Once ordering closes the total is known. If there is time before the break, AKIE sizes a top-up batch within the kitchen's capacity.
Data: Annambox Technologies Ltd order records, service dates 2–27 Oct 2026, order times relative to cut-off (11:30 day, 19:45 night). Prepared 11 Nov 2026 as a demonstration for discussion.