How Socrates works

Your company runs on context.

People and agents work from the same foundation. Every approval and every correction makes your Company Brain more accurate. Socrates recommends, people approve.

Company Brain01Assess02Forecast03Optimize04Approve05Learn

Companies that decide with paretos

  • Otto Group
  • bonprix
  • HARTMANN
  • schülke
  • Uponor
  • Faller Packaging
  • Bültel
  • Hermes Einrichtungs Service
  • Pietsch
  • Spektrum
  • premiumXL
  • Otto Group
  • bonprix
  • HARTMANN
  • schülke
  • Uponor
  • Faller Packaging
  • Bültel
  • Hermes Einrichtungs Service
  • Pietsch
  • Spektrum
  • premiumXL
  • HelloFresh
  • Hermes
  • LASCANA
  • +GF+
  • Würth MODYF
  • AAA-Pharma
  • Pfenning
  • perpedes
  • Wunderlich
  • adapa
  • HelloFresh
  • Hermes
  • LASCANA
  • +GF+
  • Würth MODYF
  • AAA-Pharma
  • Pfenning
  • perpedes
  • Wunderlich
  • adapa
Foundation

What goes into the Company Brain

Anyone can buy a model. How your company decides, no one can. The Company Brain captures exactly that, belongs to you and becomes more accurate with every decision.

  1. Data

    Sales, inventory, orders and master data from your systems.

  2. Goals

    Service levels, costs, capacity: what matters to your company.

  3. Rules

    Minimum quantities, lead times, approval limits and other constraints.

  4. Experience

    Your team's corrections and decisions that otherwise live in people's heads and emails.

Data quality

Your data doesn’t need to be perfect

Many customers start with incomplete data. During onboarding, we improve the data foundation together with your team.

Webinar: Better forecasts through clean master data (German)
  1. Review your data together

    During onboarding, we describe your data together with your team. Along the way, Socrates shows you whether the amount of data is sufficient. Some customers started with just 100 rows of data.

  2. Agents uncover inconsistencies

    In master data such as predecessor-successor relationships and lifecycle status, agents suggest corrections. Your planners review and approve them.

  3. One data foundation for every team

    Together we lay the groundwork for an integrated data system that benefits every team.

How it works

From signal to approved decision

Every cycle follows the same five steps. It ends not with a slide, but with an action in your system and a Brain that knows more next time.

  1. Step 1

    Assess

    Socrates connects data from ERP, data warehouse, BI, Excel and planning tools with your team's knowledge. Everyone works from one shared, up-to-date foundation.

  2. Step 2

    Forecast

    Socrates creates recurring forecasts from your data and your Company Brain, for more planning certainty on demand and inventory.

  3. Step 3

    Optimize

    Socrates weighs goals, rules and constraints against each other and calculates which action fits the situation.

  4. Step 4

    Approve

    Socrates explains recommendations in plain language. Your team reviews exceptions, adds its knowledge and approves with full control.

  5. Step 5

    Write back and learn

    Approved actions flow back into your systems. Approved corrections become rules and apply to everyone in the next cycle.

Correction · Buyer A, week 32“Supplier Y has changed its quality assurance, lead times are going up.”
New ruleapprovedApply a risk buffer to supplier Y's lead time until quality assurance is confirmed. Applies to planning, purchasing and replenishment.
Company Brain

Four layers, one loop

At the bottom are your systems and your knowledge, in the middle the Company Brain, at the top people decide, supported by agents. Whatever is approved goes back into the system, and the Brain learns along the way.

BACK TO THE SYSTEM ON APPROVALLIVE EVENTSFROM THE SYSTEMS01 · DECISION LAYERPeople and agents,hand in handAgents prepare recommendations,your team reviews and approves.PEOPLEAI AGENTS02 · CONTEXT LAYERThe Company BrainHow your company decides: goals, rules andexperience, linked to your data and machine-readable.It learns with every approval and every correction.03 · KNOWLEDGECompany and external knowledgePolicies, documents and expert knowledge,plus market, weather and supplier signals.04 · SYSTEMSData foundationERP, CRM, data lakes and data warehouses,the operational truth of your company.READ / WRITE · EVERY DECISION FLOWS INTO THE BRAINSTRUCTURED INTO CONTEXTLINKED AND CURATED
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Ask questions, approve recommendations

Socrates calculates the action with forecasting and optimization models based on your Company Brain and makes it understandable: your team asks in plain language, in German or English, and reviews exceptions instead of spreadsheets.

  1. 01

    German and English

    Your team asks in plain language, typed or spoken, in German or English.

  2. 02

    EU hosting including inference

    Data and model calls stay in the EU, tenant-only. Made in Germany.

  3. 03

    No LLM lock-in

    The language model is interchangeable. Your Company Brain stays separated from other customers and belongs to you.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Company Brain

Your data, goals, rules and experience, prepared so that agents can build recommendations on them and your team can decide on them. It belongs to you, is traceable and becomes more accurate with every decision.

Getting started and data

Security and access

Consultation

Check your potential

Would you like to see which recommendations Socrates calculates from your data? Book a no-obligation meeting.

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Julia VogtDecision Intelligence Consultant
Ben EdlichDecision Intelligence Consultant

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