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FATHOM

Fathom

SignalRisk 37

Demand sensing for independent grocers. Turns loyalty, weather, and local events into a morning order that beats the chain’s forecast without a data science hire.

Year-1 ARR

$0

TAM

$2.9B

Daily yield

Not live

Market

Single and small-banner grocers, $8M–$80M revenue, currently ordering from habit and vendor push.

Architecture

Nightly POS drop, local event scrape, a 06:00 order file in the wholesaler’s format. Helix never touches the customer identity graph.

Execution

Scout is still proving the signal. No architecture freeze until two banners share a clean 90-day extract.

Stress-test

  • POS exports are inconsistent; three vendors, no shared schema.
  • Shrink vs. stockout trade-off is the actual KPI, not forecast MAPE.
  • Wholesaler will fight any order that reduces their forward-buy.

Gates

  • Retail data rightsHold
  • Loyalty privacyHold

Risk vector

Market

Ops

Legal

Counterparty

Concentration

Liquidity