Sound counsel for businesses built to last.
Abacist works with owners and leadership teams on the decisions that shape a company. We forecast what's coming, show you where the business is losing time and money, help you reach the right customers, and put together the plan to pay for growth.
What we do
Forecasting and prediction
We model demand, inventory, cash and risk from your own history, so purchasing, staffing and pricing decisions get made ahead of the curve.
Automation and applied AI
We find the work your team repeats by hand, such as quoting, order entry, invoicing and scheduling, and automate it where the payback is clear. We train your people to run what we build.
Product and marketing
Product strategy, pricing, distribution channels and marketing for companies that have grown on reputation and want to reach more of the right customers.
Capital and transactions
Financial models, lender and investor materials, and deal structure for financings, acquisitions and ownership transitions.
Analytics and reporting
Most businesses have more data than insight. We pull together what lives in your accounting system, CRM and spreadsheets, and turn it into reporting that the people running the business will actually read.
How we work
Start with the right question
We spend time up front understanding your business, your constraints, and what a useful answer looks like in your context.
Build the answer
We bring your data together from any source and apply statistical modeling, simulation or machine learning where it fits. You see the method as well as the result.
Hand over something usable
Findings are written for decision-makers. You get clear recommendations and everything you need to act on them and keep building after we're done.
Our work
Venture investment
We built a deal pipeline that used data and machine learning to predict investment outcomes and guide capital allocation, and reviewed hundreds of companies raising money.
Building-products manufacturer
We named the company, built its brand and ran its digital marketing on a deliberately lean budget as revenue grew eightfold.
Luxury leather goods brand
We rebuilt the company's online store and advertising from the ground up, turned the website into a real sales channel, and took the line into leading U.S. department stores.
National publication
We built the distribution platform and internal automation for a policy publication reaching more than 500,000 readers a year, and grew its revenue fourfold.