Smoker's Alley
Retail operations for a three-store smoke shop on one system, with each store's stock kept its own.
A three-location retail operation that needed one public storefront and one operational back end, without the stores' inventories bleeding into each other.
The operational problemThree stores on one system will quietly show a customer stock that sits forty minutes away unless isolation is built into the data layer rather than applied as a filter in the interface.
What was delivered- A storefront covering all three locations, with per-store isolation enforced in the data layer.
- Staff time tracking against the store's own records.
- In-store display surfaces driven from the same catalogue as the public site.
- Deployed as a managed Node application on the host the client already pays for.
- Live and serving all three locations from one deployment.
- No sales, traffic or conversion figures are published here. The client has not approved any, and we will not estimate one.
Application engineering and deployment.
No consulting engagement on this one — it was delivered by the engineering arm directly for the client.
What this engagement draws on.
SOPHIA XT is the engineering arm of 3 Point Forward.
3 Point Forward
3 Point Forward does the business work: diagnosing what is actually wrong with an operation, planning the implementation, applied-AI consulting, training the staff who will run it, and managing the engagement.
SOPHIA XT — the engineering arm
SOPHIA XT does the engineering: custom business software, integrations, AI engineering, developer tooling and the research underneath it.
One company, two jobs. 3 Point Forward defines the operational problem and the implementation plan; SOPHIA XT builds what the plan needs. A company that already knows what it wants built can go straight to SOPHIA XT, and a company that needs the problem defined first should start at 3 Point Forward. Either door reaches the same team.
Something like this, for your operation?
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