The agentic AI workflow for independent restaurants
Seven agents read the records you already produce, propose priced moves on costs, prep, orders, schedules, cash and pricing, and change nothing until you approve.
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forecast quantiles
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The workflow
Approved Mon 06:42 · receipt 9f3a1c7e
Every proposal states its expected effect as a range and cites the invoice, the recipe and the sales it came from.
Nothing consequential happens without a person. Approve, edit, decline or defer; every decision leaves a write-once receipt.
Reinforcement learning over three separate signals, what you approve, what gets done and what it earned, ranks the next proposal.
The graph
One graph links your menu to its dishes, recipes, ingredients, invoices, shifts, sales and ledger.
A mozzarella price on one Sysco invoice reaches two recipes, two dishes, their contribution and the cash plan.
Every fact is dated twice: when it was true, and when the system learned it. A correction made today never rewrites last month.
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A founding restaurant's graph, reproduced exactly by the parity gate, October 2026.
Forecasting
Daily sales, 28 days observed and 14 ahead. Dollars per day.
A Chronos-2 foundation model adapted to your restaurant with LoRA, a temporal graph transformer that reads your menu structure, and nine quantiles per day turn sales history into a range you can plan prep, orders and staffing to.
80 to 84%
Every Chronos-2 variant beat the four-week baseline on 56 held-out days, July 7 to August 31, 2026, and the 80 percent bands held on 80 to 84 percent of days.
Training record dated October 20, 2026
The restaurant model
Fixed-cost cut per week
Five states, customers, perceived quality, staffing capacity, cash and price, fitted to your records with a particle filter.
It finds the two states a restaurant can live in and the line between them, in guests per week.
It tests a staffing, pricing or fixed-cost move before you make it. Cut fixed cost by $1,037 a week and the low state disappears. Commit before the season, not into the trough.
205
low state, guests a week
242
tipping point
448
high state
From a live restaurant's fitted model, report dated September 11, 2026. The 205, 242 and 448 marks are from the report; the flow between them is the model's reduced form.
Learning
A contextual bandit, the reinforcement-learning method that ranks choices by their outcomes, learns from three separate signals, so a click never counts as profit and the next proposal starts from your priorities.
1,000 pairs · 700 trained · 300 held out
Trained on 700 simulated restaurant and operator pairs and scored on 300 held out by whole restaurant family: 26-week episodes, 48 controls, 47,215 weekly decisions in training. Four behaviors compared head to head, frozen RL, a one-week planner, a four-week planner and uniform exploration, and all 1,200 sealed test episodes replayed exactly by a red team.
October 21 to 22, 2026
The whole workflow
Monday 06:10 · Operations and menu agents
Sysco invoice 48812 read; 14 ingredient prices update across the graph; two reprice proposals arrive with their expected effect.
Approved 06:42Margherita $16.50 · Lasagna $18.50receipt 9f3a1c7e
Tuesday 05:30 · Forecast and inventory agents
A daily range for the next 14 days; prep at the 80th percentile; an order to the safe side: 6 cases mozzarella, 4 cases tomatoes.
Approved 07:15order draft ready for your signaturereceipt 41be02d9
Wednesday 06:00 · Operations agent
Servers per shift at the 50th percentile, one on call at the 80th for Friday and Saturday; labor at 29.4 percent of forecast sales.
Edited 08:02one more server Fridayreceipt c7d0e815
Thursday 09:00 · Advertising agent
The advertising agent drafts the weekend special; the nine-dimension rubric scores it 9.2 of 10; print checked at 300 dpi.
Approved 09:40you post itreceipt 2a9f6b30
Friday 23:10 · Forecast agent
Friday sales $4,310 against a likely $4,120 and an 80 percent range of $3,480 to $4,760.
Inside the rangeforecast receipt records the hitreceipt 5d2e9c47
Saturday 06:00 · Bookkeeping agent
The 13-week cash plan is rebuilt on the low side of the range: payroll, rent, Sysco terms. Minimum cash $11,900 in week 6, above the reserve.
Reviewed 07:05no action neededreceipt 88d1f4a2
Sunday 23:30 · Bookkeeping and intelligence agents
POS to deposits, tips and fees reconciled; the weekly P&L drafted; every approval listed with its receipt; the learner updated from four approvals, one edit and no declines.
Closed 23:48journals to CPA reviewreceipt e3c75d1b
Week of October 19, 2026 · Demo numbers
| Sales | $24,860 |
| Food cost (29.0%) | $7,210 |
| Labor (29.4%) | $7,310 |
| Other operating | $2,140 |
| Fixed cost | $5,889 |
| Operating result | $2,311 |
Receipts 9f3a1c7e 41be02d9 c7d0e815 2a9f6b30 5d2e9c47 88d1f4a2 e3c75d1b
Monday. The invoices land and two reprices are proposed, priced and approved by 06:42.
Tuesday. The forecast sets prep and an order to the safe side of the range.
Wednesday. The schedule follows the likely side; you add one server for Friday.
Thursday. The weekend special is drafted, scored 9.2 and approved. You post it.
Friday. Sales land inside the range, and the forecast receipt records the hit.
Saturday. The 13-week cash plan is rebuilt on the low side. Nothing to do.
Sunday. The week closes, the P&L is drafted, and the learner updates from what you approved.
One week, every agent, seven receipts, and a P&L you can open to its sources.
The utilities
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Pricing
No contracts.
No setup fee. Billing starts after the baseline is ready and you approve activation. Cancel before the next monthly renewal. Annual: $2,988 per location per year. The full package
Guardrails
Every connection starts in read mode; dry run is the default for every adapter.
Posting journals, paying bills, placing orders and moving money always wait for a person.
Write-once, never rewritten, never deleted, binding the decision, the actor and the output hash.
Content-addressed, encrypted evidence; employees pseudonymized; no guest record; raw rows never reach a model.
Connections
Point of sale
Banking and cards
Payroll and scheduling
Suppliers and invoices
Accounting
Reservations
Delivery
Reviews
New connections are added on request. Every connection reads before it proposes, and MFA is always yours to complete.
Who built it
MarginVector OS was built by a restaurant operator with a PhD in applied physics who manages AI model risk at a major bank. He owns and runs an independent full-service restaurant and built the platform to run it: nightly POS exports, weekly payroll, the books, inventory and advertising. The physics is in the restaurant model, dynamical systems applied to a dining room. The model-risk discipline is everywhere else: leakage gates, sealed holdouts, chronological backtests, promotion gates that fail closed, hash-chained ledgers and a critic that checks every answer against the evidence. No bank affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Questions
No. Agents propose. Consequential actions wait for a person, and every decision leaves a receipt.
Your POS, your bank and card accounts through Plaid, payroll, supplier invoices, accounting, reservations, delivery and reviews. Every connection reads first, with an evidence hash on every record.
No. It is the intelligence and workflow layer around the records you already have. Draft journals go to your CPA for review. Payroll files go to your processor.
No. Your evidence stays in your private workspace, models that see your data are adapted for your restaurant alone, and your preferences are never pooled.
Four stages, each with a deliverable: a source check, connect and reconcile, configure and rehearse, then the first 30 days after activation with a value review.
The assistant with 100 investigations a month, connected operating intelligence, guided setup with two sessions, owner plus two managers, and a first-month value review. Custom integrations, historical cleanup and provider pass-through fees are scoped separately.
Yes. No contracts. Cancel before the next monthly renewal, and billing starts only after you approve activation.
Scale plans for groups are opening by invitation. Write to us with your locations and your POS.
Start
$299 per location per month. No contracts. Billing starts after you approve activation.