BOARD FORESIGHT

Plan continuously with external data, AI, and predictive analytics.

With Board Foresight, you can harness over 5 million datasets and advanced analytics to anticipate market shifts and plan with confidence. It’s how visionary brands like Kraft Heinz and Whataburger build their edge amidst global volatility. 

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Identify drivers. Enhance forecasts. Monitor in real time.

Accelerate business performance and drive continuous planning with greater forecast accuracy. Get clear explanation and interpretation delivered through generative AI to align business strategies and gain a competitive advantage by taking action based on all external factors—not just historical data. Board Foresight automatically identifies the most relevant industry indicators from millions of global data sets, correlates them with internal time series data, and identifies key metrics that best determine your performance.

Turn market volatility into strategic advantage.

Winning companies don’t just build a plan. They prepare for what’s next. Learn how leading teams use Board to monitor market signals, model scenarios, and activate Plan B or Plan C the moment conditions shift. With macroeconomic insight and real-time collaboration, your organization can move faster and plan with confidence.

Foresight for Your Industry

Board Foresight adapts to the specific pressures of your industry—whether you’re responding to shifting consumer demand, optimizing retail operations, or managing volatility in manufacturing inputs like energy, labor, and raw materials. Make faster decisions, uncover deeper insights, and build more resilient planning tailored to your business.

Manufacturing

Stay ahead of disruption in a complex, volatile world.

From rising input costs and labor shortages to global supply chain disruptions, manufacturers are under constant pressure to adapt plans and assumptions faster. Board Foresight empowers manufacturing teams to:

  • Model the impact of economic headwinds on margins, production, and logistics
  • Run real-time scenarios around tariffs, labor costs, and energy price spikes
  • Uncover root causes of performance issues using advanced correlation analytics
  • Adjust pricing and product mix before profitability is hit

Achieve more agile, data-backed decisions—even in uncertain markets.

CPG

Balance short-term responsiveness with long-term growth.

In fast-moving environments, staying aligned with consumer demand and protecting margin goals is a constant challenge for CPG companies. Board Foresight helps leaders to:

  • Forecast demand using external signals like sentiment, seasonality, and footfall
  • Connect operational, financial, and strategic planning in one view
  • Use external trends to guide innovation and optimize product portfolios
  • Anticipate the impact on consumer spending trends from shifts in wages, employment, and inflation to gain a competitive advantage

Smarter demand planning, stronger pricing, and better use of working capital.

Retail

Navigate uncertainty and stay in sync with shifting shopper behavior.

Retailers face mounting pressure to adapt quickly to changing consumer preferences, supply chain disruptions, and persistent economic volatility. Board Foresight empowers retail leaders to:

  • Forecast demand using external signals like sentiment, weather, and mobility trends
  • Simulate the impact of inflation, interest rates, and channel shifts on sales and margin
  • Identify performance drivers across regions, categories, and customer segments
  • Optimize inventory, pricing, and promotions based on predictive insights

From demand to delivery, make faster, smarter decisions rooted in real-world signals.

WHAT YOU GET

Take strategic action based on all the factors impacting your business – including tariffs.

Board Foresight delivers everything you need to seamlessly access external insights and turn real-time data into a real-world competitive advantage.

  • Scenario-based forecasting
    The Foresight Engine enables customers to build baseline, optimistic, and pessimistic forecasts grounded in real-time tariff assumptions.

  • Macroeconomic intelligence with Gen AI explainability
    Allows the adjustments of key assumptions (e.g., employee wages, interest rates, unemployment, industrial production, producer prices, and consumer spending) to reflect potential downstream effects of tariffs and get clear explanation and interpretation delivered through generative AI.

  • Data-driven planning vs. guesswork
    By aligning planning with actual macroeconomic indicators and trade policy shifts, we give enterprise customers a more confident, agile outlook for 2025.

  • Contingency planning support
    Customers are empowered to prepare alternate plans and mitigate risks based on scenario-specific consumer and economic behavior.


Global Intelligence Cloud

Enterprise data is only half the story of your business. Get a complete picture with instant access to more than 5.5 million global datasets and external indicators that could impact your bottom line.

  • 10K+ global data sources

  • 168 industries 

  • 8 macro sectors   

Daily updates from millions of sources.


AI-Powered Correlation Engine

There can be such a thing as too much data—focus on finding the insights that matter most. Use Foresight to identify external data most relevant to your industry, organization, category, and geography.



Hypothesis Testing and Validation

Every market shift tells a story about your business. Gain deeper insights with advanced visual analytics to explore key relationships, uncover trends, and anticipate changes with precision.



Advanced Predictive Analytics

The fastest route to getting ahead of your competition starts with leveraging ML and AI algorithms and ends with advanced econometric models—all done in just a matter of minutes.



Integrated Intelligence

When it comes to data-driven collaboration, make sure the last mile is not a problem. Foresight delivers with automated insights, intuitive business intelligence, and integrated reporting.

Leading enterprises supercharge forecasting with
Board Foresight. 

Pete Valadez

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Whataburger

This has been a game-changer for Whataburger. By incorporating external data and predictive analytics into our forecasting process, we've been able to dramatically improve our accuracy and avoid missed expectations. The real-time alerts and collaborative nature of the solution have empowered our entire team to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Jac Connolly

Senior Economist, The Kraft Heinz Company

Board Foresight really helps us bring a rigorous analytical approach to our forecasting.



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