WaveForecast
Item-level and outlet-level demand forecasting using your history plus external signals.
AI operating intelligence for food businesses
Stop ordering tomorrow’s food with yesterday’s numbers.
Falah Wave forecasts demand for every item in every outlet, then tells your team exactly what to prep, what to buy, and where your margin is leaking — using the POS and inventory systems you already run.
Works alongside your existing POS · No system replacement · Arabic & English
Forecast demand
Chicken shawarma, all dayparts
412 units
Recommended purchase
Chicken thigh · order before 16:00
38 kg
Expected waste
If you order at your usual quantity
11 kg
Margin action
Cut the thigh order, hold the marinade prep
−9 kg
Representative interface. Figures are illustrative, not customer results.
The daily guess
Every order is a bet placed before you know the outcome.
- Demand shifts with the weekday, the weather, the season, events and promotions — but the order sheet doesn’t.
- Over-order and it spoils. Under-order and the item is off the menu by 8pm.
- POS, inventory, delivery and purchasing each hold one piece of the answer, and none of them talk.
- By the time the report shows the problem, the margin is already gone.
You don’t need another dashboard of what happened. You need to know what happens next — and what to do about it.
How it works
Connect. Predict. Act.
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Connect
Falah Wave reads the data your business already generates — POS, inventory, delivery platforms, promotions, suppliers — plus external signals like weather, events and seasonality. No new hardware, no system replacement.
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Predict
AI forecasts demand by outlet, item, day and hour, and flags where stock, prep or purchasing is about to go wrong.
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Act
Your team gets specific recommendations — prep this much, order this quantity, promote this item — not another chart to interpret.
The platform
One intelligence layer. Every operating decision.
WaveStock
Tracks inventory and predicts shortages, overstocks and expiring ingredients before they cost you.
WaveBuy
Turns forecast consumption into recommended purchase quantities and supplier orders.
WaveMenu
Analyses profitability, demand and ingredient use to guide smarter menu decisions.
WaveWaste
Finds recurring waste patterns and recommends the operational change that stops them.
Wave Copilot
Ask in plain language and get an answer you can act on.
- “What should we order tomorrow?”
- “Why did food cost increase this week?”
- “Which menu items should we promote tonight?”
The platform is available in Arabic and English.
Coming soon AI waste vision — cameras and smart scales that classify and quantify kitchen waste automatically.
What changes
Where the money comes back.
Five places a food business loses margin every week — and the five places a working forecast puts it back.
- Lower ingredient waste
- Lower inventory carrying costs
- Fewer stockouts and lost sales
- Better menu margins
- More accurate purchasing
Your numbers
What is waste costing you right now?
Put in your own figures. The number updates instantly and no email is required to see it.
Industry estimates commonly fall in this range — adjust to your own figure.
The improvement you’re aiming for. This is your target, not a Falah Wave result.
This is an illustrative estimate based on the figures you entered, not a projection of
results. Actual outcomes depend on your operation, data quality and how recommendations
are applied.
Want the detailed written breakdown, with the assumptions spelled out?
Estimated annual recovery
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A ±20% range around a point estimate of —.
- Your current annual waste cost
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- Estimated monthly recovery
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currentMonthlyWasteCost = outlets × spendPerOutlet × wastePct estimatedMonthlyRecovery = currentMonthlyWasteCost × reductionPct estimatedAnnualRecovery = estimatedMonthlyRecovery × 12
Why Falah Wave
Built to turn food data into decisions.
You see it coming.
Demand and operational risk are forecast before they hit your margin, not reported after.
Keep your POS.
Falah Wave works above the systems you already run — no rip-and-replace, no retraining your floor staff.
It understands your calendar.
Models account for Ramadan, Hajj and Umrah seasons, weekends, local events, weather and regional buying behaviour.
It gets sharper every week.
Every forecast, order, sale and waste event improves the next recommendation.
| Capability | POS & reporting tools | Waste-tracking tools | Falah Wave |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tells you what happened | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Predicts demand ahead | Limited | — | ✓ |
| Recommends what to purchase | Partial | — | ✓ |
| Prevents waste before it happens | — | Partial | ✓ |
| Connects it all in one layer | — | — | ✓ |
Categories of software, not named products. Capabilities vary between individual vendors.
Built for your operation
Whatever you run, the guesswork is the same.
Restaurant & café groups
One view across every branch, per-outlet forecasting, and a purchasing standard your branch managers actually follow.
Cloud kitchens
Hourly and daily demand forecasting across delivery platforms, with prep quantities that match the volume actually coming.
Hotels & catering
Event and seasonality signals for volume swings, buffet waste prevention, and supplier orders generated from the forecast.
Food retail
Expiry prediction on fresh, item-level demand on fast movers, and purchasing accuracy across the category.
Multi-brand groups
Central intelligence across brands and locations, with the operating detail each concept needs kept separate.
Who’s behind it
Built by people who know AI and know kitchens.
Dr Sadia Rafiq
Founder & CEO
Leading Falah Wave’s vision, strategy, partnerships and execution, with the mission of transforming food operations through artificial intelligence and data-driven decision-making.
Behind her is a multidisciplinary team spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science, food science, restaurant and hospitality operations, supply chain and procurement, and software engineering — so the forecast is built by people who understand both the model and the kitchen it runs in.
- AI & machine learning
- Data science
- Food science
- Restaurant operations
- Supply chain & procurement
- Software engineering
33.1% → 27.9%1
Saudi Arabia has cut its national food loss and waste indicator to approximately 27.9% — real progress, and a signal of how much value is still sitting in the gap.
1. Saudi national food loss and waste indicator, latest 2025 national measurement. Source citation pending client confirmation.
Aligned with Saudi Vision 2030 priorities for sustainability, food security and digital transformation.
Plans
Priced per outlet. Start with one, scale to the group.
Pricing scales with the number of connected outlets. Onboarding and integration are quoted separately, so you get a figure built around your operation rather than a list price that doesn’t fit it.
Starter
- Analytics
- Inventory intelligence
- Basic forecasting
Growth
- Advanced AI forecasting
- Procurement recommendations
- Menu intelligence
- Waste optimisation
Enterprise
- Multi-brand, multi-location
- API integrations
- Central management
- Dedicated AI models
- SLA & advanced analytics
Start with one outlet. Expand to the group when it’s proven.
Questions
The things operators ask us first.
Falah Wave is designed to sit above your existing POS, inventory and delivery systems rather than replace them. Tell us what you run and we’ll confirm on the call.
It depends on which systems you run and how your data is structured. We’ll give you a specific timeline on the call once we know your setup — we’d rather quote you a real date than a marketing one.
No. Falah Wave is an intelligence layer that works above the systems you already have. Your team keeps the tools they know.
Your operational data remains yours. We’ll confirm storage location, retention period and our security practices in writing before you share anything — ask us for it on the call.
More history sharpens the forecast, particularly across seasonal periods. Send us a POS export and we’ll tell you honestly what your data can and can’t support yet.
Yes — the platform is available in Arabic and English, including Wave Copilot.
Yes. Start with one outlet, prove it there, then expand to the group.
Per outlet, by plan. Onboarding and integration are quoted separately. Tell us how many outlets you run and we’ll put a figure in front of you.
Recommendations land in the workflow your managers already follow. There’s no new dashboard to babysit — the output is a prep quantity and an order quantity, not another report to interpret.
Next step
See what tomorrow looks like in your kitchen.
Book a 20-minute demo, or send us 30 days of POS data and we’ll come back with a written estimate of what you can recover.
- Who you’ll speak to
- Dr Sadia Rafiq — Founder & CEO
- Direct contact
- Contact details to be supplied before launch.
Thanks — we’ll be in touch.
We’ll be in touch within one business day.
- We read what you run today, so the call starts from your setup.
- You get a 20-minute walkthrough on your own numbers, not a generic deck.
- If you send 30 days of POS data, we return a written waste and margin estimate.