Stocklytics AI: An Open-Weight AI Assistant for Small Retail Businesses
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Small retail businesses have to manage inventory, billing, customer records, stock alerts, and sales analytics—often across disconnected tools. What if a shop owner could manage these operations in
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle
Small retail businesses have to manage inventory, billing, customer records, stock alerts, and sales analytics—often across disconnected tools.
What if a shop owner could manage these operations in one place and ask questions about their business in plain language?
That's the problem Stocklytics AI is designed to solve.
It's a retail operations platform for small and medium-sized stores, combining everyday business workflows with an AI assistant grounded in store data.
Instead of manually checking multiple screens and records, a store operator can ask questions such as:
The goal is to make useful business intelligence more accessible to retailers who don't have an enterprise software budget or a dedicated data team.
The intended customers are independent shop owners, small grocery and convenience stores, and specialist retailers.
A potential business model is a subscription priced per store, with different tiers for inventory size, analytics, or multiple locations.
This is a proposed business model, not a claim that Stocklytics AI already has paying customers. The next step would be to validate the workflow and pricing with real shop owners.
🎥 Demo video: https://youtu.be/e9IBF1SQq4Q
🌐 Deployed application: https://stocklytics-frontend-hpcb3ng5ra-el.a.run.app/
Stocklytics AI is a retail operations platform for small and medium stores. It combines inventory management, billing, customer records, alerts, analytics, and a grounded AI assistant in one workspace built for day-to-day store operations.
The project is implemented as a modular monolith backend with a modern Next.js frontend, and it is designed to run well on Google Cloud using Firestore, BigQuery, Cloud Run, and local Gemma open models.
Stocklytics AI was originally built for the Solution Challenge by Hack2skill and Google. In its initial version, the platform relied heavily on cloud-based AI, specifically…