Ask your shop anything.
Every answer you need is already sitting in your records. Rai is the business analyst who reads them. Ask in plain language - English, Swahili or Sheng - and get the answer with the numbers behind it. Never a guess.
Built for electronics, hardware and spare-parts traders. Kenya first, then across Africa.
You already have the numbers. What you don’t have is the time.
Somewhere in your system is the answer to why last month was thinner than the one before. Which supplier is quietly costing you money. Which twelve items have not moved since March and are holding four hundred thousand shillings hostage on your shelves.
Getting to any of it means knowing which report to open, what to filter, and how to read what comes back - on an evening when you have already been on your feet since six. So it waits. And the shop runs on memory and instinct, which are excellent right up until the month they are not.
See it answer
One question. A real answer.
This is not a demo script. It is the shape of every reply Rai gives: what it found, in your words, with the figures that prove it.
Why are these coming back?
Eleven units came back in the last 90 days, and eight of them are the same item: the 3MP indoor camera. All eight came in on one delivery from Stylar in March.
That batch is behaving differently from the rest - cameras from your April delivery have a return rate of 2%, this one is at 19%.
Notice what is missing. Rai did not ask you for serial numbers it could look up itself. It did not offer a menu of reports it could run. It did not narrate its own machinery. It went and looked, and then it told you - which is what you would want from a good manager, and almost never get from software.
Why the numbers are right
A confidently wrong number is worse than no answer at all.
Point a language model at a business database and ask it for last month’s margin, and it will give you something. It will look right. That is the danger.
Business systems do not store money where you would expect. Real revenue sits in the ledger, not the sales screen. Margin has to be rebuilt from what the goods actually cost when they went out of the door - not what they cost to replace today.
So Rai does not improvise. Every question you can ask maps to a measure that was written, reviewed and tested by hand: what revenue means, how margin is reconstructed, how days-of-stock is counted. Rai’s job is to understand your question well enough to pick the right one - not to invent arithmetic on the spot.
For the genuinely unusual question, Rai will go further afield - and when it does, it shows its working, so you or your accountant can check it before you act on it.
What Rai does
An analyst who never goes home.
Any report, by asking
Ask, and get a table and a chart back. Export it to PDF or Excel. Save it and rerun it next month without asking again.
Advice with figures attached
Not "consider reducing stock". Rather: clear these twelve items - KES 340,000 tied up, nothing sold in 90 days. Every recommendation carries the numbers it rests on.
The morning brief
What moved, what is at risk, and three things worth doing today. Waiting for you before you open. This is the one owners come to depend on.
Alerts, the moment it matters
A fast-mover about to run out. A margin sliding on a category. A supplier's price jumping. A till that does not balance. Sent when it happens, not at month end.
On WhatsApp, in your language
Ask from wherever you are and get answers back on WhatsApp, with SMS as a fallback. English, Swahili or Sheng - whichever you think in.
Quiet losses, surfaced
Unusual voids, odd discounts, sales after closing, cash that keeps coming up short. The signals are already in your data. Rai is the one who notices.
Warranty and bad batches
Which units are still under warranty, and when returns start clustering around one supplier’s delivery - before you have taken the whole batch on the chin.
What to buy, and when
Predicted stock-out dates and suggested reorder quantities from your own sales history, so buying stops being a guess made on a Friday afternoon.
Your data
Your records never leave your server.
This is not a policy we promise to keep. It is how the thing is built.
Rai works out what needs fetching and sends that plan to a small piece of software running on your own server. That piece runs the plan there, against your database, and sends back only the result - a return rate, a total, a list of twelve item codes.
Your customers’ names and numbers, your invoices, your individual transactions: none of it is transmitted, and none of it is stored by us. What travels is the size of an answer, not the size of your business.
The link between the two is signed and encrypted, and every question Rai is asked - along with what it looked at and what it said - is written to an audit log you own.
Nothing happens without you
Rai reads freely. It writes only when you say so.
It will draft a purchase order for the fast-mover that is about to run out. Photograph a supplier’s invoice and it will read it and prepare the entry. But a draft is all it is - until you approve it, nothing touches your live records.
Every draft, every approval and every question is logged and reversible. There is no mode in which Rai acts on your business quietly.
Built for shops where the margins are thin and the stock is the business.
Rai is made first for electronics, hardware and spare-parts traders - the shops that live on inventory accuracy, buy from many suppliers, and lose money in a hundred small ways that never show up on a single line. Kenya first, then across Africa.
It arrives inside UpeoRetail, where the records already are, so there is nothing to migrate and nothing new to learn. You ask; it answers.
Questions people ask first
Does my business data leave my server?
No. Rai decides what to fetch and sends that plan to a small connector running on your own server. The connector runs it there and returns only the computed result - revenue by item, a return rate, a stock figure. Your customer records, invoices and raw transaction rows stay on your premises.
How do I know the numbers are right?
Rai does not point a language model at your database and let it invent queries. Every business question maps to a curated measure written and tested by hand - what revenue means, how margin is reconstructed, how days-of-stock is counted. For anything genuinely outside that set, Rai shows its working so you and your accountant can check it.
Can Rai change things in my system?
Only with your explicit approval. Rai reads freely, but it can never write silently. It drafts - a purchase order for a fast-mover running low, a purchase entry read off a photo of a supplier invoice - and nothing reaches your live records until you approve it. Every action is logged.
What languages does Rai speak?
English, Swahili and Sheng. Ask in whichever you think in, and Rai answers in the same.
Which businesses is Rai built for?
Electronics, hardware and spare-parts shops - traders in commodity and serialised goods, in Kenya first and then across Africa. These are businesses that live on inventory accuracy, thin margins and multi-supplier buying, which is where Rai’s grounding is strongest.
What does the name mean?
Rai is Swahili for advice, or counsel. That is the job: turn a shop’s own records into answers it can act on.
Ask your shop the question you have been putting off.
Tell us about your business and we will show you Rai answering a question about it.
UpeoAI Limited · Nairobi, Kenya