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Build your own AI tools for oven timing, staff schedules and spoken inventory counts

who Andy Brown, founder of Andy's Pizza (14 locations around Washington, D.C.)

The problem

A fast-growing chain needed better forecasting and scheduling, but he wanted a person to answer every phone and counter.

What happened

As reported by Axios: no headcount cuts, and he says customers come back because they don't deal with kiosks or automated phones. 'Now I, a nontechnical person with expert-level knowledge of my own business, can build software around the needs of my business.'

News report Source: Axios Washington D.C. (2026-05-12) · Added 2026-10-14. Results as reported by the source; we haven't independently verified them.

How to set it up yourself

1. Start with the decision you make most often (e.g., when to bake).
2. Feed it your own sales data.
3. Keep people on customer-facing work.

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