Today marks a defining milestone for NomadGo: Starbucks announced they are deploying our Inventory AI across all 11,300 of their North American locations.
This moment is a defining milestone for us on two fronts: it validates the Inventory AI category we’ve created, and it proves that our Spatial Vision technology is the right solution to define this category.
Creating Value and Validating a New Category: Inventory AI
For decades, the food service and retail industries have relied on one of the most inefficient processes imaginable: employees manually counting inventory with their fingers. Accuracy hovers around 85%, which leads directly to over-ordering, under-ordering, waste, stockouts, and dissatisfied customers. The ripple effects extend far beyond the back room—they flow through the supply chain, impacting labor efficiency, sales forecasting, and ultimately the financial health of the enterprise.
By deploying NomadGo, Starbucks is affirming that Inventory AI is no longer a “nice to have” — it’s essential infrastructure. Automated, accurate, and real-time inventory visibility is the foundation for solving systemic supply chain inefficiencies. With this announcement, the category is validated at global scale.
Proving the Right Solution: Spatial Vision
Not only does this announcement validate the need for Inventory AI—it also proves that our approach is the right one. NomadGo’s patented Spatial Vision fuses computer vision, 3D intelligence, and AR into multimodal, multi-sensor models that run directly on-device.
Why does this matter?
- On-device AI eliminates reliance on cloud connectivity, ensuring speed, privacy, and scalability across thousands of stores without ballooning infrastructure costs.
- Multi-sensor input (cameras, depth, motion) increases accuracy and robustness in diverse store conditions.
- Multimodal models adapt to real-world complexity—different products, packaging, lighting, and shelf configurations—without requiring extensive retraining.
This combination makes Spatial Vision uniquely suited for any inventory environment (food service, retail, hospitality, transportation, manufacturing, etc.), where conditions are dynamic, throughput is critical, and margins are tight.
The Road Ahead
Starbucks’ decision to deploy NomadGo across North America is more than a customer win—it’s a signal to the industry that Inventory AI is here, it’s real, and it’s transformative. By solving the challenges of manual counting with AI, we are unlocking new levels of efficiency and accuracy across supply chains.
And with Spatial Vision, we’ve proven that the technology exists today to make it scalable, cost-effective, and enterprise ready.
This is just the beginning. The future of inventory is automated, intelligent, and actionable—and NomadGo will make sure everything of value in the world can be counted.
