Project Northstar

Small coffee-shop and restaurant chains run promotions on gut feel and never learn whether they made money. Breakeven pairs a deterministic pricing engine with ZooWork agents to answer: what should each location do, and why? Our engine forecasts hourly demand from eight weeks of sales, adjusts for local events, and tests 5% and 10% discounts against break-even. It recommends a discount only when the numbers support it. ZooWork runs the AI layer. A Growth Planner agent builds strategy runs over 1 to 365 days, ranking promotions, organic campaigns and hold-and-monitor actions using only verified evidence. A content agent turns each recommendation into a plain-English explanation and an Instagram draft. Every ZooWork output is validated against the engine's real numbers, and if an agent is unavailable the app falls back to safe templates. ZooWork plans and writes; the engine sets prices; the manager approves.