FAQ

B2B procurement, finance and risk teams in companies with raw-material commodity exposure — food & beverage, packaging, chemicals, freight, automotive, energy. Buyers responsible for fixing decisions on commodity inputs that move the P&L.

The decision gap between market signals and procurement commitments. INAYA forecasts every commodity 24 months ahead, projects exposure from the BOM to the forward P&L, and turns each fixing decision into an immutable, committee-ready audit record.

INAYA is not a market-data feed and not a broker. Data vendors give you prices; brokers give you trades. INAYA gives you the decision layer in between — quantified scenarios, BOM-linked impact, and a defensible record of why each fixing was made.

No. The platform is built for any company with material commodity exposure — from a 50-person manufacturer hedging copper to a multinational food group running 12 commodity desks. Deployment time and configuration scale to the buyer's footprint.

Energy (oil, natural gas, electricity), metals (copper, aluminium, steel), agricultural (cocoa, coffee, sugar, wheat), and freight. The forecasting and decision-governance stack is commodity-agnostic — new inputs are configured, not custom-built.

INAYA's ensemble has a five-year live track record above 90% directional accuracy on the commodities it covers. The methodology — autoregressive ensemble with regime-shift detection and analyst overlays — is documented in The Forward View, INAYA's public research stream.

Lisa is the conversational layer over the platform. Ask any commodity, BOM or exposure question in Teams, Slack, email or in-app; Lisa cites the underlying model and routes cited answers into Decision Governance so the rationale is captured automatically.

INAYA quantifies and ranks fixing scenarios with their probability-weighted P&L impact. It does not place trades and is not a broker. The platform is designed so the buyer's commitment is defensible, not delegated.

No. INAYA is the intelligence layer that sits above them. It pulls BOM, contracts and exposure from your existing systems, and pushes structured forecasts, decisions and audit trails back into Teams, Slack, email and your ERP. No rip-and-replace.

One week from kick-off. The platform connects to your BOM, contract and ERP data sources; forecasts are turned on for your commodity universe; Decision Governance and Lisa are configured for your team's workflow.

EU data residency by default — INAYA runs on EU-region cloud infrastructure with full encryption at rest and in transit. Customer BOM, contracts and decisions never leave the EU perimeter.

No. Customer data is never used to train shared models. INAYA's forecasting ensemble is trained on public commodity market data; the Lisa assistant runs retrieval grounded in your data without contributing to model weights.

Pricing scales with commodity coverage and seat count. There is no per-decision or per-fixing fee. We share the full quote in a 30-minute working session — book a demo and we'll walk through it together.

Yes — 30 days, full features, no contract. The trial includes the commodities you actively buy, the BOM you upload, and access for your committee. Cancel any time during the trial; nothing is charged unless you continue.

No. The 30-day trial requires only a working email and the commodities you want to cover. If you continue after the trial, we move to an annual subscription with EU data residency clauses and standard B2B terms.