Duvo

“UK retail margins are incredibly thin at usually around 1–3%. Every CFO has a number to hit. Duvo is the rare answer that takes cost out without breaking the operation.”

“I’ve backed Duvo because the founding team understands retail operations from the inside. That’s why it goes live in days instead of months and survives the messy reality of retail and CPG operations.”

“Duvo automated our supplier-term negotiations, making them seamless and auditable. We saved a month in annual processes, and freed our team for strategic tasks. The impact on our operations is profound.”

“We were running promo nominations based on gut feel and deeply flawed forecasts, using discounts primarily to clear stock. Duvo changed the game by running the full cycle daily. By balancing margin, depth, and actual inventory across all fulfilment centres, we lifted our promo margin by 10 points and tripled revenue without cutting deeper.”

“Duvo gives our teams supplier-ready briefings and catches exceptions before they become disputes, so people can focus on negotiations instead of manual data handling.”

“It was data-backed information, not just gut feeling. Which made us immediately ready to act on it.”

“With Duvo's FloQast Variance Report Agent, variance reports simply show up where we need them. We've eliminated manual downloading, cut errors to almost zero, and shortened our month-end close by about 10%.”

“Our planners used to spend 30 hours a week trapped in spreadsheets, running gut-feel forecasts that often led to simultaneous overstocks and stockouts. Now that Duvo runs daily forecasting from primary signals and automatically places the orders, we've eliminated quarterly disaster weeks and returned nearly four FTEs of capacity to long-horizon demand planning.”

“Every shortage signal now gets confirmed or resolved before cut-off, around the clock and across all five markets. Nothing slips through anymore.”

“Fresh decisions no longer wait for the morning. Every expiry alert is settled against the supplier contract the same day, and the margin stays with us.”

“Our commercial team used to spend weeks chasing master data and fixing order templates before a product could even go live. With Duvo validating products and sizing first orders automatically, we've compressed launch cycles from two months down to a single week, capturing revenue that was previously lost to admin delays.”

“Every unhappy customer now hears back within a day, in our voice and on every platform. We used to lose them in silence.”

“The end-to-end flow works brilliantly. What used to take a full day of copy-pasting and formatting now runs in minutes with zero corrections. Our specialists finally have time for the work that actually moves performance.”

“Before Duvo, transfer price logging was a daily copy-paste marathon across multiple tools. Now the records post automatically, errors have dropped, and we've reclaimed roughly 20% of the team's time for higher-value work.”

“Without this, that's €1M of goods inbounded that aren't physically here.”

“We did consider fixing the ordering process inside our internal tools, but IT simply didn't have the capacity to take it on. Duvo gave us a practical shortcut: it validates our proposed supplier orders, calculates a better option, and sends improvements to Slack for approval. Once we approve, Duvo executes the change directly in our internal system through the UI. That's how we moved A+B availability by 15% in two weeks, without rebuilding forecasting or waiting for APIs.”