Aera Decision Cloud

Aera Technology is a decision intelligence software company based in Mountain View, California, co-founded by Frederic Laluyaux (CEO) and Shariq Mansoor (CTO). It addresses the gap between the volume of enterprise data and the speed at which people can act on it, by automating and augmenting operational decisions in supply chain, procurement, sales, finance and other functions.

Aera Decision Cloud continuously crawls enterprise systems, builds a Decision Data Model, and orchestrates deterministic analytics, machine learning, graph engines and LLM-based reasoning. Prebuilt Aera Skills for supply chain cover touchless demand forecasting, short-term demand sensing, mid-term planning, lifecycle forecasting, inventory, orders, logistics, control tower and master data. Each skill understands, recommends, acts and learns from outcomes. Customers include Castrol.

• Decision Data Model: crawls, refines and indexes data from enterprise systems.
• Multi-engine orchestration: deterministic, ML, graph and LLM engines combined.
• Demand skills: touchless forecasting, demand sensing, mid-term planning and new product forecasts.
• Inventory, order and logistics skills: rebalancing, order management and logistics orchestration.
• Control tower: real-time visibility with proactive alerts.
• Dynamic engagement: inbox, chat, voice, mobile app or API access by role.

• A lubricant or chemicals distributor in Vietnam can automate demand forecasts and stock transfers between depots.
• A consumer goods company can manage SKU transitions and new product launches.
• A manufacturer can use the control tower to act on order and logistics exceptions.

• Touchless forecasting automatically generates and updates demand plans, reducing planner effort.
• Recommendations such as inventory transfers quantify working capital impact before action.
• Repetitive decisions run on cost-efficient deterministic logic, while LLM reasoning is reserved for complex cases.
• A decision ledger records every decision to refine policies over time.

Decision intelligence is emerging as a distinct software category as enterprises move from AI pilots to governed, autonomous decisions. Consumer goods and industrial groups operating in Southeast Asia are applying it to demand sensing and inventory rebalancing across markets.

Co-founded by Frederic Laluyaux and Shariq Mansoor; based in Mountain View, California. Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms and, for the second time, in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms 2026. Hosts the annual AeraHUB summit in New York.