AI Connector — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Cursor

Turn spreadsheets into accurate AI forecasts on the fly

Your conversational time-series forecasting partner. Drop Excel workbooks or CSV files into your everyday AI chat client and get instant, foundation-model forecasts with confidence bands and interactive charts.

Chat with Forecast Coach through ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, Gemini, or Cursor in English or your preferred language.

Typical forecast: "Based on 18 months of retail sales, Q4 holiday demand is projected at 14,200 units (+18% YoY) with an 80% confidence interval of [13,100, 15,400]."

Traditional LLMs hallucinate numbers or draw naive linear lines. Forecast Coach runs real time-series foundation models in milliseconds.

Zero Code
No Data Science Needed
Simply upload your Excel sheet
< 100ms
In-Process Inference
Chronos, Prophet & NeuralProphet
P10 — P90
Uncertainty Bands
Know downside risk & upside potential
Enterprise
Private Deployment
SAP, Oracle & Postgres on your network

The One-Stop Shop to Leap into Modern Forecasting

Stop wrestling with complex Python scripts or misleading linear trendlines. Forecast Coach brings the power of state-of-the-art predictive AI directly into your business discussions.

Foundation Time-Series AI

Runs Amazon Chronos-Bolt in-process. Get pre-trained zero-shot forecasting trained on billions of time points for superior accuracy on unseen data.

Excel & CSV Native

Attach your weekly sales, monthly revenue, or daily inventory spreadsheet. Your AI chat client extracts the series and Forecast Coach models it instantly.

Interactive Chart & Backtest Widget

Renders dynamic visual charts directly within your chat. Switch algorithms on the fly and run live rolling-origin backtests directly in the widget.

Rigorous Uncertainty & Risk

Never make critical decisions based on single-point guesses. Every forecast provides calibrated confidence intervals (P10 to P90) to plan inventory and budgets safely.

Conversational What-If Analysis

Ask questions like "What if growth slows by 10%?" or "How does seasonality affect August?". Get instant updated forecasts and strategic commentary.

Multi-Lingual Collaboration

Communicate naturally in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, or any language your AI assistant speaks.

Algorithm Suite & Ensembles

Diverse Models Tailored to Every Use Case

No single forecasting model fits every business scenario. Forecast Coach runs a comprehensive multi-algorithm suite in-process — switch models on the fly in the widget or evaluate them side-by-side with automated backtesting.

Chronos-Bolt Foundation Model

Live

Lightning-fast deep time series foundation model. Excels at zero-shot forecasting, complex nonlinear trends, and zero-configuration predictions without fine-tuning.

Meta Prophet

Live

Additive and piecewise linear trend model with L-BFGS optimization. Ideal for business series with strong weekly/yearly seasonality and calendar holiday shocks.

NeuralProphet Hybrid

Live

Combines Prophet interpretable trend and Fourier harmonics with autoregressive neural networks. Native pure-Rust in-process execution with standard and 28-day lag support.

Consensus Ensemble & Backtesting

Live

Blends candidate models via median ensembling and evaluates accuracy across rolling-origin holdouts using MASE against Seasonal Naive 7, recommending the optimal model for your data.

Connect Directly to Your Data Sources

From simple spreadsheets today to native enterprise integrations and e-commerce APIs tomorrow.

Live

Excel Workbooks (.xlsx) & CSV

Drag and drop any spreadsheet directly into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Automatically parses dates, values, and multi-series columns.

In Roadmap

Amazon Seller Central API

Direct connector to sync Amazon FBA sales history, inventory levels, and order velocity for automated restocking forecasts.

In Roadmap

Shopify API

One-click connection to pull store transactions, customer order frequency, and product-level demand projections.

Private Deployment

Enterprise Internal Databases

Connect natively to SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and BigQuery behind your corporate firewall.

Private Deployment & Enterprise

Run Forecast Coach in Your Own Cloud Account

The private edition deploys into your AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account in minutes, licensed offline and stateless by design. Enterprise teams add what they need on request.

Your Own Cloud Account

Your administrator deploys Forecast Coach into your AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account from a console link or one command. Nothing to build, no access to our source, nothing run by us.

Licensed Offline by a Signed Key

A signed activation key is verified inside your deployment, with no call home. Renewals mint a new key automatically and a grace period covers the handover.

Your Data Stays in Your Account

The server is stateless: your series are processed in memory and never stored. Logs stay in your own cloud, with no payload data.

Enterprise Extras on Request

Corporate SSO, network isolation, ERP and data-warehouse connectors, larger model checkpoints and SLAs, scoped with you.

Need more than the private edition?

Tell us about your environment. We scope corporate SSO, network isolation, internal connectors and SLA support around a deployment in your own account.

Contact Enterprise Team

See Forecast Coach in Action

Works seamlessly inside your AI chat interface — right where your team already works.

Interactive Forecast Chart Widget

Interactive Forecast Chart Widget

Dynamic SVG chart rendered directly in the chat with historical trends, forecasted trajectory, and calibrated P10-P90 prediction bands.

Instant Spreadsheet Ingestion

Instant Spreadsheet Ingestion

Drop an Excel workbook into ChatGPT or Claude and ask for demand forecasts by department, region, or SKU.

Strategic Business Coaching Notes

Strategic Business Coaching Notes

Conversational commentary breaking down trend inflection points, seasonality indicators, and actionable replenishment milestones.

Hands-On Test Pack

Excel Demo Pack & Interactive Scenarios

Download our pre-built workbook with 8 synthetic scenarios, verified date cadences, and copyable prompts to test Forecast Coach instantly in Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or Cursor.

All series are deterministic synthetic values (seed 9182026). No real business or customer data.

Test Forecast Coach in 3 Simple Steps

01

Download the Workbook

Grab Forecast_Coach_Demo.xlsx directly — no sign-up or credit card required.

02

Upload to Your AI Chat

Attach the workbook to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Cursor with Forecast Coach installed.

03

Copy & Paste Any Prompt

Click Copy on any scenario below and send it. Forecast Coach will render interactive charts and empirical confidence intervals.

8 Ready-to-Run Business Scenarios

Each tab demonstrates a specific real-world forecasting problem: growth trends, stockouts, sparse operating days, multi-SKU selection, a quarter-ahead (90-day) horizon, and a holiday quarter planned with declared holidays and closed days.

Daily_Retail
182 rows • D (Daily)

Daily Retail Demand

14 days

Start here: 182 daily rows with steady growth, weekly shopping cycles, and realistic variance.

@Forecast Coach Use the Daily_Retail worksheet in the uploaded workbook. Use Date as ds and Units_Sold as y, including all 182 data rows. Forecast the next 14 days after the last observation with freq="D". Show the forecast widget and summarize the outlook. Report the empirical band coverage and its basis returned by the tool; do not assume a nominal coverage.

Stockouts_Zeros
182 rows • D (Daily)

Stockouts vs. Genuine Zeros

14 days

Learn how missingness works. 7 stockout days remain blank (null), while 2 true zero-sale days remain numeric 0.

@Forecast Coach Use Stockouts_Zeros. Use Date as ds and Units_Sold as y; use Observation_Status only to interpret missingness. Keep every date. Send blank values for stockout or missing_report as null and retain both observed_zero values as numeric 0. Forecast 14 days after the final row with freq="D". Show the forecast widget and report the measured band coverage and basis.

Open_MWF
182 rows • D (Daily)

Opening-Calendar / Sparse Grid

14 days

A market stall open only Mon/Wed/Fri (105 blank closures). Demonstrates sparse daily grids without dropping dates.

@Forecast Coach Use Open_MWF, with Date as ds and Units_Sold as y. The stall opens only Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Keep every calendar date and send blank cells as null; preserve the genuine observed_zero as 0. Forecast the next 14 calendar days with freq="D". Show the raw plugin result and explain that predictions on closed dates are not applicable. Do not assume the model has a future opening-calendar feature. Report any missing-data or model-limit warnings.

Weekly_Orders
104 rows • W (Weekly)

Weekly Wholesale Orders

8 weeks

104 weekly Sunday week-ending labels spaced exactly 7 days apart. Models 2-year trend and annual seasonality.

@Forecast Coach Use Weekly_Orders, with Date as ds and Orders as y. Dates are Sunday week-ending labels exactly seven days apart. Forecast the next 8 weeks after the last row with freq="W". Do not relabel the data as daily. Show the forecast widget, describe the outlook, and report the empirical band coverage and its basis.

Monthly_Revenue
60 rows • MS (Month Start)

Monthly SaaS Revenue

6 months

5 years of monthly revenue labeled on month starts (MS). Highlights year-end Q4 renewals and macro trajectory.

@Forecast Coach Use Monthly_Revenue, with Date as ds and Revenue_USD as y. Each date is the first day of the month represented by that monthly revenue. Forecast the next 6 months after the last observed month with freq="MS". The first forecast label should be 2026-09-01. Show the forecast widget and report the measured band coverage and its basis.

Multi_SKU
182 rows • D (Daily)

Multi-SKU Target Selection

14 days

3 products on one calendar: growing (Blue), stable (Red), and declining (Bundle). Tests single-series isolation.

@Forecast Coach Use Multi_SKU and forecast only SKU_1041_Blue_Units using Date as ds. Do not use SKU_1042_Red_Units, SKU_2200_Bundle_Units, or a combined total. Forecast the next 14 days with freq="D" and show the forecast widget. Report the empirical band coverage and its basis.

Cafe_Year
365 rows • D (Daily)

A Quarter Ahead from a Year of Daily Sales

90 days

A full year of daily café sales (365 rows): weekly rhythm, gentle growth and a few quiet holidays. Forecast a whole quarter, 90 days, in one call.

@Forecast Coach Use the Cafe_Year worksheet in the uploaded workbook. Use Date as ds and Cups_Sold as y, including all 365 data rows. Forecast the next 90 days (about three months, 2026-09-18 to 2026-12-16) with freq="D", horizon=90. Show the forecast widget and summarize the quarter ahead month by month. Report the empirical band coverage and its basis returned by the tool; do not assume a nominal coverage.

Holiday_Quarter
731 rows • D (Daily)

Plan the Holiday Quarter

92 days

Two years of daily gift-shop sales (731 rows) with a yearly rhythm, Halloween, Black Friday, a Christmas rush and closed days. Two years is the minimum for Prophet to learn a yearly pattern, which the one-year Cafe_Year cannot show. Declare the holidays and forecast the whole quarter, 92 days, with Prophet.

@Forecast Coach Use the Holiday_Quarter worksheet in the uploaded workbook. Use Date as ds and Units_Sold as y, including all 731 data rows from 2024-09-30 to 2026-09-30, and send the four blank closed-day cells as null. Forecast the holiday quarter, 2026-10-01 to 2026-12-31, with algorithm="prophet", freq="D", horizon=92; holidays are fitted only by Prophet. From the holiday table in E1:K9, send every open row as one holidays entry {name: Holiday, dates: [Past_Date_1, Past_Date_2, Future_Date], lower_window, upper_window}, and put all three dates of every closed row in closed_dates. Show the forecast widget and summarize October, November and December, pointing out Halloween, Black Friday, the Christmas rush and the closed days. Explain in one plain sentence that Prophet learns a yearly pattern only from at least two full years of history: this sheet has two, while the one-year Cafe_Year sheet is too short for one. Report each holiday effect the tool returns, and the empirical band coverage and its basis; do not assume a nominal coverage.

Deliberate Guardrail Tests

Forecast Coach enforces strict data hygiene. Test these two edge cases to see responsible AI guardrails in action.

Target-Selection Guardrail

Clarification Prompt (No Guessing)

Asks to forecast Multi_SKU without naming a column. The assistant should ask which SKU to forecast rather than silently guessing.

@Forecast Coach Use the Multi_SKU worksheet to forecast the next 14 days.

Cadence Guardrail

Refusal / Cadence Warning

Sends weekly Sunday dates with freq="D". The model must decline the mismatch rather than silently resampling dates.

@Forecast Coach Use Weekly_Orders, Date as ds and Orders as y. Send the dates unchanged and request a forecast with freq="D", horizon=14.

Input Contract & Best Practices

Essential rules from the START_HERE guide to guarantee high forecast fidelity across all platforms.

✓

Actual Blanks vs. Zeros

Empty value cells serialize as null. Never drop their dates, write the text "null", or replace stockouts with 0. Numeric 0 means an actual zero observation.

✓

One Regular Grid Per Call

Use every row in order. Daily includes weekends; weekly is exactly 7 days apart; monthly uses month starts. No future placeholder rows.

✓

Choose One Explicit Target

Forecast Coach processes one (ds, y) series per call. When multiple product columns exist, select one explicitly or request a summed total.

✓

Read Empirical Coverage Basis

Always inspect the returned empirical band.coverage and band.basis (e.g. 80.3% measured on historical e-commerce), rather than assuming nominal 80%.

Want deeper technical details? Visit our interactive documentation.
Download Demo Pack (.xlsx)
Claude Desktop & Web

Add Forecast Coach to Claude

Forecast Coach is published in the Claude connector directory, so it connects in one click from claude.ai or Claude Desktop, and the interactive forecast widget renders right inside your conversation.

1

Open the directory listing

Open Forecast Coach in the Claude connector directory, and sign in to Claude if asked.

2

Click "Connect for your team"

Or open the arrow beside it for the other connect options. Forecast Coach is free and needs no API key or extra sign-in. Once connected, it is available in both claude.ai and Claude Desktop.

3

Start forecasting

Attach any Excel workbook (.xlsx) or CSV file and ask: "Forecast our sales for the next 4 quarters".

Prefer to add it by URL? Use a custom connector instead

In claude.ai or Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors, click +, choose Add custom connector, name it Forecast Coach, paste the URL below and click Add.

Remote MCP Server URL

https://forecast-coach.us-west.pmcp.run/mcp
Claude Desktop Connectors page showing Add custom connector
Click + and select Add custom connector.
Claude Desktop Add Custom Connector dialog
Name it Forecast Coach, paste the server URL, and click Add.

Open Claude Connectors settings

ChatGPT & GPT-4o

Install in ChatGPT

Forecast Coach connects to ChatGPT as a custom MCP connector. Enable Developer Mode in your settings to install in less than a minute.

1

Open Connector Settings

Go to chatgpt.com/gpts/mine → Settings → Connectors, open Advanced Settings, and enable Developer Mode.

2

Create App / Connector

Click "Create app" to add a custom MCP connector. ChatGPT will ask for a name and server endpoint.

3

Enter Forecast Coach URL

Name: Forecast Coach. Paste the remote MCP server URL shown below into the Remote MCP server URL field, then click Save.

4

Drop spreadsheet & forecast

Upload any CSV or Excel file and ask: "Forecast demand for the next 30 days and show the prediction chart."

Remote MCP Server URL

https://forecast-coach.us-west.pmcp.run/mcp

Other MCP Clients & Editors

Connect Forecast Coach directly from Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible environment.

Cursor Setup

  1. 1Click the button below for one-click installation, or paste the config block into ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
Install in Cursor

Or copy the JSON block below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forecast-coach": {
      "url": "https://forecast-coach.us-west.pmcp.run/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Start Asking Real Business Questions

Ask anything about your time series in natural language. Here are examples business teams use daily:

Sales & Revenue

“Here is our monthly revenue spreadsheet for the last 2 years. Forecast Q3 and Q4.”

Predicts upcoming revenue trends with seasonality and upper/lower bounds for budget reconciliation.

RevenueQuarterly Planning
Retail & Inventory

“Predict weekly unit demand for our top 5 SKUs through the holiday shopping peak.”

Generates SKU-level replenishment forecasts to prevent stockouts while minimizing holding costs.

Supply ChainE-Commerce
Event Attendance

“Based on early ticket sales registration curve, will we exceed our 5,000 attendee hall capacity?”

Models cumulative event registrations against venue caps to trigger overflow logistics.

EventsCapacity Planning
Infrastructure & Web Traffic

“Forecast server API requests for the next 30 days and flag potential traffic spikes.”

Projects daily server loads with confidence intervals to size cloud infrastructure proactively.

OperationsDevOps
What-If Scenarios

“If summer demand accelerates by 15% due to our new ad campaign, how will inventory hold up?”

Applies scenario adjustments to baseline forecasts to evaluate marketing ROI and stock buffers.

What-IfMarketing
Model Backtesting

“How accurately would the model have predicted last quarter using historical data up to December?”

Performs historical walk-forward backtesting to prove accuracy before betting operational budgets.

AccuracyBacktesting

Simple, Transparent Editions

Start free in your chat today, or deploy the private edition into your own cloud account in minutes.

Public Cloud Connector

Community Server

$0/ Free forever

Ideal for individuals, business managers, analysts, and teams using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Cursor.

No registration or login required (100% anonymous)
8 SOTA forecast models (Chronos-Bolt, Prophet, NeuralProphet, Ensembles)
Strictly stateless execution (zero data stored, no DB or disk writes)
Excel workbook (.xlsx) and CSV spreadsheet intake via chat
Interactive in-chat SVG chart widget with algorithm switcher & backtest table
P10 to P90 uncertainty confidence bands
Standard community support
Install Free Connector
Recommended for Teams
Private Cloud Deployment

Business Server

$249/ per month

Your own Forecast Coach in your own AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account. Your administrator deploys it from a console link or one command, and your data never leaves your account.

Runs in your own AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account
Deployed by your administrator from a console link or one command: nothing to build, no access to our source, nothing run by us
Serving in about a minute on AWS, under a minute on Google Cloud, a few minutes on Azure
Licensed by a signed activation key verified inside your deployment: works offline, renews automatically, with a grace period
Stateless and in memory: your series are never stored; logs stay in your account with no payload data
The same eight models as Community; a larger Chronos-Bolt checkpoint as a backtest option is coming
Standard email & business-hours support
Deploy Business Server
Dedicated AWS & ERP Connectors

Enterprise Server

Pay-for-usage/ Tailored enterprise licensing

Dedicated deployment on a dedicated AWS account with auxiliary MCP servers for direct ERP and data warehouse integration.

Private deployment on a dedicated AWS account (or customer VPC)
Additional MCP servers: SAP ERP, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
Corporate SSO, fine-grained IAM & role-based access control (RBAC)
Custom fine-tuned forecasting algorithms & larger model checkpoints
Strictly stateless execution with air-gapped / PrivateLink options
Dedicated SLA and enterprise engineering onboarding support
Request Enterprise Demo

Detailed Edition Comparison

Compare architecture, security, models, and integration capabilities across all three deployment tiers.

Dimension / Feature
Community Server
Business Server
Enterprise Server
Target AudienceIndividual planners, analysts, proof-of-concept testingBusiness units & growing companies needing private infrastructureLarge enterprises requiring compliance, ERP integration & custom SLAs
Pricing & LicensingFree ($0)$249 / monthPay-for-usage (Tailored enterprise licensing)
Licensing & renewalNone requiredActivation key from your subscription page; renewals mint a new key automatically, with a grace period after the paid periodTailored
Hosting EnvironmentPublic multi-tenant serverless cloud (pmcp.run)Your own AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account, deployed by your administrator from a console link or one commandDedicated AWS account (or customer VPC)
Time to deployInstall the connector in your chat in under two minutesAbout a minute on AWS, under a minute on Google Cloud, a few minutes on AzureScoped engagement
Authentication & AccessNo login / Anonymous (Zero credentials or sign-up)Public HTTPS endpoint gated by your signed activation key; no accounts to manage (corporate single sign-on: Enterprise)Corporate SSO & OAuth 2.0 + fine-grained IAM & RBAC policies
Data Retention & StateStateless (Zero data stored, no DB/disk)Stateless (series processed in memory, never stored; everything stays in your account)Stateless (Zero data stored, air-gapped options available)
Forecasting Engine8 SOTA models (Chronos-Bolt, NeuralProphet, Prophet, Ensembles, Baselines)The same 8 models as Community; a larger Chronos-Bolt checkpoint as a backtest option (coming)Custom & fine-tuned models (Larger Chronos checkpoints, industry-tailored weights)
Data Intake & IntegrationExcel (.xlsx) & CSV file upload via chatExcel (.xlsx) & CSV file upload via chatAdditional MCP servers for direct ERP/DB integration (SAP, Oracle, Snowflake, Postgres)
Network IsolationPublic HTTPS endpointPublic, licence-gated HTTPS endpoint in your own account; your data stays in your cloud (network restriction: Enterprise)Dedicated cloud account, VPC peering, PrivateLink support
Audit & LoggingStandard test-asserted latency/status logs (no payload data)Logs in your own account (CloudWatch, Cloud Logging or Container Apps), no payload dataFull enterprise audit logging, SIEM integration, dedicated compliance reporting
Support & SLACommunity supportStandard email & business-hours supportDedicated SLA, enterprise engineering onboarding & architecture support
Stateless Guarantee: Every edition runs stateless. Your time series are processed in memory and never stored, cached or retained, whether on our servers or in your own deployment.