Hire an AI weekly production and capacity planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A forecast by period, the method chosen and how far off it was on held-back months
• A list of the weeks and steps where demand beats what you can make, with ways to close each gap
• A week-by-week make plan, with near weeks fixed and far weeks open
• A monthly meeting agenda, the gaps to settle and an owner for each decision

How it does the job well

• Work from the real catalogue, prices, stock and policies. Check variants and currencies.
• Judge changes by contribution margin, not revenue alone.
• Change one thing at a time on a live store and keep a way to roll back.
• Keep product claims consistent with supplier data and labels.

Mistakes it avoids

• Editing live products, prices or themes without approval or a backup.
• Ignoring shipping, returns and fees when judging profit.
• Copying competitor listings.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You make, bake, sew or pack your own products and set the batch by feel.

• Step 1: Forecast. The sales pattern found, the method chosen, a forecast by period and how far off it was on held-back months.
• Step 2: Capacity check. Your capacity, the periods where demand beats it, the slowest step and ways to close each gap.
• Step 3: Weekly make plan. A quantity for each week with stock after, near weeks fixed and far weeks open.
• Step 4: Monthly meeting. An agenda with the gaps to settle, a decision and owner for each, and next month's rhythm.
• HAND-BACK SUMMARY. Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Forecast demand. Reads your sales history, picks a method to match the pattern, tests it on months it did not see and gives a forecast with its likely miss.
• Check what you can make. Sets your weekly capacity against the forecast and lists the periods and steps that run over, with options to close each gap.
• Build the weekly make plan. Takes the forecast, booked orders and stock on hand, and sets what to make each week without passing capacity.
• Run the monthly demand and supply meeting. Puts the forecast, make plan and gaps on one page and writes an agenda with a decision and an owner for each mismatch.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id plan-what-to-make-each-week-from-your-past-sales only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/plan-what-to-make-each-week-from-your-past-sales/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Past sales by product and by week or month, ideally two years
• What you can make in a week, in units, hours or people
• Stock on hand and orders already booked
• Who joins your monthly planning meeting (optional)

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: A plain chat is enough. A tool that runs code can build the forecast checks for you.

Functions and deliverables

• Weekly production and capacity planner: Share past sales and what you can make. Get a demand forecast, weekly work plan, capacity gaps and a review agenda.
  • A forecast by period, the method chosen and how far off it was on held-back months
  • A list of the weeks and steps where demand beats what you can make, with ways to close each gap
  • A week-by-week make plan, with near weeks fixed and far weeks open
  • A monthly meeting agenda, the gaps to settle and an owner for each decision
• Demand forecast planner: Share dated sales and the planning horizon. Compare forecasting methods, get projections and track errors against later actual demand.
  • Forecast for the horizon
  • Best-fit method and why
  • Accuracy comparison
  • Error tracking routine
  Source: Kishor Kukreja.
• Production capacity checker: Share demand and output limits. Get plant use, efficiency, and gaps.
  • Utilisation by resource
  • The named bottleneck
  • Gap between demand and capacity
  • Options to close the gap, compared by cost and timing
  Source: Kishor Kukreja.
• Production plan builder: Give it your sales forecast and capacity. Get a week-by-week plan of what to make and when.
  • A weekly production plan by product
  • Projected stock for each week
  • Available-to-promise quantities for new orders
  • A capacity check that lists overloaded work centres
  • A list of changes from last week's plan (if you gave it)
  Source: Kishor Kukreja.
• Monthly demand and supply meeting planner: Compare forecasts, stock, and supply limits to plan meetings, weigh gaps, and assign tasks.
  • A meeting agenda for the monthly cycle, with a time for each item
  • A gap list showing demand against capacity for each family and month
  • Options to close each gap, with costs only from your own numbers
  • Decisions to make, each with a named owner
  • Measures to track next month, and a list of what is missing
  Source: Kishor Kukreja.
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one

Tasks you can use it for

• You make, bake, sew or pack your own products and set the batch by feel.
• A busy season is coming and you want to know which weeks you cannot keep up.
• Sales, the shop floor and the money side each hold a different number and never meet.

Limits to check before starting

• You make to order and have no sales history: plan from your booked orders alone, in a simple spreadsheet.
• You want a price or minimum order quantity from a supplier: ask the supplier, or use the Factory price-break negotiator once you have your plan.
• You only need one number, such as next month's sales: ask your AI for a simple forecast and skip the four steps.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Paste your sales history first. Say if a past stockout or sale distorted a month, so the forecast does not copy it.
• Give your real weekly capacity. A guess here makes every plan after it wrong.
• Check the forecast and the gap list yourself before you act on the make plan.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/plan-what-to-make-each-week-from-your-past-sales for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.