SawaOS roadmap · the conversation, not the calendar

Coming Next

SawaOS isn't a roadmap your AE drips out at QBR. It's what our customers ask for, in the order they ask for it. Three lanes, building now, next quarter, and the wishlist.

Building now

ships Q2 2026

Demand forecast

14-day forward cover prediction. The system already knows your Saturday is 420 and your Tuesday is 180. Soon it'll predict next week from weather, day-of-week, and special-event calendar, and pre-fill the prep board.

▸14-day rolling forecast grid
▸DOW pattern + weather + holiday calendar
▸Auto-suggest prep batch sizes
▸Manager confirms or overrides

Phase 3 of the Trojan-horse rollout, the data we've already been collecting from receiving + prep board now talks back.

Next quarter

Q3 2026

Snap-invoice + AI scaling

Two beta features going wide. Take a photo of the Liberty invoice → lines auto-extracted. Ask the kitchen chat to scale goulash for 50 covers → recipe re-rendered.

▸Snap-photo invoice OCR (no typing receiving)
▸AI recipe scaling chat ("scale goulash 1.5x")
▸Owner's Daily Brief, 7am email summary
▸Bluetooth scale for weight-based inventory

The invite-only betas are running with 4 customers including Sawa's. Public release Q3.

On request

your call

The wishlist

These ship when a customer asks for them. We've scoped each one and are waiting on a real conversation to start building. Pick any to talk through.

◇Catering channel split (vs dine-in P&L)
◇Vendor bill-pay rails (ACH from journal)
◇Influencer attribution dashboard
◇Online-ordering + Toast import
◇Gift card + loyalty ledger
◇Multi-location rollup

Bring one. We'll show you the wireframe and ballpark the build in real time.

What this week's analysis told us

Catering isolation

Catering is invisible, but the fix is one column.

QBO Invoices module unused (0 rows). No customer master tagging. 0 GL memos with "catering". Recommendation: use the existing journal.MiscIncome field going forward, OR add a CateringSales column. Both are 1-day builds, your call which.

Growth attribution

The TikTok effect is real, sustained, and started August.

Saturday food sales: pre-Aug avg $7,184 / 290 covers → post-Aug avg $10,500 / 400 covers. Volume up, ticket flat, pure new-customer acquisition. Next: an attribution overlay that marks each TikTok post date on the revenue chart so you can plan visit #3.

How we decide what ships

1. You ask for it.

In the weekly call, or in the Coming Next inbox right here in the app. Every customer ask gets a card in the queue.

2. Two more customers ask for the same thing.

When 3 independent restaurants want a feature, it moves from "On request" to "Next quarter." We build it as part of the platform, not a one-off.

3. It ships to everyone.

Once it's in the platform, every SawaOS customer gets it. The feature you asked for becomes the feature your peer down the street uses next month.

Pick one. Talk through it. We'll quote the build live.

Bring your roadmap to the 15-min discovery.

Tell us the kitchen pain you'd start with. We'll show the screen, walk the rollout, and ballpark the lift on your P&L before you hang up.

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