# CIMARA Ask AI Canonical URL: https://frontierretailinc.com/ask-ai `/ai`, `/ask`, `/ask-dashboard`, and `/ask-frontier` redirect to `/ask-ai` and are not in the sitemap. Theme: Years of sales data, answered in plain English. Tagline: CIMARA Ask AI, “The Brain” of the CIMARA platform: AI dashboard & reports. CIMARA Ask AI is your personal business analyst, not a chatbot. CIMARA Ask AI works with CIMARA Core, and with NCR Counterpoint for shops still on it. CIMARA Ask AI updates overnight, so each morning you see results through yesterday. H1: Ask your store anything. CIMARA Ask AI is from Frontier Retail, Inc. Type a question in plain English, or say it. The answer comes back as a columned report with subtotals and a grand total, and CIMARA Ask AI reads it aloud. The spoken-answer device line and the history-reach line are withheld until Kevin confirms them. ## Advanced Dashboard & Reporting option The Advanced Dashboard & Reporting option is on when the license includes it. It is the foundation for the full integration of CIMARA Ask AI into CIMARA Core. Today it is the gated dashboard, headlined by Suggested Stock Reallocation and Purchasing Recommendations, plus open-to-buy replenishment, promo suggestions, margin and gold AI reports, saved reruns, and exports. Suggested Stock Reallocation (smart location reallocation) and Purchasing Recommendations (smart buying) read sales velocity, on-hand, open-to-buy, and margin across every location, and explain the reasoning behind every suggestion. Both work today. Open-to-buy replenishment shows what to bring in. It does not rebuild open-to-buy, and it does not place the order or change the price. Those reports do not write the purchase order, the transfer, or the markdown. That writer is CIMARA, not a Counterpoint writer. Suggested Stock Reallocation and Purchasing Recommendations are where Ask becomes a business resource: that same intelligence feeds CIMARA Core when it creates the purchase order and the stock transfer. Coming soon to CIMARA Core: the same CIMARA Ask AI, built right into your daily workflows. Its merchandise recommendations become ready-to-review purchase orders, transfers and markdowns with no manual entry, saving untold hours of tedious data analysis so you can make informed decisions with the reasoning to back them up. Export any answer to Excel, PDF, or CSV, or print it. Excel, PDF, and print include money-column totals and a record count. Save a report and rerun it on the latest data at no extra cost. Saved reports follow you across devices. Dashboard views, from the existing dashboard page: - Current: open tickets, orders, and layaways from live CIMARA documents. Example: What's on hold or on layaway right now? - History: monthly sales, on-hand, GMROI, turn, and weeks of supply by class, store, and vendor. - Matrix: color, size, and width by vendor and class, with weeks left in the season. - Edge: clerks, peak hour, best days, weather at the store ZIP, and buy-more / buy-less. Example: What should I buy more of? Past days remains a dashboard capture: posted tickets for the last 6 months, by item, department, vendor, and customer. Seasonal questions on the page are illustrative: what sold best last July and whether enough is on order; which days were busiest last season; how the beach store did against downtown this summer; what summer carryover to mark down before the off-season. The page shows the public demo login and a blue “Open the dashboard demo” link to https://ask.frontierretailedge.io/. One demo block. See pricing: https://license.frontierretailedge.io/buy.html#ask-dashboard. This page does not list a price, including in the title, meta description, Open Graph tags, Twitter card, or JSON-LD. Share image: /videos/ask-ai/ask-ai-phone-v4-poster.jpg Inventory numbers you can ask for by name: inventory turns, sell-through, GMROI, days of supply, on-hand value, dead or slow stock, and stock-to-sales. Every answer carries a Read as line. A usage meter and a per-shop on/off switch are on the page. Our team reviews questions CIMARA Ask AI couldn't answer and adds answers. A third-party AI service answers questions and sees totals, not raw sales rows. The AI never sees your sales rows. Your data isn't used to train AI models. The provider is not named. Film: shop owners at a gift-shop counter ask a phone in plain English and get a chart back. The film features Suggested Stock Reallocation and Purchasing Recommendations, with the reasoning behind every suggestion, and says CIMARA Ask AI is your personal business analyst, not a chatbot. CIMARA Ask AI works today, on the sales you already keep. Closing spoken line: Call Frontier Retail for more information about the CIMARA platform of retail solutions. (843) 277-8555, Mon–Fri 8 AM–5 PM ET. CIMARA is pronounced si-Mara. Duration PT65.6S. Files: /videos/ask-ai/ask-ai-phone-v4.mp4, /videos/ask-ai/ask-ai-phone-v4.webm, poster /videos/ask-ai/ask-ai-phone-v4-poster.jpg, captions /videos/ask-ai/ask-ai-phone-v4-captions.vtt. Figures shown are example data. Call (843) 277-8555, Mon–Fri 8 AM–5 PM ET. ## Questions Which systems does it work with? CIMARA Ask AI works with CIMARA Core, and with NCR Counterpoint for shops still on it. What does it cost? See pricing. This page does not list a price. How accurate is it? CIMARA Ask AI answers from the totals in your sales data. Each answer shows its source and date window. Check that window before you act on a number. How long is setup? Setup depends on the system you already run. Book a demo and we will walk through what your shop needs. Is my data safe? A third-party AI service answers your questions. It sees totals, not raw sales rows. Your data isn't used to train AI models. Read the CIMARA Ask AI section of the privacy policy: /privacy#ask-ai. The page still shows the public demo login and a blue “Open the dashboard demo” link. That login is not the FAQ. Kevin Bowden, founder of CIMARA (Frontier Retail, Inc.), started out building software for CPAs and has spent 45 years working with retail business software and integrations. CIMARA is built from years of retail technology experience for specialty retail customers. We listen to retailers first and help them get the most from their technology. Kevin is supported by a brilliant and experienced team of architects, engineers and quality control specialists creating the next generation of retail platform, one that truly leverages intelligence to improve success and create meaningful efficiency. Job title: Founder. MIT Professional Education credentials in Artificial Intelligence. Calls and support: (843) 277-8555. One number for sales and support; an auto attendant routes your call. Mon–Fri 8 AM–5 PM ET. Need coverage outside these hours? After-hours emergency support contracts are available. Contact for more info: /contact or (843) 277-8555. C&K Systems, Inc. is our Authorized Preferred Installation Partner. Seller: Frontier Retail, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in the Charleston, South Carolina area. The storefront still sells exactly three products.