Continuous accuracy through risk-weighted cycle counting — without the cost of RFID or the blind spots of counting by calendar.
Annual stock-takes are expensive, disruptive, and out of date the day after they finish. Manual counts drift. Shrinkage hides in the gap. There's a better rhythm.
You pay an external team, close down to count everything at once, and the figure is stale within days. The rest of the year, you're guessing.
A small, risk-weighted count each week keeps accuracy live all year — staff do it in the gaps of a normal shift, no shutdown required.
Paper sheets, discretion over what gets checked, and errors noted but rarely resolved. Discrepancies vanish into the next count.
The app dictates what to count by risk, forces every discrepancy to be resolved, and seals each session — so the numbers can be trusted.
Estiba picks each week's count by risk — weighting high-value and fast-moving stock automatically. No one has to decide what matters.
Operators count the week's items with any barcode scanner. Anything that can't be resolved on the spot is held safely, not lost.
Every discrepancy is resolved before a session closes, then signed and sealed — giving you an accuracy figure and a shrinkage cost you can act on.
When a single missing piece is real money, accuracy isn't admin — it's margin. Estiba replaces costly external counts with a continuous figure you can defend.
Across dozens of stores, no one can keep accuracy by hand. Estiba makes it systematic — the same disciplined count, running everywhere, without RFID.
Inventory tools are only worth anything if the figures are honest. Estiba is built so the number on the screen is one you'd defend to your CFO — measured, not guessed.
The count concentrates where the money and the movement are, so the same effort tells you more.
A session can't close with units unaccounted for. Every gap is found or formally recorded.
Shrinkage at cost and lost sales at retail, kept separate — no inflated single number.
Estiba runs on the barcodes already on your stock and the phones or scanners your team already carries. Roll it out across every store without buying a single new piece of hardware.
I have worked in very different worlds — writing, finance, retail operations — and in each of them the same conviction: to understand something is to be committed to it, to contribute more than what is expected.
Retail operations is where that conviction is now concentrated. In apparel retail, I watched capable people work with tools designed without them in mind — counting by hand, wrestling with systems that put their competence at risk. Not because they lacked skill, but because the tools failed them, and the failure carried their name.
That need comes before every other consideration. Solve it, and the business improves — but so do the working lives of the people inside it. There is a satisfaction beyond the economics: seeing what people can do when the tool respects them. It opens possibilities that did not exist before.
I could have built a simple counting app. Estiba is deliberately more: a discipline, a way of running an operation, a system that respects the people who use it and reveals what a business is truly capable of. Counting is where it begins. It is not where it ends.
I built Estiba because I needed to believe this could be done — and then do it. Estiba is that belief, made into a working discipline.
We'll set a baseline, run a focused quarter, and show you the accuracy and shrinkage figures in your own stock. If it doesn't prove its worth, you've lost nothing.
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