Demand reaches rooms, tables and production separately
Service breaks at departmental hand-offs
Food cost moves without visibility
None of it is anybody's fault. Every workaround was added because it solved a real problem that day. The cost only shows up later — as "I thought someone else had done it."
Every module runs standalone beside your current ERP, accounting or industry software, or together as Enterprise One. Each module card shows exactly what it exchanges with your current system.
Vortex StayPulseGuest & Booking Module
Bookings come from five channels and overbookings are found at check-in.
What it does
•One booking view across direct, phone and online channels
•Room and table availability
•Guest preferences and history
•Pre-arrival messages on WhatsApp
Works with your existing systems *
Connects to your existing property system and channel manager through their available interfaces.
Vortex StayPulseKitchen & Production Module
Food cost is guessed, wastage is unrecorded, and every cook portions differently.
What it does
•Recipe costing and portion standards
•Production planning by forecast covers
•Wastage recording
•Kitchen order display
Works with your existing systems *
Orders from your restaurant POS; recipe costs use purchase rates from your accounts.
Vortex StayPulseSupply & Food Safety Module
Purchases are phoned in, and food safety records are filled in just before an inspection.
What it does
•Indents and purchase orders by outlet
•Receiving checks with temperature
•Batch and expiry control
•Food safety logs with time and photo
Works with your existing systems *
Purchases and receipts post to your accounting software.
Vortex StayPulseMulti-Site Margin Module
Each outlet reports differently, so the owner cannot compare margin like for like.
What it does
•Outlet-wise revenue, food cost and labour
•Same-format daily report
•Variance alerts
•Owner dashboard
Works with your existing systems *
Consolidates POS, accounting and payroll data from each outlet without replacing them.
Standard across every Vortex industry
Vortex SmartAI-Pulse core layer
Predictive analytics
Forecasts and early-warning signals from your own operating history.
Executive & KPI dashboards
Interactive views from company level down to a single order, truck or machine.
Workflow automation
Routine reports, alerts and hand-offs run on their own, on WhatsApp, email or screen.
Human-in-the-loop approvals
Anything that changes money, stock or a customer promise waits for a person to approve.
Disruption & exception handling
Rules watch every transaction and escalate by severity to the right owner.
Decision audit trail
Every recommendation, approval and override is recorded with who, when and why.
Where rules or optimisation give a reliable answer, we use them. AI is applied where it genuinely improves a decision, and never without a person accountable for the outcome.
Go deeper with SmartAI-Pulse
Decision Automation Service
Not sure which decisions are safe to automate, and which should always wait for a person.
We map every recurring decision in your operation, configure which ones your systems can make on their own, and which stay with a person — before a single automation goes live.
Stock piles up in one location while another runs short, and nobody can say why.
We work out where stock should actually sit, how many locations you need, and which routes are worth running — using your own sales and movement data, not assumptions.
We study the real workflows, the manual hand-offs and the priority risks before recommending any technology.
02 · Phase one
The first release solves your single most expensive problem and goes live in weeks, so you see value before committing further.
03 · Honest answer
If a process fix would serve you better than software, we will say so. We have said it before and walked away from the work.
Founder-led. Magesh Raman spent 22+ years in enterprise supply chain and operations at Ford, Timken and St John Freight before founding Vortex. We have run the operations we now digitise.
Questions we get asked
Start with a free Vortex Pulse Check
No charge, no obligation. We map one operating priority into a practical roadmap — and if the honest answer is that you are not ready for software yet, we will tell you.