One system replaced spreadsheets, vendor emails, and nightly exports — and now runs three stores.

Three retail locations and a growing Shopify storefront ran on spreadsheets, vendor emails, and nightly exports. Inventory truth lagged a day behind the floor, profit was a month-end guess, and payroll meant rebuilding the same sheet every week. Nothing showed what actually needed attention today.

We designed and built Command Center — a private operations platform shaped around how Common Hype actually runs, not a template the business had to bend to. Receiving, counts, purchasing, Shopify orders, profit, scheduling, payroll, and commission moved into one system, with QuickBooks, Shippo, and Discord wired in and an AI layer that answers plain-English questions against live data.

• Receiving, cycle counts, and purchasing feed one inventory truth that updates the moment a box is scanned — not overnight.
• Profit intelligence joins cost, freight, fees, and payroll into per-product and per-store margin, live instead of month-end.
• Scheduling, payroll, and commission run in the same system the sales data lives in, so the weekly rebuild-the-sheet ritual is gone.
• An AI layer answers plain-English questions — “which store ran the best margin last week?” — grounded in the live operation, not a generic model's guess.

1. 01

   Mapped how money and inventory move

   Sat inside the operation — floor, back office, spreadsheets — until the real workflow was on paper.

2. 02

   Modeled the data, not a demo

   Stores, vendors, SKUs, shifts, and margins became one schema that matches how the business reasons about itself.

3. 03

   Shipped module by module

   Receiving, counts, purchasing, orders, profit, and workforce went live on Common Hype's own domain against real data.

4. 04

   Wired the integrations

   Shopify, QuickBooks, Shippo, and Discord connected so the system reconciles continuously instead of overnight.

5. 05

   Put AI on top of the data

   Plain-English questions return answers grounded in the live operation — not a generic model's guess.

• Inventory & counts
• Purchasing → receiving
• Shopify orders & refunds
• Profit intelligence
• Scheduling & payroll
• Commission & cash
• AI on your data
• QuickBooks · Shippo · Discord

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Supabase / Postgres
• Playwright E2E
• Vercel