Carrefour has data teams. Colruyt has prediction algorithms. Amazon has inventory AI. Your neighborhood cheese shop, your local florist, your independent bookstore? They have a notebook and a gut feeling. The tools that big distribution uses to crush small shops don't exist for small shops. Until now.
Open-source prediction, inventory, and point-of-sale tools — built by shop owners, developers, and anyone who wants their local bakery to survive. Not a SaaS subscription. Not a vendor lock-in. Tools you own, tools you control, tools the whole community maintains.
Demand forecasting, trend detection, seasonal planning. The stuff Carrefour's data teams do — accessible to a shop with one employee.
Stock tracking, supplier management, waste reduction. Simple, visual, designed for people who think in products, not spreadsheets.
A cooperative, open-source cash register system. No monthly SaaS fees. No vendor lock-in. Owned by the people who use it.
Small shop owners who know exactly what they need. Developers who want their local bakery to survive. Designers who want enterprise-grade tools accessible to non-technical people. No one gets paid. Everyone gets ownership. Contributors receive co-op shares in David Toolkit.
You build it, you own a piece of it
Real tools used by real shops, in your name
Every independent shop that survives is a win
Julien runs Chez Julien — a specialty food shop in Brussels. He builds between customers, on evenings, on whatever device is within reach. Phone behind the counter. Laptop at home after closing. He knows what's missing because he lives it every day. The features aren't imagined — they're needed.
Every bakery in Belgium. Every bookstore in France. Every florist in Germany. Every cheese shop in Italy. Open-source, free to use, cooperatively maintained. The big chains have their tools. Now the small shops have theirs.
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