Backed by and in production at ALDO Group. Founded by Fatih Nayebi, author of Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail.
Montréal
Where OODARIS is designed and built
ALDO Group
Backer and customer
MFP and OTB
In production at ALDO Group
2nd edition
Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail
Built in retail: the people behind OODARIS were building AI inside ALDO Group before the company existed.
Made in Montréal, Canada.Fait à Montréal, au Canada.
Before OODARIS
Fatih spent years building AI products and putting them into production. In retail he kept meeting the same gap: merchants, planners and allocators spend a lot of their time getting to a decision, across spreadsheets, handoffs and static rules, before they can make it.
ALDO Group2022–2025
As VP of Data & AI at ALDO Group, Fatih built AI for the retailer's own decisions, from inventory optimization to assortment planning.
McGill UniversitySince 2019
He teaches at McGill, where students learn to design, build and run agentic AI systems.
2025
The ideas behind OODARIS are written up in Fatih's book. A second edition followed in January 2026.
About the bookOODARIS AI2025
Fatih founded OODARIS AI in Montréal to close that gap, with funding from ALDO Group, which is also a customer.
The team
He brought a team from ALDO Group, some of them his former students at McGill. At ALDO they had built markdown optimization and order fulfillment optimization, which still run in production there. OODARIS rebuilt both from scratch on its own platform.
Today
Merchandise financial planning and open-to-buy run in production at ALDO Group, across its four brands. All five decisions are available to new clients.
Read the ALDO Group storyTurn retail data into decisions, every day. OODARIS watches the business overnight, explains what moved and proposes the fix; by default, its owner approves before anything is written back.
Every retail decision made with AI, from the season plan to the last markdown: less waste, more value, and the right product in front of every customer.
The team building OODARIS spans agentic AI systems, operations research, data science, product and engineering.
We're hiring in Montréal and across Canada.
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Founder & CEO
Fatih founded OODARIS and leads the company. He wrote Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail.
He is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, where he teaches Designing & Building Agentic AI Systems, Deep Learning, Data Science, and Machine Learning in Production.
He has worked with global retailers on AI research and its implementation.
AI Product Manager
Arnav leads product vision and platform strategy at OODARIS.
Full Stack Engineer
Allen builds web applications end to end, from the interface to the AI integration.
He works in MVC architecture and keeps the code easy to maintain.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Frontend and mobile developer with about a decade of experience on finance, weather, entertainment and medical products.
He focuses on fast, responsive interfaces for complex workflows.
AI Engineer
PhD in industrial engineering and applied mathematics.
Philippe builds agents that combine simulation, operations research and machine learning.
Data Scientist
Adrian designs production machine learning systems for retail decisions.
His background is demand forecasting for large retail operations.
Data Scientist
Master of Management in Analytics from McGill. Arial works on machine learning, demand forecasting and agentic AI for retail.
In a demo we follow one decision through OODARIS: what it checked overnight, what it proposed, who approved it and what it wrote back. A pilot reaches a first live cycle in 8–12 weeks.
+4–8%
Gross-margin dollars
−8–12pp
Discount depth
+1–3pp
Margin rate
8–12 wks
To a first live cycle
Ranges measured in pilots and in production at ALDO Group, against an agreed control.