About us.
Choppycast delivers AI-driven demand forecasting and pricing decisions as a managed service for demand-driven businesses. Our agentic models transform complex demand signals into operational forecasts and pricing recommendations that can be used directly in daily operations.
Unlike traditional forecasting systems, our adaptive models continuously learn from changing demand patterns and external factors, allowing forecasts and decisions to improve over time and remain relevant in real operational environments.
Companies use Choppycast to improve margins, optimize inventory, and strengthen operational performance.
Our approach.
We combine your operational expertise and internal data with our proprietary datasets and agentic AI to establish a reliable foundation for demand-driven decisions. Structured data and tailored dashboards provide transparency and alignment before models are deployed.
On this foundation, we develop adaptive models that not only predict demand, but also recommend concrete actions across pricing, replenishment, staffing, and other operational decisions.
We take full responsibility for implementation, operation, and continuous optimization. The result is measurable improvements in margins, operational efficiency, and decision quality.
By Frivind AS.
Choppycast is developed and operated by the Norwegian company Frivind AS.
For more than a decade, we have developed, deployed, and continuously operated forecasting and decision-support models at scale. This experience gives us a deep understanding of how complex demand signals, external factors, and market dynamics influence demand-driven businesses.
We are located in Sogndal, western Norway, a small place with a global outlook. From here we combine deep expertise, curiosity, and technology to solve complex forecasting and pricing challenges for businesses around the world.
Team.
Choppycast is built by a multidisciplinary team that includes engineers, data scientists, meteorologists and retail specialists working to turn complex data into operational decisions.
Meet some of the team behind Choppycast:
Mads Christensen
Founder & CEO
Responsible for company strategy, product vision, and growth. Hands-on in daily operations, including customer dialogue, solution delivery, and product & engineering decisions.
Strategy | Customer dialogue | Product & engineering
Konrad Fagertun
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Responsible for customer success across all clients, and for market and sales. Product owner for the amusement park solutions.
Customer success | Market & sales | Amusement parks
Henning Hansen
Chairman of the Board
Responsible for strategic direction and for guiding how the solutions should evolve strategically—ensuring long-term fit, differentiation, and value for customers..
Strategy | Governance | Solution direction
Tormod Lutro Pettersen
Sales
Responsible for new business development and for maintaining strong relationships with existing customers.
New business | Partnerships | Account follow-up
Åsbjørn Haualand
Lead Engineer & Product Owner
Technical lead responsible for core systems. Product owner for forecasting and replenishment, with a strong data science foundation to ensure models and systems work in real-world operations.
Forecasting | Replenishment | Data science
Steinar Henriksen
System Lead
Responsible for system architecture and security across the platform.
Architecture | Security | Platform
Jørgen Farner
Product Owner
Data scientist and product owner for price and promotion systems, with a strong intuition for complex systems and how they behave in real-world operations.
Pricing | Promotions | Data science
Lasse Brun
System Lead
Responsible for customer-facing systems, data flows, and user interaction.
Customer systems | Data flows | UX/interaction
Data driven Since 2011.
Since 2011, we have worked with large-scale data modeling and advanced analytics. Our foundation is built on rigorous data science and continuous model development.
Through years of analyzing how demand drivers influence real-world operations, we identified clear opportunities within demand forecasting, pricing, promotion planning, and production planning.
This work marked the start of our demand-driven approach — combining data science, forecasting, and operational decision support to improve business performance.
Scaled Globally.
Today, ChoppyCast supports demand-driven businesses across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
We work as a long-term partner — not to replace your expertise, but to strengthen it. Through close collaboration and structured onboarding, we ensure that our forecasts and pricing decisions integrate naturally into daily operations.
While markets differ, the principle remains the same: better demand understanding leads to better decisions.