The Friday Avocado Factor

The hum of the server room was the only heartbeat I needed at FreshRoute.

While others saw a chaotic storm of churn, I saw a constellation of predictors.

I found it. A single feature kept screaming for attention: The Friday Avocado

Factor. Unripe fruit for weekend toast meant an eighty percent chance of losing

that customer. We used computer vision models in the warehouse to sort produce by

ripeness levels. Retention jumped by twelve percent as the downward trend line finally snapped

upward. So, it was a coding fix that saved the company?

No. It was a listening fix. We just had to hear the