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The most ambitioussee what theirindustry can't.

We help the most forward-thinking companies in distribution get more out of the systems they already run.

See if it's a fit

The short version.

What we install

The AI Distributor Operating System.

One operating layer across the whole floor — inventory, orders, purchasing, and the numbers. This is a demonstration floor; your operation replaces these figures.

5 agents on the floor · demo floor — not customer data

A delivery lands. It is checked in, counted, and on the record before the pallet is unwrapped. An order comes in. Stock is allocated, picked, and out the door — the count already right. SKU-4471 is moving 32% faster this month. The floor sees it before the shelf goes empty. Three manufacturer prices compared, the reorder drafted at $3.92 — and held for a human yes. Spend, coverage, demand — read continuously, handed to your people, decided by them. All of it, at once, all day — the floor saw everything before anyone walked it. Your people made every call.

That's one day on a demo floor, compressed to 29 seconds. See if it fits yours ->

The industries that make, move, and sell everything have always been served last.

We think they should be served best.

Where it lands.

Everything on every shelf in this country sat in one of your warehouses first, whether it is consumer goods, industrial supply, or medical and healthcare product. These are the four places in that operation where we think AI changes what is possible.

  • Pricing and margin
  • Customer and credit risk
  • Delivery and routing
  • Purchasing and inventory

How a price is decided today

  1. erp export
  2. email thread
  3. spreadsheet
  4. gut call
  5. price list

Four moves.

We study how the business really runs, function by function, and we come back with it written down: where it would make a difference, what it would take to get there, and what each piece of it is worth to you. You read that before a single thing gets built, and then you decide whether any of it is worth doing.

Read only, on whatever you use to run the business. Years of orders, costs, and customers are sitting in there, and that history is what tells us where this lands and what it is worth once it is there. Nothing gets replaced, and everything stays exactly where it is.

You watch it work on your own numbers, inside your own operation, before anyone brings up a second one. If it does not do what we said it would do, you have spent a month and found that out cheaply.

It works every day and we keep it working, tuning it as the operation changes and fixing what needs fixing. We build the next thing only once the first one has earned its place.

For as long as these industries have existed, how far a company could go was decided by how much its people could hold in their heads. We think that should stop being true.

A distributor's operation, in March.
nextas
Connected
Pricing & margin
4,100
SKUs against live cost.
14 held for you.
Customers & credit
2,240
accounts read against their own history.
3 slipping.
Delivery & routing
88
routes costed daily.
2 under cost.
Purchasing & inventory
1,400
reorder points, moved as cost moved.
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The whole deal.

01
1
Audit before anything gets built.
02
100%
Of the audit fee credited toward the build.
03
0
Rip and replace. Everything you run today, you keep running.
04
0
Waiting for month-end. It's already been handled.

Three questions.

Fit quiz · 3 questions · 30 seconds

Three questions here, then twenty minutes, and you will know where AI would land in your operation and what we think it is worth.

Three questions, then twenty minutes. You tell us how it runs today, and we tell you what we would build first and what we think it is worth.