What the work shows
- Revenue vs. cost-cutting
- 5×
- Quote turnaround
- 75%
- Opportunity depth
- 51+
- Experience
- 40+
ROI difference between revenue use cases and cost-cutting use cases
Reduction in quote turnaround time, measured across implementations
AI opportunities identified at a single $250M distributor
Years combined experience implementing AI in B2B industrial companies
These are findings from work already done — not projections.
How we work with you
Every engagement is scoped to where you are.
Most companies move through these in order. Each one stands alone.
Get started
Understand where you are and what to do first.
For companies that know AI should be a priority — but haven’t committed to a direction yet.
- AI Roadmap & Strategy — opportunity assessment, ROI modeling, phased plan. Six-week engagement.
- Executive Alignment Briefing — half-day workshop. Builds leadership consensus before committing to a path.
- AI Policy & Governance — usage policies, oversight structure, vendor criteria, data security. Right-sized for mid-market.
- Training — a twelve-week live cohort on Claude that teaches your team to use AI on their own work, with a year of membership after. See membership
Build capabilities
Move from knowing what to do to actually doing it — on a fixed budget, with proven tools.
For companies that have direction and want to move fast without building the wrong thing.
- Build Your AI Capabilities — Add and improve your company’s AI building capabilities. We work with your team from discovery to prototype, then train your team to build the AI workflows themselves using your tools.
- Implementation Services — Fixed spend assistance to unlock AI capabilities. Custom AI workflows, integration to ERP (SAP, Profit21, etc.), data architecture, storage.
- Library — ready-made skills, proven and fast to deploy: quote acceleration, part matching, catalog intelligence, account meeting prep and more. Browse the library
Stay current
AI moves fast. We keep you from falling behind — and answer the questions that come up between projects.
For companies that have started and don’t want to figure out every new development on their own.
- Ongoing training — as AI capabilities evolve, your team stays current.
- Market & technology intelligence — what’s relevant for distribution, filtered from the general noise.
- Ad-hoc questions and requests — direct access when something comes up.
Why this firm
Practitioners, not theorists. Forty years of doing this work.
We have built AI at scale in some of the largest industrial companies in the world. We bring that pattern recognition to mid-sized distributors.
Price optimization and Machine Learning-driven sales intelligence at HD Supply, Cargill, and UPS — now applied to mid-market distribution.
The frameworks we use aren’t adapted from general consulting literature. They were built working on the same problems at larger scale across hundreds of projects our team oversaw. We know what works at $250M because we’ve seen what it took at $25B.
We publish our thinking. The Five-Stage AI Maturity Framework structures how we assess and sequence AI investments across distribution organizations. Our ROI methodology separates efficiency returns from revenue returns — a distinction that consistently changes which opportunities clients prioritize first.
Brooks Hamilton co-hosts the Distribution Strategy Group podcast and has delivered more than 15 keynotes across the distribution industry. Published in TED Magazine, The Wholesaler, and other distribution trade journals.
One next step
The call is worth your time — regardless of whether we work together.
Most distributors we talk to leave with 2–3 concrete ideas, whether they engage us or not.
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