per order, vs ~15 min by hand
Conexiom (vendor-reported)
AI back-office systems · distribution & insurance
The margin you're
The margin you're
leaving on the table,
turned into money.
We turn the emails, PDFs, and faxes your team retypes all day into accurate, automated systems — and we underwrite the savings like a deal, not a demo. Price with proof. No black box.
Order-intake leak · a ~$30M distributor
Illustrative · your audit replaces this with a measured baseline
$184,200/year on manual
order entry
order entry
Cost per order
today vs. touchless target
$7.71 $1.40
The evidence we build on
ConexiomEskerAPQC / ArdentBig "I" · Reagan[PLACEHOLDER: your logo]
We have no client logos to borrow yet — so every number on this site is either your own (the calculator, the audit) or an attributed third-party benchmark. Your name stays off our site; your data stays on US infrastructure. References on request.
01The problem, in your words
You didn't get into distribution
to run a data-entry department.
The same orders arrive by email, PDF, and fax — and someone keys every one by hand. At $8–15 per order (Mirage Metrics), that's real money, on repeat, in a business where margin is already thin.
See what it's costing you01
You're paying skilled people to type. Every day. On repeat.
02
Margins in distribution are thin. Labor costs aren't. This is the fastest way to close the gap.
03
Your customers don't send clean POs — they say “send the usual.” We read it anyway.
04
Retype and review, every time — it eats hours and invites mistakes that hit your ERP.
05
Slow quotes lose deals. Most quotes die in follow-up limbo.
02Why MarginArc
Everyone claims ROI. We do the three
things that actually make it true.
01 — Specialize
We do nothing but your vertical
Built around how distributors and agencies actually run — not how software vendors wish you did. We speak P21, Eclipse, fill rate, GMROI, and DSO out of the box. No translation layer.
Hinge: specialists grow ~4× faster02 — Substantiate
We show the number before you pay
The free calculator gives you a dollar figure today; the paid audit replaces every assumption with a measured baseline from your own ERP and order sample. No bare claims.
See it in the calculator →03 — Underwrite
We tie our fee to the result
We prove it on one workflow, instrument before/after, and put our build fee on hitting the number. No fit, no fee. Competitors charge flat fees and never underwrite the outcome.
The most ownable line we have03How it works
A ladder built for skeptical
owners. Each rung de-risks
the next.
A working system you can measure in about two weeks — not a slide deck, not a sandbox demo. Deliverables read like a diligence memo, not a pitch.
1
AI Audit / Data-Readiness
Workflow + data-quality scan, prioritized backlog, baseline KPIs, the ROI bridge.
$15–40K1–3 weeks
2
Build Sprint fixed fee · underwritten
Deploy the wedge on a contained scope, reselling a proven engine, with a before/after harness.
$40–120K2–6 weeks
3
Run / fractional retainer
Expand the ladder — AP → AR → forecasting — with optional outcome-based pricing.
$10–30K/month
04The economics
Every number shows its work.
Cumulative savings vs. first-year investment
Illustrative ~$30M distributor · audit + build, engine license excluded
Where inbound orders come from
Phone & EDI aside, the email/PDF/fax pile is the wedge
Email/PDF 40%Phone 25%Fax 10%EDI/eComm 25%
45 sec
up to 80%
faster order processing
Conexiom / Proton
90%+
touchless rate, top performers
vendor benchmark
~30 days
to live, zero ERP changes
we adapt to your system
05Industries
Deep in two verticals. Not
spread across ten.
🟦 Primary
Wholesale distribution
Industrial/MRO, electrical, PHCP. The wedge: turning email/PDF/fax orders into ERP-ready orders without rekeying — then AP, AR, and forecasting.
Prophet 21EclipseInfor SX.eNetSuiteA-D · IMARK
🟧 SecondaryIndependent insurance agencies
COI issuance, submission & renewal re-keying across carrier portals, policy checking. Capacity to write more without hiring. [VERIFY]
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06Results
Proof, not promises —
structured for when it's real.
The proof center
🟦 Order intake · placeholder
$XX,XXX/yr recovered
[PLACEHOLDER]
Situation → wedge → before/after (cost-per-order, touchless rate) → owner quote. Structured like a real case; populated after engagement #1's audited baseline.
🟦 AP automation · placeholder
~XX% lower cost/invoice
[PLACEHOLDER]
The fallback wedge with even cleaner cost-per-invoice math. Names withheld by default; references on request.
🟧 COI issuance · placeholder
~XX hrs/wk freed
[PLACEHOLDER]
Hours reclaimed and capacity to write more. [VERIFY] with a design-partner agency.
Until our own cases exist, we lead with attributed benchmarks: Graybar processed 83,000 documents with 9.5M line items through Conexiom in H1 2021; Sonepar saved ~1,000 hours/month.Vendor-reported. We replace these with our own audited before/after on engagement #1.
Press & speaking
Topics we speak on: the real ROI of touchless order intake · what breaks in an AI rollout · underwriting AI outcomes.
07Owner questions, answered straight
The questions skeptical owners
actually ask.
Will this replace my people?
No. The whole pitch is "do more with the staff you can't hire." Your reps move from order-takers to order-makers — the system handles the retyping and flags exceptions for a human. These are aging, hard-to-fill roles; we give your team capacity back, not a pink slip.
We got burned by our last ERP project. Why is this different?
Small first scope, fixed fee, measurable milestones, and we adapt to your ERP — no rip-and-replace, zero changes to how it's configured. You see a working system you can measure in about two weeks. And we put our build fee on hitting the number: no fit, no fee.
Is my data safe?
Your data stays on US infrastructure, with human-in-the-loop thresholds so nothing dirty auto-propagates into your system of record. Your name stays off our site. See Security & Trust for exactly what we do and don't touch.
Why not just hire someone to do this in-house?
A capable in-house AI hire is 6–12 months and six figures a year before they've shipped anything — and they're a generalist learning your business. We're specialists who are live in ~30 days, on a fixed fee, and we underwrite the result. Compare the options →
How do I know your number is real?
You don't have to take it on faith. The calculator shows a bottom-up estimate from your own inputs; the paid audit replaces every assumption with a measured baseline from your ERP and a real order sample. Then we tie our fee to it. No black box — every number shows its work.
What if it doesn't work?
That's what the guarantee is for. We qualify hard up front (no fit, no fee on the audit), prove it on one workflow, and put a defined portion of the build fee at risk against a measured target. If we miss the number, you don't pay for missing it. How we underwrite it →
Find your number.
Two minutes to a dollar figure. Then, if it's worth it, we'll verify it on a real sample and tie our fee to hitting it. No fit, no fee.