per order, vs ~15 min by hand
Conexiom (vendor-reported)
AI consultancy · built only for wholesale distribution
The AI consultancy built
The AI consultancy built
only for wholesale distributors.
We find the costly manual work in your back-office, automate it, and stand behind the result. Order intake, AP, AR, and the documents that bog your team down — we diagnose it, build it, and run it. You see the dollar number before you pay. And if we miss it, you don't pay for it.
Diagnose → Build → Run No fit, no fee. We adapt to your ERP. Your name stays off our site.
The back-office we take off your plate
One firm, the whole flow — we start where the payback is clearest, then expand
Order intake
Email, PDF & fax orders become ERP-ready — no rekeying.
Accounts payable
Vendor invoices read, matched, and coded for approval.
AR & collections
Faster cash, fewer past-dues, less manual chasing.
Documents
Quotes, acknowledgements & COAs read and filed automatically.
Forecasting
Demand and reorder signals from the data you already have.
Where we usually start: the order-intake leak
A ~$30M distributor · illustrative — your audit replaces this with your real number
$184,200/year on manual
order entry
order entry
The evidence we build on
ConexiomEskerAPQC / ArdentMDM benchmarks[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, invoices, and documents 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. Order intake is just the clearest place to see it.
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.” Your team reads it anyway, by hand.
04
Invoices, acknowledgements, COAs — read, re-key, file. Every one a chance for a mistake that hits 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 distribution
Built around how distributors 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, no generalist learning curve.
Hinge: specialists grow ~4× faster02 — Show the number
You see the cost 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 a real order sample. No bare claims, no black box.
See it in the calculator →03 — Stand behind it
We put our fee on the result
We prove it on one workflow, measure the before and after, and put our build fee on hitting the number. If we miss it, you don't pay for it. Most firms charge a flat fee no matter what happens.
No fit, no fee03How we work
Three steps, built for
skeptical owners. Each one
de-risks the next.
A working system you can measure in about two weeks — not a slide deck, not a sandbox demo. We scope and price each step after the audit, against your real numbers, so there's no guesswork either way. Deliverables read like a diligence memo, not a pitch.
1
Start with the audit
We scan your workflows and data, rank the biggest leaks, and put a measured dollar number on each.
See your number1–3 weeks
2
Build one workflow, proven fee on the result
We deploy the highest-payback fix on a contained scope, with before/after measurement. Fixed fee — and our fee rides on hitting the number.
Prove it2–6 weeks
3
Run & expand
Once it works, we measure the payback and expand across the back-office — AP, AR, documents, forecasting.
Grow itongoing
04The economics
Every number shows its work.
Cumulative savings vs. first-year investment
Illustrative ~$30M distributor · audit + build, software 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
05Who we serve
All in on distribution.
Not spread across ten industries.
🟦 What we do
Wholesale distribution
Industrial/MRO, electrical, PHCP. We start by turning email/PDF/fax orders into ERP-ready orders without rekeying — then AP, AR, documents, and forecasting.
Prophet 21EclipseInfor SX.eNetSuiteA-D · IMARK
🟧 Expanding intoIndependent insurance agencies
The same back-office pattern in an adjacent owner-operated world: COI issuance, submission & renewal re-keying, policy checking. [VERIFY] — taking on a first design-partner agency.
Applied EpicEZLynxAMS360HawkSoft
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 next wedge with even cleaner cost-per-invoice math. Names withheld by default; references on request.
🟦 AR & collections · placeholder
~XX days faster cash
[PLACEHOLDER]
Days of working capital freed and fewer past-dues — the cash-flow side of the same back-office.
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 measured before/after on engagement #1.
Press & speaking
Topics we speak on: the real ROI of touchless order intake · what breaks in an AI rollout · standing behind AI results with your own fee.
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 the 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: if we miss it, you don't pay for it.
Is my data safe?
Your data stays on US infrastructure, with a person in the loop 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 put our fee on 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 part of the build fee on a measured target. If we miss the number, you don't pay for missing it. How the guarantee works →
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.