Run your distributorship on AI.
Order-status ping-pong. Quote turnaround measured in days. Suppliers who go quiet on POs. A CRM that is always one conversation behind. That is not a people problem, it is a systems problem, and it is exactly what Stout Intel automates.
Built by a promo industry veteran who carried a distributor sales bag: the quoting math, decoration methods, supplier chaos, and in-hands panic are first-hand knowledge here, not research.
Every distributor problem lives in one of these
The work that eats your day.
Order tracking that updates itself
Stop playing order-status ping-pong between supplier emails, tracking numbers, and "any update on this?" client messages. Agents read the mailbox and shipping feeds, keep a live status board current, and generate client-safe tracking updates automatically, so your team answers in seconds instead of digging for ten minutes.
Quotes in minutes, margin protected
Supplier quote comes in; a branded, client-ready quote goes out with your margin math applied consistently every time. One distributor client cut 80% of the manual steps and quotes 10× faster, without a single margin mistake from mental math on a busy day.
Supplier follow-up on autopilot
POs that have not been confirmed, proofs that have not come back, in-hands dates at risk: agents watch the threads and chase suppliers before you have to. Nothing slips because someone was out on Friday.
A CRM your reps never touch
Reps talk in Slack and email; the CRM updates itself. Deals get created when real work appears, matched by project or PO number, notes appended, stages advanced. Pipeline reviews run off data that is actually current.
CommonSKU, ShipStation, and Pipedrive, finally talking
Your platforms each hold a piece of the truth. We wire them together, plus a company knowledge brain on top, so "what is the status of the Anderson order" has one answer, available to anyone, instantly.
Decoration & production intelligence
Decoration methods, run charges, setup fees, vendor minimums: codified into systems that quote correctly and flag problems early, built by someone who has actually run these jobs.
A distributor client, measured.
A promotional products distributor was assembling every quote by hand: reading supplier pricing, applying margin, formatting a client document. We built an AI quoting pipeline that takes the supplier quote in and puts a branded, client-ready quote out with margin protected by policy, not by memory. Quoting went from a block-your-afternoon task to a couple of minutes.
Asked by operators.
Do you actually know the promo industry?
+
Yes. Logan Stout spent years as a distributor sales rep before founding Stout Intel: quoting, sourcing, decoration, PO chasing, supplier chaos, and in-hands deadlines. The automation is designed around the real workflows, not a generic template.
What does automation cost for a distributorship?
+
Most distributor builds land between $1,500 and $9,000 one-time, depending on scope: order tracking, quoting, CRM automation, or a combination. A $100 refundable strategy session maps your highest-leverage starting point first.
We run on CommonSKU. Can you work with it?
+
Yes. CommonSKU, ShipStation, Pipedrive, Slack, Google Workspace, QuickBooks, and 50 platforms across our shipped builds. If your stack has an export, an API, or an inbox, we can automate around it.
How fast do we see results?
+
First working automation is typically live within 2 to 4 weeks. We ship in slices: the highest-pain workflow first, running in production, before expanding, so you see the return before you commit to more.
Get your hours back.
One hour with Logan maps your distributorship's highest-leverage automation: where the manual hours hide, what to automate first, and what it costs. $100, refundable, applied to your project if we build together.