Intel drops.
Working calculators, templates, and systems for promo distributors and operators.
Three tiers, and the first one costs nothing at all: tools that run in your browser, templates that come by email, and the deep build documentation behind a free portal account.
Free tools
All six tools →No signup, no email, nothing stored. Every one takes your own rates, because your contract pricing beats any published table and your costs are nobody else's business.
In-Hands Date Calculator
Give it the event date, get the last day the order can actually be placed.
Free toolDecoration Pricing Calculator
Screen print, embroidery, DTF, and laser priced the way suppliers actually bill it.
Free toolPromo Quote & Margin Calculator
Cost in, sell price out. Or a client budget in, and the margin it leaves you.
Free toolT-Shirt Size Ratio Calculator
Split an apparel order across sizes without guessing, including the extended-size upcharges.
Free toolKitting & Fulfillment Quote Widget
What a kitted box actually costs to assemble, before you quote it as "a few bucks each."
Free toolMerch Wit Generator
Merch copy that sounds like a person wrote it, for whatever niche you sell into.
SIPS
Paste a CommonSKU share link and the whole job lands in your CRM: client, contact, line items, images, real cost, real sell, true margin, in-hands date, artwork. No API, no integration fee, no permission. A complete promo operating system — hosted, supported, and run by the person who built it.
See the platform →Templates and playbooks
The documents worth an email address. Each one arrives in your inbox within a minute, and the download is right there on the page too.
Project SKU: The Complete Walkthrough
Paste a CommonSKU share link and the whole job lands in your CRM: client, contact, line items, images, real cost, real sell, true margin, in-hands date, artwork. No API, no integration fee, no permission. The 17-page walkthrough of the platform, all seven modules, what the stack it replaces costs, and how to make it your own. The software itself is free.
The Claude Code Team Onboarding Playbook
Take your team from chatting with AI to putting agents to work. The one week course laid out day by day: department playbooks, the subscription decision, install day, the company brain, guardrails that protect quality, and the coaching structure that makes it stick.
The Company Brain Blueprint
Build an AI second brain for your business out of plain text files you actually own. The complete folder structure, the starter AGENTS.md rulebook you can copy and paste, page templates, and the weekly rhythm that keeps it running. No fluff. Just the build.
The 12-Month Promo Marketing Calendar
The full-year planning template: monthly campaign themes, order-by deadlines, and the client questions that fill it in. The same structure behind 327 verified calendar entries.
The Quote & Invoice Template Pack
The line-item structure behind quotes that do not get picked apart: what to itemize, what to bundle, the eight fields every promo quote needs, and the follow-up cadence that turns quotes into orders.
The Kitting Rate Card + Kit Spec Sheet
The two documents that make kitting quotable: a rate card structure covering assembly, materials, setup, and storage, and the kit spec sheet that stops assembly questions before they start.
The AI Readiness Checklist
A one-page audit for distributors: which of your workflows are ready for automation today, which need cleanup first, and where to start for the fastest payback.
The deep shelf
Full system documentation, delivered into a free client-portal account. The account is free and stays useful: it is the same portal my clients work out of.
The Company Brain Starter Kit
The knowledge-system pattern my whole operation stands on: plain-text operational memory that every AI tool you adopt can read on day one. Structure, folder contract, ingestion rules, and the maintenance rhythm that keeps it from rotting.
- The three-layer structure (source material, distilled pages, navigation layer) and why each exists
- The page contract: what every entry carries so a model can use it without you re-explaining
- The weekly maintenance loop that takes about twenty minutes
- Starter templates for client, supplier, and concept pages
The 50-Lead Cold Outreach System
The full outbound system I run on my own book: research per lead, verification before sending, drafting in a real voice, the warmup ramp that protects your domain, and the follow-up cadence. Every send stays human-approved.
- Lead research and qualification criteria for promo buyers specifically
- Deliverability: MX verification, the daily send ramp, and what torches a domain
- The message structure and follow-up cadence, with the reasoning behind each touch
- The tracking ledger so you always know who owes whom a reply
Full build documentation
The complete write-up for any build on the evidence shelf: architecture, the failure modes I hit, what it cost to build, and what it would take to run it yourself. Tell me which build and it lands in your portal.
- How the system actually works, at implementation depth
- The traps and failure modes, including the ones that cost me a weekend
- Build effort and what it replaced
- What you would need to run your own version
Requested assets are delivered into your portal Documents. If it has not landed within a business day, email logan@stoutintel.com and I will push it manually.
The library
The 30-Minute Tax: what manual data entry really costs a small business
Every rep who spends 30 minutes a day updating a CRM, copying order statuses between tools, or rebuilding the same spreadsheet is paying a hidden tax: over 120 hours a year, per person, spent maintaining tools instead of running the business. The report breaks down where those hours hide (CRM upkeep, status chasing, quote assembly, reporting), what that costs at real salaries, and the automation order-of-operations for getting the hours back, starting with the systems your team already uses. Get the full PDF free below.
The 30-Minute Tax.
Every manual re-key, copy-paste, and “just update the spreadsheet” quietly taxes your team a slice of every single day. Individually it’s thirty minutes. Across a week, a headcount, a year, it compounds into real capacity you’re paying for and never getting back.
This report breaks down where the hidden cost of manual data entry actually hides, how to spot it in your own operation, and what automating it recovers, in hours, focus, and margin. Plain language, no jargon, built for operators.