Avent
AI agents for industrial commerce
Hey everyone 👋
TL;DR
Avent builds the AI inside sales rep for industrial distributors and manufacturers. Our AI sales rep automates quoting, order entry, and product search so the human sales teams at these companies can spend time with customers again.
Ask: Can you introduce us distributors, manufacturers or IMR’s (Independent Manufacturer Reps)?
Contact us at founders@aventindustrial.com
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📉 The Problem
I saw firsthand as an operator that growth in distribution is capped almost entirely by hiring. It’s hard to find good sales talent, and even harder to retain.
- Sales teams spend most of their day quoting, entering orders, and chasing product data instead of talking to customers.
- Training new reps takes months, and more than 50% of the workforce will retire this decade.
- Critical knowledge lives in inboxes or people’s heads, and disappears when they leave.
The result: companies can’t scale beyond the speed of hiring, while service slows and relationships suffer.
📈 Our Solution
Avent watch every channel where customer requests arrive—email, fax, phone:
- Quoting: When a customer asks for a price, Avent finds the correct product and pricing, generates the quote, and prepares it to send.
- Order Entry: When the customer follows up with a purchase order (PO), Avent matches it to the earlier quote, creates the sales order, and inputs it into the company’s ledger
- Procurement: Never lose an order. If a customer needs something that’s not in stock, Avent will find the best cost from in-network distributors and quote
Avent generates over $200,000 worth of quotes every day for distributors across North America and the UK.
The Story
I grew up in factories, and as kids my older brother and I would spend hours talking about how to take it to the next level. Every brainstorm somehow ended in the same place: hiring. Turns out, that wasn’t just our problem. It’s everyone’s problem in distribution.
Avent is what I wish we had back then!
