AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers
Hey everyone, we’re Jack and Swen - cofounders of Ventura 👋
TL;DR
Industrial distributors spend billions of dollars a year on inside sales teams whose primary job is manually typing quotes and orders into ERPs. Ventura automates that work. Reps go from doing data entry to approving AI-generated quotes. Response times drop from hours to minutes, and distributors win more business.
❌ The Problem
Industrial distribution is an $8 trillion industry. It keeps the construction industry supplied and factories running. But the tools running it haven't kept up.
A typical distributor gets hundreds of quote and order requests every day - over email, PDF, Excel, handwritten fax, and phone. Every one has to be manually read, interpreted, and typed into the ERP. By a human.
The best salespeople in the industry spend their days on data entry instead of selling.
✅ The Solution
Ventura plugs into the ERP distributors already run on. Most customers are live within days. Ventura interprets the incoming request, drafts a quote or order, and provides an interface for reps to review Ventura’s output. The result then gets submitted to the ERP.
👋 The Team
Swen (CEO) — Advised steel, cement, and industrial machinery manufacturers as a consultant at BCG, then co-founded and exited a process automation platform for European wholesale distributors. While doing his MBA at Harvard, he embedded with a $2bn distributor to build their AI sales automation from scratch. That became Ventura.
Jack (CTO) — Has been building with AI Language Models since before they became large. Founding Engineer at Develop Health, where he automated back-office operations in healthcare with AI - the same class of problems we're solving for distributors. The company scaled from zero to $7M ARR in 14 months with a team of 5.
🤝 Our Ask
Are you a distributor or manufacturer with a large inside sales or customer service team? We'd love to show you what Ventura can do.
📧 Reach out: founders@ventura.ai
🌐 Request a demo: www.ventura.ai
