The commercial intelligence layer for distributors
Make every quote defend your margin.
PIE checks every quote line against your own floor before it goes out, holds what breaches it for a manager, and reports the margin that held — every figure openable, and re-derivable from the rows your desk already wrote. It reads the ERP you already run and replaces none of it.
A working session on your numbers, not a slide deck. No account, no card, and nothing connected until you say so.
Part 4114-08
200 units for A repeat account in Ohio, quoted at $41.20 — routed to a sales manager, no individual owner. The platform holds it, not the salesperson.
| Quoted unit pricethis quote | $41.20 |
| Effective unit costbill | $38.08 |
| Margin flooryour margin policy | $44.80 |
| Recommendedthis customer’s own history | $48.70 |
| Margin at this pricecomputed | 7.6% |
The manager’s decision card, as the product draws it — with sample figures, because no customer’s numbers belong on a public page.
Why it can be trusted
The AI never computes a single number.
Your business data and your rules determine the number. AI explains it.
Same inputs, same answer, every time — with a paper trail.
- Deterministic calculations — every figure is arithmetic on your own records; turn AI off and every number still works
- Auditable decisions — each number names the policy that produced it, so a price you quoted last quarter still explains itself
- Your data — read from your own books, used for you alone, exportable and erasable on request; AI runs on your own account
- Your rules — you set the floors and thresholds, and PIE holds every quote to them
- Provenance — every row carries the connector, the connection and the id it came from, so nothing in PIE claims a source it did not have
Margin doesn’t vanish in one bad deal. It leaks.
A busy quote desk makes hundreds of small pricing decisions a month. Nobody sees the pattern — because the pattern lives across years of ledger, and nobody has time to read the ledger.
Quotes below your floor
Salespeople don’t always have the history and margin context when quoting. PIE checks every line against your policy at the moment of quoting — and holds what breaches it.
Customers quietly buying less
Revenue can decline before anyone notices. PIE watches every account’s pattern and raises the decline while there is still a relationship to save.
Four things your desk can do once it connects
Each one is arithmetic on your own records, computed the same way every time, and stamped with the policy version that judged it. Named accounts, each seeing what their role allows.
Control
Control every quote before it leaves
Your policy sets the floor per line, and PIE applies it at the moment of quoting rather than in a report afterwards. A breach doesn’t send quietly — it routes for sign-off, and the sign-off is on record with the policy version and catalog edition that produced it.
- Per-line margin floors, from your own policy
- Breaches held for a named approver, never sent
- Append-only record — last quarter’s price still explains itself
Speed
Answer an RFQ the day it arrives
Drop a customer’s enquiry in as they wrote it — a pasted email, a line of WhatsApp — and PIE reads it into quote lines and resolves each code against your catalog. Where a code has no exact match it ranks alternatives on the attributes it decoded — the dimensions and the material spec — deterministically, and abstains when nothing discriminates rather than inventing one.
- Pasted enquiry to priced lines, in one pass
- Your suppliers’ nomenclature decoded, coverage measured against your own catalog
- A scored suggestion is never promoted to an identity
Retention
See the accounts going quiet
Signals from your own numbers — margin drift, customer decline, payments slipping — each written up in plain words and each traceable to the figures that raised it. A short list of accounts, not a dashboard to go and interrogate.
- Detectors run over persisted rows, never over a model’s guess
- Every signal opens into the rows beneath it
- Thresholds are yours, versioned, and editable
Evidence
Show the board what it was worth
The value ledger counts what the platform actually changed — quote lines held to a floor, declines raised in time — carrying the operands each figure was computed from, so any number opens into the lines that produced it. Section E is about the parts it refuses to count.
- Every figure re-derivable from your own rows
- A month with no detection reads UNKNOWN, not zero
- What could not be measured prints above what could
Three people, three screens, one set of numbers
What each role can see is enforced by the server, not hidden in the browser — the fields are absent from the response, so there is nothing to read out of a network tab.
You set the floors. You see everything.
Cost, margin and the policy behind every decision — plus the ledger of what the platform was worth, with the gaps printed before the good news. Change the margin policy and every row computed under the old one still says which one judged it.
Quote confidently, without ever seeing cost.
The floor, the recommended price and this customer’s own history — enough to negotiate well, and no cost or margin field anywhere in the response. The guardrail travels with the quote instead of living in a manager’s head.
Decide in one screen, on the record.
A held line arrives with cost, floor and recommended price on it, and the rule that stopped it named. Your sign-off is append-only and carries the threshold version that was in force when you gave it.
Connect, look back, then decide.
Most of the work is deciding your own margin floors — not fighting software.
Connect your books
Link Zoho Books — or NetSuite, Business Central, Acumatica, Prophet 21 or Sage — and the first pull reads 18 months, from the first day of that month: customers, items, invoices and bills, plus payments and orders where the system exposes them. Set an earlier date before it runs and it reads from there instead.
See what your history already holds
PIE reads the history it has just pulled and shows the accounts that were quietly declining and the margins that drifted — and how much of your book it could not judge, before what it found. Below-floor quoting is measured from the quotes you price here, so that arrives as you use it.
Decide with the numbers on
Set your floors, add your catalog, and quote. Every figure on every screen from here is arithmetic over your own rows, openable down to the operands — including the ones that say the platform found nothing.
A ledger of what this platform was worth. Including when it was nothing.
Every intervention PIE claims credit for is arithmetic over rows your quote desk already wrote, carrying the operands it was computed from — so you can open any figure and re-derive it. What makes it worth reading is what it refuses to do.
An empty month says UNKNOWN, not zero
“Nothing was detected” and “no detection ran” are the same silence from outside and mean opposite things, so the ledger refuses to pick one. A measured zero is reported as a zero; an absence is reported as an absence.
Time saved is counted, never priced
Approvals turned round and quotes priced come back as counts with no money figure anywhere near them. Your business holds no hourly rate, and multiplying a count by an invented one is a made-up number that happens to have been computed carefully.
The gaps sit above the good news
What the platform could not measure is printed before what it did — on the renewal screen, where the incentive runs the other way. Return on investment stays UNKNOWN until you type in what you are paying; PIE will not assume its own figure.
The card at the top of this page is one worked line: 200 units asked at $41.20 against a floor of $44.80. Held to that floor it is $720, from a single line. The ledger would count exactly that and not the $1,500 the recommended price would have made, because clearing a floor by more than it asked for is your judgement, not ours.
What you own — and we can prove it
Your ERP stays yours. PIE works on top of it — and each of these is a mechanism in the product you can test, not a policy-page promise.
Your data. Export any time, erase provably.
One export, everything your organization owns, whenever the owner asks for it. Erase and your tenant key is destroyed, which makes the ciphertext written under it inert wherever it lives — live tables, replicas and backups alike. What was never encrypted stays readable, and the signed receipt names both halves rather than the flattering one; you can verify it yourself.
Your catalog. Decoded for you, for you alone.
Your decoded catalog is your property and exports with your data. It is never shared with, shown to, or reused for any other customer.
Your exit. Off-ramps defined, not discovered.
Stop paying and nothing is deleted: quoting, margin floors and approvals carry on for one connected company, and the decision layer waits until you subscribe again. Leave properly and your data goes with you in a format you can read — the decoded catalog included, because it is yours.
See it on your own numbers
Tell us what you run and we will come back to arrange a working session — the quote desk, your margin floors and the look-back over your own history, in the time it takes to price a real enquiry. What it would cost is a conversation we have after that, when we know what your setup is.
Tell us about your business
How many companies you run, what each of them sits on, and what you are trying to fix. It reaches a person, not a sequence — we read every one of these ourselves and come back at the address you give, usually within a working day.
No card, no account, nothing charged, and nothing connected to your ERP — this sends us a message and nothing else.
- 30–45 minutes, with whoever prices your quotes
- A real enquiry of yours, priced on the desk in front of you
- Your margin policy, set up as you would actually set it
- The look-back — what your own history holds, and what it cannot say
- No connection to your books until you decide to make one
Your books already know where the margin went.
PIE turns that history into better commercial decisions — and reports what that was worth.