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AI automation · Florida
AI that removes a step, not a demo.
Futurise builds AI automation into the operations software of Florida distributors and manufacturers: orders read out of email and PDF attachments, catalog and item data cleaned up, the repetitive replies and quotes drafted inside the screens your team already uses. Anything an agent does that changes stock, a price or an order stops as a draft a named person approves.
Futurise is a remote studio with a US line, +1 (954) 469-9764, answered at any hour. We have no Florida office and don't pretend to; we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it.
See it first, on fictional data: orders.futurise.studio is a wholesale ordering portal and factory.futurise.studio a production tracker.
The pitch you keep hearing is a chatbot on your website. Your customers are placing repeat orders, not asking questions, so that solves a problem you don't have. The four places AI genuinely takes work off a Florida wholesaler's desk are boring: intake, item data, drafts and the daily read.
Intake is the big one. A distributor's customers do not all order the same way — some use the portal, some email a PDF purchase order, some send a photo of a handwritten sheet from the back of a restaurant. Someone reads each of these and types it in. A model reads the attachment, matches each line to your item file and your customer's history, and produces a draft order with anything it could not match flagged for a person. The typing is the step that disappears.
The rule underneath all of it is not technical. Any action that touches stock, a price or an order stops as a draft, a named person approves it, and the approval keeps the name and the date. That is what makes it software your team trusts rather than software they quietly double-check by hand.
Where it breaks
The four things we keep finding.
The AI pilot with its own login
It lived outside the system where the work happens. Adoption was near zero by week three.
The agent that was wrong once
At 4pm on a Friday, in a way nobody saw until the truck was loaded. After that nobody trusted any of it.
Forecasting as the first project
Needs clean history. The history was not clean. It failed first and took the budget with it.
Accuracy instead of exception rate
94% of lines right sounds good. The number that turns into hours is how many orders came through needing no human at all.
What we build
One slice first, then the next.
The one slice of your order flow costing you hours today: an ordering portal, an order desk or a production tracker. Then the next.
Order intake from email and PDF
Reads the attachment, matches lines to your real item file and the customer's history, drafts the order, flags what it could not match. The original stays attached.
Item and catalog clean-up
Descriptions normalized, duplicates merged, pack sizes pulled out of description fields — with a person approving the merges.
Drafts inside your screens
Quote follow-ups, out-of-stock notices with the substitute suggested, the same email fourteen times a day — drafted where the work happens, sent by a person.
The daily read
What changed since yesterday: orders below their usual size, the Tuesday customer who didn't order, items short against orders already on the books.
On the ground
What’s actually different here.
Every local fact carries its source and its year.
Florida's 2,937 grocery and related-product wholesalers employ 64,187 people — the category where orders still arrive as email, PDF and phone.
2,216 freight-forwarding and customs-brokerage establishments operate in Florida, 1,110 of them in Miami-Dade — the paperwork-heavy end of distribution where document reading is the work.
14,341 manufacturing establishments, 13,580 of them under 100 employees: the size where a production status board is still a whiteboard (computed from the Census size classes).
Straight answers
The questions, answered up front.
Do we need to replace our ERP to use AI?
No, and you generally should not try. The intake, item-data and drafting work sits alongside whatever system you run today and writes into it. Replacing an ERP to get AI is how a six-week project becomes an eighteen-month one.
What is the biggest risk with AI agents in a distribution business?
An agent silently changing stock, a price or an order. The mitigation is structural, not technical: every action that touches those three things stops as a draft that a named person approves, and the approval is recorded with the name and the date.
Where should a Florida distributor start?
With the single highest-volume intake path — usually emailed purchase orders from your top twenty customers — automated end to end with approval, run for a month alongside the manual process. Count two numbers: orders that needed no human, and minutes the approval took compared to typing. If those are good, extend it. If not, you have spent a month and learned something true.
What does it cost?
There is no price list, because there is no standard build. You get a fixed price in writing after a 20-minute call, before any work starts, covering exactly the scope you agree to. Most first builds go live in two to four weeks, training is part of the build, and 30 days of care after launch are included. To get your number, call +1 (954) 469-9764 or book at futurise.studio/book .
Do you have an office in Florida?
No, and we won't pretend to. Futurise is a remote studio with a US line answered at any hour, and we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it. Your build runs at a live link you can watch from the first week, so distance doesn't decide whether it works.
Bring the step that breaks.
Twenty minutes with the person who builds, on a US line, any hour. Not in Florida? The same builds, for distributors anywhere in the US.
shivam@futurise.studio · any time, day or night