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Manufacturers & distributors · Southern California

Your systems should talk to each other. We make them.

I help manufacturers and distributors eliminate manual work and revenue leaks between marketing, sales, CRM, ERP, e-commerce, and customer service, then use AI and automation to make those processes run on their own.

Fixed price. Founder-delivered. On-site in LA, Orange County, and the Inland Empire.
If any of this sounds familiar

The work nobody was hired to do

Orders and quotes get rekeyed

A PO arrives as a PDF or sits in a customer portal. Someone reads it, types it into the ERP, and calls the warehouse. Every order, every day.

Sales, ops, and accounting run on different truths

The CRM says one thing, the ERP another, and the real answer lives in a spreadsheet on someone's desktop.

Nobody knows how fast you respond

A lead comes in. It is answered when someone gets to it. No one measures how long that takes, or what it costs.

Where is that document?

Packing lists, invoices, and drawings are spread across a shared drive, three inboxes, and the ERP. Finding one takes a phone call.

Products that lose money keep getting sold

Freight, returns, and handling eat the margin on certain SKUs, and nobody sees it until year-end.

Freight dates are retyped from emails

Forwarders send ETD and ETA by email or portal. Logistics copies them into a tracker by hand, and they are often wrong.

Services

What we do

Connect the systems that don't talk to each other
Automate the work your team retypes every day
Put AI on the paperwork: orders, invoices, inquiries
Run marketing end to end, from campaign to closed order
Fractional CMO and fractional CIO services
What we build

Fixed-price projects, each one already in daily use somewhere

Every build includes on-site kickoff, testing on your data, training, written procedures, and 30 days of follow-up. Hosted options include monitoring, backups, and free change hours each month.

OrdersOrder Intake to ERP

Reads customer POs from email, portals, or EDI, validates SKUs and pricing, and creates the sales order. Exceptions go to a queue; everything else just lands.

$18,000 · hosted from $1,500/mo
LogisticsLogistics Tracking Automation

Logs into your forwarders' portals and reads their emails and PDFs, then pulls ETD/ETA and shipment data into your tracker, dashboard, or spreadsheet.

$12,000 for up to 3 forwarders · $1,000/mo hosted
DocumentsUnified Intelligence Hub

Connects shared drives, mailboxes, ERP records, and spreadsheets into one searchable app with OCR, an order-360 view, and exception reports.

$20,000 · $1,500/mo hosted
SalesSales Agent

An email assistant that knows your catalog, inventory, and website, so prospects get a data-rich reply in seconds instead of a day.

$9,000 · $750/mo hosted
SalesSales Team Analytics

Measures how long each rep takes to respond to leads, from their real mailbox, and lets the sales manager see the emails and the clock.

$8,000 · $500/mo hosted
MarginMargin Leak Finder

Pairs purchase lines to sales lines and lists every product sold below true cost, emailed as a spreadsheet on a schedule.

$4,000, or included in the audit

Cloud systems with an API: NetSuite, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Acumatica, QuickBooks Online, Salesforce, HubSpot, Shopify, Smartsheet, EDI. If it has an API, we connect it.

Pricing

Three steps, one price each

Step 1Audit$3,000

Two weeks, on-site. Credited to your first build.

  • Leak map: every manual handoff, timed and priced
  • Systems map: what talks to what
  • 12-week roadmap with fixed prices
  • $10,000 for an org-wide, 20+ person audit
Step 2 · most clientsFixed-price build$8k–$20k per build

One workflow, end to end. Priced above.

  • On-site kickoff and milestones
  • Training and written procedures
  • 30 days of follow-up included
  • Hosted from $500/mo with free change hours
Step 3Fractional CMO + CIO$7,500 / month

Month to month.

  • We own the systems and marketing roadmap
  • Campaign to closed order
  • New automations and AI rollouts
  • Monthly review with leadership

Hourly, if you prefer it: $225. Most clients don't, because fixed price puts the risk on us.

Why Athlon Revenue

A practitioner, not a vendor

Built inside a manufacturer

The founder runs marketing and business systems inside a Southern California manufacturer today. Order intake, AP and invoicing automation, supplier-portal integration, freight tracking, a 136,000-document search engine: all built, all in daily use.

Cloud systems with an API

We do not resell software. We work with what you own and only recommend a change when the numbers say so.

On-site, founder-delivered

Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire. The person you meet is the person who builds it.

Marketing and operations, one brain

Most firms do the front office or the back office. Lead-to-cash is one flow. We treat it that way.

Next step

A 30-minute working session at your site

Bring the one process that annoys you most. We will map it on the whiteboard and tell you what it is costing you before we leave.

Book the session

[email protected]

Or start the audit

$3,000 · two weeks · credited to your first build