Builders Merchants

Insulation and drylining merchants juggle board counts, coverage maths and volatile stock. OptiFlow automates the routine ordering and enquiry work on top of your existing systems.

OptiFlow puts an AI layer on top of your hire system so tool and plant hire desks can handle availability checks, bookings and off hire requests without extra staff.

Where OptiFlow pays back. Faster enquiries, fewer order errors, more captured demand and time given back to your team, all on top of the systems you already run.

Otis is the AI agent behind OptiFlow. It reads orders and enquiries, answers stock and price questions from live data, and builds orders in your existing systems.

How OptiFlow gets you live in weeks, not months. A simple onboarding path from proof of concept to full rollout, with no rip and replace and no big project.

How OptiFlow keeps your merchant and customer data safe. UK hosting, encryption, access control, GDPR alignment and a layer that reads your systems without replacing them.

Plain English definitions of the AI, automation and trade terms that matter to builders merchants, with links to how each one applies to your depot.

Automate the handling of gas data flows and UK Link exceptions on top of your existing systems, reducing manual effort and settlement risk for gas suppliers.

Automate the exceptions and query handling around smart meter data on top of your existing systems, so supplier operations teams spend less time firefighting.

A practical comparison for builders merchants weighing another counter hire against adding AI. Cost, capacity, risk and where each one wins.