For trade, wholesale & logistics businesses
Your sales grew. Your office is still doing everything by hand.
Mander finds where the hours are bleeding in your back office and builds systems that stop it — starting with a free walk-through of your operation. We diagnose first. We don’t sell software off a shelf.
I.Sound familiar
01
Orders typed in by hand
Customers send orders by email, phone and WhatsApp. Someone reads each one and keys it into the system. Every retype is minutes lost and a chance to get it wrong.
02
Fridays spent chasing money
Dozens of accounts on credit terms, and one person whose least favourite job is ringing round for payment. The polite chasing that never quite gets done costs real cash flow.
03
The inbox nobody can empty
Quotes, stock checks, delivery queries, paperwork — all landing in one shared inbox. The team answers the same questions all day while the phone keeps ringing.
None of this means anyone is doing a bad job. It means the business outgrew the office — and the office has been quietly paying for it in evenings and weekends.
II.How an engagement works
Diagnosis first. Then one fix at a time, in order of return.
- 1
We walk your operation
A day on your floor and in your office. We watch how an order actually moves — who touches it, where it waits, what gets retyped. No workshops, no slide decks.
- 2
You get a ranked plan
Every fix we found, in order: what it saves, what it costs, what it needs. The plan is yours to keep whether or not we build a single thing.
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We build number one first
The single highest-return fix, live in weeks. You see it pay for itself before anything else is even discussed.
III.What we typically find and build
Every operation is different. The time sinks rarely are.
Order entry that types itself
Emails and PDFs become clean orders in your system, checked by a person instead of typed by one.
Hours of retyping a day
Invoice chasing that never forgets
Polite, persistent, automatic — escalates on your rules and tells you who needs a human call.
The Friday ring-round
Quotes answered in minutes
Price, stock and availability drafted instantly from your own lists, sent after a quick once-over.
Next-day quote turnaround
Shipping paperwork, extracted
Bills of lading, customs forms and supplier invoices read automatically into the fields you need.
Manual data entry from PDFs
Sleeping customers, woken up
The accounts that quietly stopped ordering, spotted and re-approached before the competition gets there.
Revenue that slips away unnoticed
Your numbers on one page
Orders, cash owed, stock, deliveries — the figures you check daily, gathered for you every morning.
Chasing five systems for answers
These aren’t products on a shelf. They’re the shapes we most often find when we walk an operation — your plan will name the ones that are costing you money, ranked by return.
IV.Who’s behind it
Mander is run by Austin Mander.
Austin is the chief technology officer of an AI intelligence platform used daily by multi-billion-pound investment firms, where the systems he builds read thousands of documents a day. Mander exists because the same engineering, pointed at a working business’s back office, pays for itself embarrassingly fast.
You deal with the person who builds the thing — no account managers, no handoffs, no outsourcing.
V.Straight answers
What does the walk-through cost?+
Nothing. The visit and the ranked plan are free, and the plan is yours to keep either way. We only earn when you ask us to build something from it.
Will this disrupt my team?+
The walk-through is us watching and asking questions, not your staff filling in forms. Anything we later build runs alongside how you work today — nothing is ripped out.
What about our data?+
Your data stays yours. Systems we build run in your accounts, under your control, and we're happy to put that in writing. We never use your data for anything but your systems.
What does building something cost?+
It depends what we find, so the exact figure is in your plan. As a rule the first system costs less than the office hire you were about to make — and it doesn't hand in its notice.
How fast is the first system live?+
Weeks, not months. We build the top item on the plan first, precisely so you see it pay for itself early.
No cost. No obligation. The plan is yours either way.
Find out where your office’s time really goes.
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