Built by operators, not career consultants.
Twenty-five years in automotive aftermarket and parts distribution — purchasing, inventory, assortment, and product catalog data. Not advising on those numbers. Owning them.
That is the whole thesis. The people who are good at fixing this work have usually been the ones on the hook when it broke.
25+ years
Purchasing, inventory, pricing, assortment, catalog data and e-commerce — on the operating side.
$50M – $1B
The range of businesses whose data and decisions we have worked inside.
ACES & PIES
Fitment and product content at national distributor scale. Better data means fewer wrong-part returns and fewer delistings.
Principal-led
Senior operator attention from the first call to handover. Specialists added when scope requires.
It all points at the same three things: fewer dollars stuck in the wrong inventory, fewer wrong parts going out the door, and numbers your leadership team will actually act on.
What operating experience actually buys you
Anyone can read a textbook on safety stock. The difference shows up in the details nobody writes down.
We have been the buyer
We know what it is like to defend a purchase order to a CFO, and to be handed a forecast nobody believes. Recommendations that ignore that reality do not get implemented.
Catalog at real scale
Managing product data for a national warehouse distributor is a different problem than cleaning a thousand SKUs. Coverage, qualifiers, interchange and receiver requirements at volume.
Fitment built by hand
We have built application data for e-commerce on contract. When we tell you a coverage number is soft, it is because we know exactly how those records get made.
Lean teams are the norm
Most of this experience comes from places without a spare analyst or a spare developer. Everything we design assumes the person running it also has a day job.
We build, not just advise
Dashboards, planning tools, automation and internal applications — actually built and put into use, not specified in a deck and left for someone else.
Both sides of the table
Distributor and manufacturer, buying and selling, and the e-commerce channel underneath both. The obligations differ; the underlying data discipline does not.
The short version
Principal-led, by design
Amped Up Intelligence is deliberately not a firm with a bench to keep busy. The person who scopes your engagement is the person who runs the analysis and sits in the room. You will not be sold by someone senior and handed to someone junior.
When scope calls for more hands — systems administration and integration, data engineering, catalog production — we bring in specialists we have worked with directly. You will know who is on your project before the work starts, not after.
You do not have to unlock anything. Send the export, and we will tell you straight whether there is something worth doing.