2026 B2B Platform

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Stuck Between Vendors, Agencies, and Internal Teams

Get clarity on your next move with a FREE GPS Assessment

Digital transformation is overwhelming. You’re looking at platforms, talking to vendors, trying to figure out the right path forward. Everyone’s telling you something different.

You’re dealing with:

Conflicting vendor promises and confusing demos
Pressure to make decisions without full clarity
The nagging feeling you might be missing something critical
Uncertainty about where to even start

We’ve been there. We’ve guided many distributors and manufacturers through this exact journey. We know how complex B2B really is—and the time it takes to get the right answers.

Why a GPS Assessment?

Think of it as a compass check. We’ll help you understand your current position and what path makes sense for YOUR situation.

We’ve seen distributors & manufacturers struggle with platform selection — and customer adoption — and want to do everything we can to help in 2026.

So we’ve engineered the FREE GPS Assessment to help you locate and start the journey to your next digital platform RIGHT.

What Your GPS Assessment Includes

Your GPS Assessment includes a FREE 30-minute call with your team and a follow-up assessment to help your team with…

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Current Location

We’ll help identify opportunities and risks, based on what we’ve seen guiding others through similar journeys:
→ Necessary capabilities specific to eCommerce, PIM or anything else in the tech stack
→ Account, catalog and other complexities that will need to be accounted for
→ Solving for business logic & processes that will define success

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Potential Hazards Ahead

We’ll identify the obstacles that could derail selecting the right platform, including:
→ Customer adoption impediments
→ Data and process requirements
→ Challenges faced by others in similar situations

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Optimal Route Navigation

We’ll map your most efficient path to the right platform, including:
→ The ‘gotchas’ you’ll want to avoid
→ Platform Logic Alignment – how to ensure the platform works HOW you need
→ What you should do before ever getting a demo

Why This is Different

We’re practitioners. We’ve done this ourselves, understand B2B complexity and know what it takes to get it right.

We’re don’t sell software or implementations. We don’t care what you choose—we care that you choose what’s right for YOUR business.

The data drives everything we do. Our recommendations come from real platform selections, and 45,000 data points, not vendor marketing.

Your Guides

Jay Schneider — 15 years helping B2B companies selected technology, creator of Platform Genius platform selection tool, certified B2B eCommerce Association coach,

Sam Aldinger — Supplier & product data leader at Fastenal, PIM platform lead, certified B2B eCommerce Association coach.