Built for distributors and manufacturers

Get AI working.
Fast.

We help chemical distributors and manufacturers put AI to work in weeks. Lower costs, higher margin, and a team that actually uses it. 25 years inside the industry.

25+ yrs experience
Detroit
Industrial chemical infrastructure
Industries served
Chemicals · Ingredients · Specialty Distribution · HI&I · Industrial
As seen on LinkedIn New · Virtual Staff

We run this company on a virtual staff we never pay.

A virtual CEO, a research analyst, a writer who sounds like Pete, an ops agent that flags what's slipping. Each one has a name, a job description, and a human sign-off. It's how the work gets done here, and it's now a subscription: we build your staff, coach your people on running them, and maintain them with you.

On the org chart
  • Virtual CEO
  • Research analyst
  • Writer, trained on Pete's voice
  • Operations and follow-up
  • And we keep hiring
Who we work with

If one of these sounds like you, we should talk.

01
Everyone's talking AI. You haven't started.
“Our competitors are already announcing pilots.”

The board is asking about AI. Customers are asking about AI. You know you need to move, and nobody inside has the time or the map to get it started. Every quarter you wait, the gap widens.

02
You're paying for AI nobody uses.
“We bought the licenses. They sit there.”

The subscriptions are live and the team still works the way it did last year. The training never happened. The money goes out every month and the hours never come back.

03
Manual work is eating your margin.
“Every new customer feels like a fire drill.”

Rekeyed orders, spreadsheet reports, quotes built by hand. AI can take that work off your team today. Every month it doesn't is payroll spent on work a machine should be doing.

What we work on

Three areas where the work earns its keep.

01

AI on the Data You Already Have

Your systems hold years of orders, quotes, and pricing that nobody looks at. We put AI to work on that data where it sits. No replacement project, no migration, no waiting on IT. Useful answers in the first week.

Outcome: Answers in minutes, hours of manual work gone
02

AI for Sales

AI working on your sales data. Pre-call briefs, wallet share analysis, prospecting intelligence, product expansion opportunities by account. We build the tools your sales team actually uses, and they run them without us.

Outcome: More doors opened, more margin captured
03

Adoption That Sticks

Training, internal champions, guardrails, and agents your team runs on their own. We get AI into the daily work in weeks and it stays there after we leave the room.

Outcome: AI as part of how the company works, in weeks
A.I.R · AI Readiness, scored

Score your AI readiness in two steps.

Each step tells you exactly what to do next.

Services

Diagnose. Decide. Execute.

The A.I.RTM Assessment tells you where you stand. The A.I.R Roadmap turns that into a prioritized plan. The advisory gets it done.

25 years in the room

Times have changed. Sticking your head in the ground hoping it will blow over is not a business plan.

Pete Messina, Founder · Real Data Solutions

Ready to see where you stand?

Your competitors are not waiting, and neither should the savings. Start with the A.I.RTM Assessment or book a 15-minute call. No pitch. We figure out together whether we're a fit.