AI for electrical distributors, tested on the POs and SPA claims you already worked.

Each job comes with its own answer key. A contractor PO has the order your team keyed from it. An SPA sale has the claim your rebate analyst filed and the manufacturer's reply: paid, short-paid or rejected. A proof of concept on either one is scored against work that already happened, so the grade comes from your own records rather than a demo.

Electrical orders are not catalog picks. One contractor PO can mix wire sold by the foot, a fitting whose suffix decides whether it is listed for wet locations, and fixtures named only by a type letter from the drawings. ERP vendors in this trade build for that: one that joined NAED in 2025 lists cut wire and reel tracking, lot billing and job management among its features.

Your item file is often the easier half. IDEA, founded in 1998 by NEMA and NAED, syndicates manufacturer product content and exchanges EDI documents for the electrical industry. If your item file loads from a feed like that, the catalog numbers on your side are already consistent. The harder half is the contractor's shorthand and the job it belongs to, and that is what the order test grades.

Special pricing is paid after the sale. The manufacturer bills you at into-stock cost, funds a lower price for one end user or project, and pays the difference only when you claim it. Electrical Trends has described customer-specific, customer-class and vertical-market SPAs, with each manufacturer running its own process and terms. Even the name shifts: NAED's 2007 task force said special price authorizations, also called rebates or shipping debits, while ABB's published policy says special price agreements.

One rule holds for both jobs: nothing leaves your building. No order posts to your ERP, no contractor hears from us, and no claim, portal upload or deduction goes to a manufacturer. The test returns drafts on a review sheet, and your reviewer compares them with what your team actually did.