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Technology

Built for the field. Refined for the aftermarket.

The Tromml technology stack is purpose-built for distribution, capturing what happens in the field, refining raw activity into structured intelligence, and putting it in front of the people who can act on it. Not adapted from another industry. Built from the ground up for this one.

How it works

Capture. Refine. Act.

Minecart captures what happens with your customers. AI Refinery turns it into signal. Headframe puts that signal in front of the people who act on it.

Minecart

In the field

Live

The mobile app reps use to log every visit, voice note, and conversation.

0:24

Walked the floor with Frank, wants pricing on the new endcap before Q3.

Northland DistributionFollow-up due

AI Refinery

The engine

Always on

Connects raw activity with your existing data and refines it into structured signal.

Signal graphAlways on
CRM activity
Field notes
ERP records
Email threads
AI
Account signal
Risk flags
Next-best action

Headframe

For managers

The dashboard where managers see what's happening and what to act on.

Priority accountsToday

Northland Distribution

Follow-up due

82

Cascade Auto

Competitor risk

61

Bayline Parts

Renewal window

74

Real-time capture

Activity logs the moment it happens, phone, browser, or offline.

AI that understands context

Refines messy activity into accounts, products, and intent.

Actionable insights

Routes the right call to the right person, not another inbox.

The three products

Built so nothing falls between the cracks.

Minecart

The rep's field companion

The rep captures it. Nothing slips through.

Minecart is the mobile app reps use in the field, voice, text, or tap, offline or on. Every visit, every conversation, logged the moment it happens.

Sales rep dictating a field note into the Minecart app while sitting in their car

AI Refinery

The engine in the middle

Raw activity becomes signal. Automatically.

AI Refinery sits between the field and the dashboard, it structures notes, extracts follow-ups, and pulls in data from your existing stack. What reaches the manager is already refined.

Headframe

The manager's command center

Managers see everything that matters, right now.

Headframe surfaces account health, coverage gaps, and priority actions, built from what reps are actually doing. Coaching becomes specific. Decisions stop waiting for the next report.

Manager reviewing follow-up tasks in the Headframe web dashboard

The refinery in detail

How AI Refinery works.

AI Refinery is the intelligence layer that’s always on, automatically processing what comes in from Minecart and connecting it to what already lives in your data stack.

  1. Ingest

    Raw field notes, voice recordings, and activity data flow in from Minecart. Data from your CRM, ERP, and existing systems flows in from integrations. Call transcripts feed in directly.

  2. Refine

    AI Refinery structures unstructured notes, extracts action items and follow-up commitments, identifies named entities (accounts, products, competitors, brands), and matches activity to the right account.

  3. Connect

    Refined field intelligence is connected to your existing data, account history, sales performance, product information, to build a complete picture of what's happening with each account and across your territory.

  4. Surface

    Structured signals reach the right people at the right time. Priority accounts to managers. Account briefs to reps before visits. Competitive patterns to leadership. Follow-up risks before they become lost accounts.

Integrations

Fits the tools your team already uses.

AI Refinery connects to the systems where your data already lives. What flows into Minecart and Headframe is richer because of what’s already in your stack, CRM history, ERP data, email context, and more.

  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • SAP
  • NetSuite
  • Excel / Sheets
  • Email
  • Custom ERP

With SecureAI Chat

Your intelligence, connected to AI that knows your business.

Once AI Refinery has structured your field intelligence, SecureAI Chat gives your team a private workspace to query it directly, without your competitive data going into ChatGPT.

Ask questions about your market. Draft follow-ups from visit context. Prep for line reviews with real field signal. All in a private environment that’s configured for your industry, your accounts, and your terminology.

Built for the aftermarket

Purpose-built for distribution. Not adapted from something else.

Most sales intelligence tools were built for SaaS or enterprise software companies and adapted for distribution. Tromml was built for the aftermarket from the ground up.

AI Refinery understands the structure of distribution relationships, the rep, the jobber, the installer, the buying group, the manufacturer rep. It understands product categories, brand hierarchies, and the dynamics of a field sales motion in this industry.

That specificity is what makes the outputs useful, not generic insights, but intelligence that maps to how your business actually works.

Built with the aftermarket

The companies that know this industry are already at the table.

Trusted by top automotive brands

  • Shock Surplus
  • Temot
  • NexaMotion
  • OEG Parts
  • EquipmentShare
  • Auto-Wares

Designed for members of

  • Auto Care Association
  • MEMA
  • SEMA
  • HDA Truck Pride
  • Vipar
  • APSG
  • Pronto Network
  • Federated
  • Alliance
MEMA Innovation Award Winner 2025MEMA Startup Challenge Winner 2024

One last thing

See the technology in action on your data.

Attach up to 50 call transcripts or 100 sales notes. We’ll run them through AI Refinery and show you what surfaces. Free. No commitment.