AI Sales for Wholesale Distributors Venture

FutureSight is seeking an experienced, visionary Founding CEO to lead the launch of a new AI Sales platform explicitly designed for wholesale distributor sales reps.

Industrial wholesale distributors serving the HVAC, electrical, and plumbing markets face a perfect storm: experienced sales reps are retiring with decades of product knowledge, causing 6-12 months of productivity loss per retirement, while manual quoting can take hours to days when speed determines who wins deals. Distributors turn down 80% of RFPs due to capacity constraints, struggling to manage 100,000+ SKU catalogues and hire staff fast enough. This $2B TAM is growing at 25-30% annually with no dominant player.

This problem excites us because it’s pure execution.
High RFQ volume. Repetitive quoting. Time-critical responses. Clear win-loss outcomes. - in an emerging category with no clear winner.

And yet, distributors still rely on tribal knowledge and manual Word-and-Excel workflows—forcing sales teams to spend hours per quote, turn away demand they can’t process, and lose deals simply because they weren’t fast enough.

Our belief is simple:

AI should own this work—capturing institutional knowledge, generating quotes in real time, and guiding sales decisions—so distributors can respond instantly, scale revenue without adding headcount, and compete on speed instead of watching opportunity slip away.

As the Founding CEO, you will:

Win customers by running pilots, shaping pricing, and validating retention + expansion.
Work with FutureSight’s product and engineering pod to launch your V1.
Hire your founding team and set the cultural foundation. And Lead the seed round with FutureSight’s initial investment.

What FutureSight brings to the table:

We have validated the problem — You will enter this venture with a proven market need.
We have studio bench strength including designers, engineers, growth marketers, and fundraising pros who are embedded from Day 1.
We bring capital commitment with initial pre-seed funding for early hires and building the MVP with potential for follow-on funding, plus access to our investor and advisor network.

If you are as excited as we are about solving this problem, we want to hear from you. Feel free to read through our FAQs about working in FutureSight’s venture studio, watch “What We Look for in an EIR”, or Apply to this opportunity.