ProEnergy Supply LLC (PES) launches IVAN (Intelligent Virtual Agentic Network), a patent-pending AI procurement agent and Neutral Intelligence Proxy Network, giving independent wholesale distributors control of the same closed-loop agentic infrastructure Amazon and Home Depot built for themselves. More than $1 billion in distributor revenue is already under LOI or binding agreement with the company. PES filed 49 patent claims in early 2026, with prosecution led by Foley and Lardner LLP.
In 1996, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, published a book that shaped a generation of business leaders. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Satya Nadella studied his philosophy obsessively: "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Wholesale distribution is at this strategic inflection point of change. Industries shift. Either adapt or get bypassed.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 90% of B2B buying will be intermediated by AI agents, pushing more than $15 trillion of B2B spend through AI agent exchanges. In the $2.1 trillion U.S. wholesale distribution market, machine-readable distributors will capture those orders. Others will be bypassed, with no visibility into the transactions they never had a chance to compete for.
Agentic AI does not negotiate. It routes.
If your business is still managing special pricing, ship-and-debit programs, and rebates through manual processes, your company is invisible to a buyer's AI agent. If the agent cannot see you, it will not consider you, and the order routes elsewhere without warning. You never even had a chance to compete for the order.
This is happening now. AI procurement agents scraping digital catalogs and online storefronts see list prices, stock, and lead times. They are blind to what PES calls Immovable Values: your negotiated pricing, credit terms, tiered rebate programs, manufacturer authorizations, and the proprietary commercial data that defines your competitive identity. IVAN makes that sovereign data visible to AI agents under your permission, control, and logic.
Amazon and Home Depot are competing to own the infrastructure that routes the purchase. Amazon has built agentic commerce infrastructure - a closed ecosystem where its own AI purchasing agents operate - while simultaneously blocking third-party AI agents from accessing its platform. Home Depot has committed more than $23 billion to build a network of professional distribution branches with AI-powered procurement tools designed to intercept project spend before an order ever reaches an independent distributor. For independent wholesale distributors, this is not commoditization of a product. It is commoditization of the purchasing decision itself.
Neither giant can build that infrastructure for you. The Immovable Values that define your commercial identity - earned across decades of negotiation - do not exist in any public catalog, open network, or competitor database. No AI agent can scrape them. No competitor can replicate them. They belong exclusively to you. That is precisely why we created IVAN.
"Amazon and Home Depot can buy branches and build protocols, but they cannot buy thirty years of earned trust, negotiated pricing, and manufacturer relationships. IVAN makes that trust machine-readable. That is how wholesale distribution drives revenue in the agentic economy."
Christian Siebens, CEO - ProEnergy Supply LLC
How IVAN Works
IVAN is a patent-pending AI procurement and Neutral Intelligence Proxy Network built for wholesale distribution. At IVAN's core is the commercial data that defines your competitive identity: Special Pricing Agreements, ship-and-debit records, customer credit terms, branch inventory, manufacturer authorizations, rebate tiers, and geofenced territory assignments. These Immovable Values live exclusively inside your own systems. IVAN connects with your existing business systems, makes that data machine-readable, and surfaces it only to the agents and buyers you explicitly credential and approve.
IVAN features a scoring engine that drives every deterministic recommendation. It makes no model call. No distributor pays to rank higher. No algorithm reinterprets your agreements. What the agent receives is a ranked recommendation produced by arithmetic over clean, permissioned, validated data. The result is auditable and reproducible. The architecture is built so that no participant - including PES itself - can influence which distributor earns the order.
"Distributors already have the competitive advantages they need. The problem is those advantages live in fragmented ERP systems that AI agents cannot read. IVAN makes that data machine-readable, under the distributor's terms and control. Neutrality is not a company policy. It is the architecture."
Tom Boguess, CTO - ProEnergy Supply LLC
Agentic Procurement
When a contractor's AI agent submits a request through IVAN's credentialed network, IVAN applies your negotiated pricing, confirms inventory and credit availability, and routes the purchase order into your systems in milliseconds. Your authorized channel, margin, and merchant-of-record status remain intact.
Self-Improving Intelligence
IVAN ingests your commercial data as its foundation, then learns from buyer behavior with every transaction. Every order makes the next recommendation faster and more accurate - and that intelligence compounds with every distributor that joins the network.
Your Brand, Not PES
IVAN can be white-labeled and deployed as your AI procurement agent under your brand. To the buyer, it looks and feels like a closed-loop network with the distributor they already trust. The neutral proxy belongs to PES. The relationship, the intelligence, and the margin stay with you.
"Independent distributors cannot out-spend Amazon or Home Depot, but they can out-position them. IVAN turns decades of earned relationships into a 24-hour agentic advantage, without displacing a single sales rep or disrupting a single customer."
Brian C. Boguess, CSO - ProEnergy Supply LLC
Market Traction and Charter Availability
More than $1 billion in distributor revenue is now under LOI or binding agreement with PES. The company secured an exclusive strategic partnership with Google-backed OpenSolar, serving more than 28,000 U.S. solar professionals. PES filed 49 patent claims in early 2026 with prosecution strategy led by Foley and Lardner LLP, ranked the third-largest U.S. patent firm by patents secured. USPTO Provisional Application No. 64/010,719 was filed in early 2026.
Every dollar your company has invested in a digital catalog or e-commerce storefront was built for a human buyer who browsed, clicked, and searched. That buyer is now delegating procurement to an AI agent. IVAN is not another technology investment that risks the same fate. IVAN runs on a transaction fee percentage based on GMV, meaning you only pay when you earn an order. No rebuilt tech stack. No upfront cost. No sunk cost risk.
Reserve Your Charter Seat
A limited number of Charter Member positions remain open for independent wholesale distributors in electrical, solar, plumbing, HVAC, and related verticals ahead of IVAN's Q4 2026 production launch. The distributors who wait will onboard behind those who did not.
Contact Us to Reserve Your SeatAbout ProEnergy Supply LLC
Founded by wholesale industry veterans, ProEnergy Supply LLC is defining a new category in B2B agentic commerce with IVAN, the patent-pending AI procurement and Neutral Intelligence Proxy Network purpose-built for the pre-sale and procurement moment where distributor relationships are either machine-readable or invisible. Through its closed-loop AI data architecture, PES gives every independent wholesale distributor in North America the same agentic infrastructure Amazon and Home Depot built for themselves.
www.proenergysupply.comPatent-pending technology | USPTO Provisional Application No. 64/010,719 | Foley and Lardner LLP
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