Industry Playbook • B2B Distributors, Wholesalers & Portals

Keep Technical Specs Public for AI Procurement Agents—While Protecting Contract Pricing

B2B buyers research part cross-references, case-pack quantities, and compliance standards in AI search long before logging into a customer portal. Forge Commerce (.si) makes your technical catalog quotable across all 8 GEO Report categories and routes wholesale RFQs into Foundry OMS & MCP.

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B2B Commerce GEO Playbook — Architecture Summary

How does Forge Commerce optimize B2B distributor and wholesale catalogs for AI procurement?

Forge Commerce (.si) solves the core B2B ecommerce dilemma—balancing public AI discoverability with private contract pricing. It publishes machine-readable technical specifications (_forge_aeo_specs), part numbers (MPN/GTIN/SKU), case-pack quantities, and lead-time rules in visible HTML and Schema.org JSON-LD, organizes product lines into parent Product Families with inherited FAQs, and routes authenticated or custom quote requests through Foundry OMS & MCP and The Viking Stack CRM.

Pricing Architecture: Public Technical Specs + Gated Contract / RFQ Pricing
Large-Catalog Scoring: 1 + ln(members) Template Clustering
Quote & ERP Hub: Foundry OMS + Digit Software ERP + WooCommerce/Shopify
Outbound Expansion: Valkyrie Assist Multi-Provider Account Enrichment

Public Specs, Gated Contract Tiers

Stop hiding your entire product catalog behind a login wall. Keep dimensions, compatibility tables, and MPN cross-references crawlable for AI agents while gating customer-specific tier pricing.

MOQ, Case-Pack & Lead-Time Schema

Improve your GEO Report Commerce and Actionability scores by structuring minimum order quantities, pallet tiers, and stock availability clearly for both humans and MCP buyer agents.

Inbound Pulse + Outbound Valkyrie Assist

Pair inbound AI referral tracking in Journeys & Pulse with proactive account enrichment in Valkyrie Assist—graduating qualified wholesale buyers into The Viking Stack CRM.

B2B Commerce FAQ

Answers on Gated Pricing, Large SKU Counts & RFQ Routing

How can B2B distributors expose technical specs to AI agents while keeping wholesale pricing gated?

Forge separates public technical facts from account-specific commercial terms. Your storefront publishes complete HTML specification tables (_forge_aeo_specs), compatibility matrices, MOQ/case-pack rules, and stock status in Product JSON-LD while routing contract pricing and volume quotes through gated account portals or Foundry OMS › Requests.

How does template clustering in the GEO Report handle 10,000+ SKU B2B catalogs?

Instead of averaging 10,000 repetitive SKU pages equally, Forge's GEO Report groups URLs by structural template and applies log-dampened weighting (1 + ln(members)), ensuring your category hubs, cross-reference guides, and flagship Product Families receive appropriate diagnostic focus.

How do B2B teams combine inbound GEO readiness with outbound prospecting?

B2B operators use Journeys & Pulse to detect AI-referred account visits and stitch RFQ forms into The Viking Stack CRM, while using Valkyrie Assist to enrich target distributor or OEM rosters across Claude, GPT-6, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok.

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