DandoriFounding Client Program
Ten founding seats

You don't have systems.
You have people who remember.

Purchasing, reporting, vendor follow-up, intake, allocation — most multi-site operations run on a handful of people who remember how it's all meant to go. That works right up until someone is on holiday. Or leaves.

Dandori builds the AI systems that hold that knowledge instead — without adding headcount. Procurement is where we go deepest; it isn't where we stop. We're taking ten founding clients at half rate to build the first case studies.

This is for you if any of these are true

Built for multi-site operators running roughly 5–50 locations, where the operational work is real but informal, and full-time headcount to own it isn't justifiable yet.

The founding trade

It's a straight exchange, and worth being blunt about: Dandori is new and needs case studies more than it needs full margin on the first ten engagements. So the first ten clients get a materially better deal than anyone after them.

$2,000–$3,250 $3,500–$6,500 Operations Audit — includes AI Opportunity Design. Priced by site count. Founding rate is locked for any follow-on work, permanently.

What you get

  • ~50% off — held under NDA, since it isn't the public rate
  • Direct access to the person actually doing the work — no account manager
  • Real influence over what gets built, before the system hardens
  • Rates locked for life — founding clients are never repriced

What we ask

  • A reference — take an occasional call with a prospect
  • One case study — we do all the writing, and nothing publishes without your sign-off

That's the entire ask. No exclusivity, no minimum term, no auto-renew.

Full money-back guarantee

If at any point you're not happy with the work — any point, any reason — you get a full refund, the contract is torn up, and we part on good terms. No trial window, no conditions, no clawback. The point of the founding cohort is a genuinely good outcome on both sides, and that only works if the risk is ours.

What's behind it

Dandori is new. The experience isn't. These are systems built and running inside a multi-site retail network:

87 sitesacross 5 retail banners, purchasing run by a 2-person team
$594Kin acquisition cost error surfaced by a single audit
25–30 hrsof manual work automated out of the week
337 SKUsdeduplicated by an engine built to catch catalog drift
55 locationsallocated from what began as a one-store template

Client and employer details are withheld deliberately. The same discretion applies to your operation.

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The Founding Client brief

Ten seats. Everything below is the whole arrangement — there isn't a longer version.

What the Operations Audit is

A diagnostic of how your operation actually runs day to day — purchasing, inventory, reporting, vendor follow-up. It finds the gaps, puts a number on what each one is costing you, and hands back a plan for fixing them in order.

It always includes AI Opportunity Design: which of your workflows are genuinely ready to automate, the expected return on each, and the sequence to build them in. That layer is bundled — it's never sold separately.

What you get

  • A written audit report, in plain language, not consultant-speak
  • A gap analysis tied to financial impact — what each gap costs you per year
  • A prioritized action plan, sequenced so the first fix helps fund the next
  • An AI Opportunity map: your highest-return workflows, ranked and scoped

Delivered in 2–3 weeks from kickoff.

What it costs

$2,000–$3,250 as a founding client, against a standard rate of $3,500–$6,500. Priced by location count — 5–15 sites at the lower end, 16–50 at the upper.

Your founding rate is locked permanently. It carries to any follow-on work, and you're never repriced when standard rates rise.

What we ask in return

Two things, and nothing else. Be available as a reference for the occasional call with a prospect. And allow one written case study — we do all the writing, and nothing publishes without your sign-off, including your company name if you'd rather stay anonymous.

No exclusivity. No minimum term. No auto-renew.

The guarantee

If you're not satisfied at any point — any point, any reason — you get a full refund, the agreement is void, and we part on good terms. No trial window, no conditions, and no clawback of work already delivered to you.

What happens next

  • You send the short application below
  • If it looks like a fit, we book a call — a real conversation about how your operation runs, not a pitch
  • If we both want to go ahead, it's a one-page agreement, not something that needs a lawyer

If you're smaller than that

One location, or working on your second? Still worth the conversation. The audit just shifts from untangling existing chaos to building the foundation before you scale — which is far cheaper than retrofitting it across ten sites later.

The one honest limit: an audit reads your operational data, so if you're pre-revenue there isn't much yet to read. Get in touch anyway. We'll tell you what would actually move the needle for you right now — even on the occasions when that isn't us.

Step 2 of 2 · optional, but it's how seats get assigned

That's the whole offer. If you want to be considered for one of the ten seats, four more questions — they're what the first call is built from.

Plain language is fine. One or two sentences.

Application received

You'll hear back within two business days. If it looks like a fit, the next step is a short call — no pitch, just a real conversation about how your buying actually runs.

Book that call now

Or wait to hear from us — either works.