Spending too much time ticking boxes for larger buyers?
Win bigger clients, faster.
Zilch helps wholesale distributors spend 87% less time on compliance and admin, close deals 3x faster, and increase customer spend by 16%.
Trusted by 130+ wholesale leaders
- Ethstat
- Packaroo
- NI Concept
- Aridzone
- Brand Aid Promotions
- Greenpac
- Inck Merchandise
- Bidfood
- Toll Group
$26.5mof customer spend
20,000+products assessed
The challenge
Larger customers come with more boxes to tick.
Corporate and government buyers need a growing amount of evidence about your business, products and suppliers. Gathering it, answering questions and keeping everything current adds work to winning and maintaining every account.
What buyers expect from their suppliers
Product
- Product safety & SDS
- Always
Company
- Supplier code of conduct
- Always
- ISO 9001 / 14001
- Sometimes
Supply chain
- Modern slavery reporting
- Mandatory
- Sustainable procurement
- Mandatory
Sustainability
- Climate reporting data
- From FY27–28
- Packaging / APCO data
- From FY27–28
The bigger the customer, the longer the list.
Their requirements become your workload.
You’re squeezed in the middle.
Your customers send requirements to you, and you have to chase your suppliers for the evidence to answer them.
The information is scattered.
Policies in shared drives. Certificates in inboxes. Product data in supplier PDFs.
Your team keeps finding and compiling the same information for different buyers.
It costs real time and money.
Missing information means more back-and-forth before buyers can approve you. It takes time away from selling and puts orders at risk.
- Chasing suppliers
- $4,000
- per year of follow-up on documents you don’t hold
- Repeated admin work
- $18,000
- of staff time per year spent gathering evidence and completing questionnaires
- Deal delay
- 23 days
- added to the average approval or tender
- Revenue at risk
- $280,000
- in orders lost or skipped over missing evidence
Winning large clients takes time and hard work. Our agents do it in the blink of AI.
Takes 20 seconds.
We’ll call within one business day.
Illustrative workflow · Sample data · Review AI drafts and modelled data before sharing.
How it works
From your website to their tender response.
Zilch reads your business and catalogue.
Enter your work email and Zilch ingests your website, pulling your company details, product catalogue, policies, certifications, clients and case studies into a compliance profile.
Zilch fills the gaps.
Carbon, materials, recycled content and packaging are modelled from product data. Missing policies are drafted for you or flagged and tracked directly from your suppliers.
Zilch answers the buyer.
The Zilch AI agent fills compliance questionnaires from your profile. It benchmarks your tender submissions, and sends out customer reports. A product page carries its own impact data.
Capabilities
What Zilch can do.
- ISO 9001 quality
- ISO 14001 environment
- ISO 45001 safety
- ISO 14067 product carbon
- APCO packaging data
- Product testing reports
- Modern slavery statement
- Supply chain mapping
- EcoVadis
- FSC chain of custody
- SA8000
- Safety data sheets
- AS 5347:2023
- ANSI/UL 4200A-2023
- Recycled content
- Materials declaration
- Public liability insurance
- WHS policy
- Supplier code of conduct
- Cyber & data policy
- GS1 product data
- Scope 1–3 emissions
What you get
- Value-added catalogue
- Save 87% admin time
- Shorter sales cycle
- Increased AOV
- Reduced supply-chain risk
- Recognised sustainability leader
- Faster vendor onboarding
- Bid on tenders you’d have skipped
- Fewer supplier chases
- Audit-ready evidence
- Tender ticks
- Ecommerce purchase
- Preferred-supplier badge
- Win larger accounts
Why distributors run on Zilch
And the compliance risk you couldn’t see — expired certificates, undocumented products, missing safety data — surfaces before a customer finds it.
What it’s worth in practice
Westpac wanted the working, not just the number.
Answered in days rather than weeks, no consultant, and every request after it took an afternoon.
Read the story: Westpac wanted the working, not just the number.Ethstat put a carbon footprint on its product pages.
Live across the catalogue, so buyers compare impact alongside price and quality, and download the breakdown.
Read the story: Ethstat put a carbon footprint on its product pages.Packaroo helps brands choose packaging on impact.
Brands compare options before they order, then have the evidence to explain the choice to their customers.
Read the story: Packaroo helps brands choose packaging on impact.
FAQ
What’s changed, and what hasn’t
Wait, weren’t you doing sustainability for promo?
Yes! We are still the first sustainability tool for the promotional products industry, but we now do compliance automation — company, supplier and product information in one profile, with sustainability data inside it. Everything you already used Zilch for is still here.
What is compliance automation software for suppliers and distributors?
Compliance automation software keeps the evidence buyers ask for, including policies, certifications, insurances, supplier audits and product documents, in one place and reuses it to answer due diligence questionnaires, tenders and supplier onboarding requests. Zilch builds that profile from your website and catalogue, flags anything missing or expired, and its AI agent fills each new questionnaire from what you already hold, so your team stops answering the same questions from scratch for every buyer.
Do I need to be doing sustainability to use this?
No. Most teams start with compliance: getting policies, certifications and supplier documents in order so they can pass buyer onboarding and answer tenders. The sustainability data comes with it. Carbon footprints, materials, recycled content and packaging are modelled for every product, so when a buyer asks for impact figures, you already have them.
What is a product carbon footprint (PCF)?
A product carbon footprint (PCF) is the total greenhouse gas emissions linked to a single product, measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent (kg CO₂e) per unit. Zilch calculates ISO 14067-aligned footprints for every SKU in your catalogue, broken down into materials, manufacturing, transport and packaging, plus decoration for branded products. Buyers use these figures to compare products and to estimate the Scope 3 emissions from what they purchase, which is why more tenders now ask for them.
What if my suppliers won’t give me anything?
You can still get started. Footprint, materials, recycled content and packaging are modelled from the product itself, so every SKU has usable data without waiting on a supplier, and modelled figures are kept distinct from supplier-provided evidence. Documents that only a supplier can provide, like audit reports and test certificates, are requested and chased automatically.
How do I get set up?
Enter your work email. Zilch reads your website and pulls your company details, product catalogue, policies, certifications, clients and case studies into a compliance profile. You review what it found, fill the gaps it flags and request anything missing from your suppliers. If you want the data in your own systems, the Partner API and Zapier integration connect it.
Is my data shared with competitors or buyers?
No. Your profile, documents and supplier details are private to your account, and nothing goes to a buyer unless you send it. When you do, manufacturer names, pricing and origin detail are redacted automatically, and you can add your own rules for anything else you want to hold back.
Does this replace my existing certifications or audits?
No. Zilch doesn’t issue certificates or carry out audits. It keeps the ones you and your suppliers already hold in one place, picks up expiries, flags what’s missing and puts the right evidence in front of buyers when they ask. Audits and certifications stay with the relevant schemes and assessors.
The next questionnaire is already on its way.
Get your company and your catalogue answerable — and stop letting compliance decide how fast you sell.