Vending Operations
An AI operating system for Randolph-Sheppard vending operators, built by a program insider who completed Illinois's Business Enterprise Program vendor certification. Engineered to work cleanly with assistive technology from day one. Founding-partner pricing for the first Illinois cohort.
If you went through Illinois BEP certification, you already know the list. The four-page BEPB P&L. The set-aside math. The repair rebate worksheet. The KEB submission package, every month. Sales tax aggregation across machines and locations. The expense journal. The check register reconciliation. The inventory snapshot in the seven-column BEPB format.
Hours every month, every month for the rest of your career, on paperwork that does not grow the business. And most of the tools we use to do this work were not built with assistive technology in mind, which makes every minute longer than it should be.
The result is a choice nobody should have to make: do the work yourself, or pay a state-contracted accounting service to do it for you. Most operators end up paying twice anyway, once in their own time and once in the accounting fee.
Six customer-visible capabilities in the Year 1 product. All of them run inside your own Google Workspace tenant. Your books stay in your Drive. You own everything.
The full module catalog covers inventory, pricing, purveyor orders, payroll and timesheets, field operations, the compliance calendar, and more. Founding-partner customers get every module at the same monthly subscription as they ship.
Every interface we build is screen-reader-tested before it ships. Not retrofitted. Not bolted on. Engineered.
You can move through the control board the way you naturally move through the web: by heading, by link, by button, by keystroke. Every control says what it is and what it does. The chat agent answers you in clear text you can scroll and reread, and your numbers come back in a form your screen reader will actually speak, not buried in a chart.
Developed by screen reader users for screen reader users.
Annual subscription with a founders rate locked permanently for the first ten Illinois vendors.
$9,997 per year, founders rate. Annual prepay.
Locked permanently for the first ten Illinois vendors.
Post-founder standard rate: $14,997 per year prepaid, or $1,797 per month month-to-month. The annual rate saves you over $6,500.
Includes the $4,997 Setup Sprint at no charge: kickoff call, tenant provisioning, Cantaloupe wiring, training sessions, and the first close run.
The 90-Day Monthly Close Guarantee. If your monthly close is not running on its own by day 90, with set-aside calculated correctly and your KEB submission ready for your signature, we work free until it is and refund 100 percent of every dollar you have paid. If BEPB ever sends you a non-compliance letter for a month on which we produced your KEB submission, we pay the fine and refund that month pro-rated.
Founding-partner cohort. We are wiring this with the first cohort of Illinois vendors right now. The first ten founding partners lock in the $9,997 per year rate for the life of the engagement and get founder-led implementation: tenant configuration, prior-period data migration, a mock monthly close before you depend on the system for real, and standby support for your first live close.
Jim Neitzel. BEP-certified through Illinois's six-month vendor training program. Illinois Committee of Blind Vendors participant. National Federation of the Blind of Illinois member. Presented on AI for business operators at ICBV in April 2026.
Engineering and product background. Currently onboarding founding pilot partners from the Illinois BEP community. The platform is being hardened against a real Illinois facility through a founding pilot partnership with an established vendor.
Generic vending SaaS products assume sighted operators. Accounting firms compete on accounting services, not on automation. The operating system we are building is the one we wanted to exist when we sat through the BEP curriculum ourselves.
If you are an Illinois BEP vendor and you want to be in the founding cohort, tell us about your operation below. We will follow up within 2 business days.