Natural stone / Full business overhaul
For granite, marble, quartzite, and natural stone businesses: a searchable catalog connected to real inventory, trade accounts with samples and holds, and records that follow material from source to delivery.
One slab, one record
One connected recordFind the right material
Search by what buyers actually choose on.
Reserve with confidence
Holds with owners and clear status.
Trace every slab
From source or receipt to delivery.
Your perspective
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Who this is for
Natural stone businesses differ in where they start. The system follows your model instead of assuming one.
Quarry and export operations
For businesses that operate a quarry or process blocks: records that start at the block and carry through cutting, finishing, lots, export paperwork, and the buyer’s delivery.
Domestic wholesale
For importers and wholesalers: slabs received from suppliers, photographed and recorded, sold to trade accounts, and delivered, with holds that never go stale.
Bottlenecks to investigate
Common patterns the audit looks for. Which apply to your business is confirmed before anything is built.
Catalogs are organized by internal names instead of the color, finish, thickness, and size a fabricator or designer is looking for.
Inspiration photos and material pages show stone that may be sold out, on hold, or never stocked in that thickness.
“In stock” can mean a whole lot, one slab, or something still on the water, so availability becomes a phone call.
The same samples are requested through several channels without a record of who received what or what happened next.
Holds are placed on calls and in notes, with no owner or expiry, so good slabs sit reserved for projects that moved on.
Warehouses, yards, and inbound shipments are tracked separately, and the sales team cannot see the whole position at once.
One purchase, two sides
Trade buyers, designers, and homeowners arrive differently. Each path is built for the person on it, connected to the same records inside the business.
The buyer
A designer, fabricator, or homeowner looks for a material by color, finish, and application, often starting from photos.
Your business
Material and application pages answer by material family, with clear routes for trade buyers and for homeowners.
Handoff: A material family of interest and the visitor’s role.
The buyer
A trade buyer narrows to specific slabs by thickness, size, finish, and location, and compares options.
Your business
The catalog shows slab level records from the inventory system, with status and identifiers.
Handoff: A project shortlist of specific slabs or lots.
The buyer
The buyer requests samples or a showroom visit before committing a client to a slab.
Your business
Sample requests are logged against the account and project, with follow up assigned to a person.
Handoff: Samples sent, visit booked, and the next step owned by sales.
The buyer
The buyer asks for trade pricing and a hold while the client decides.
Your business
Sales prepares the quote and places a hold with an owner and an expiry, visible to the team.
Handoff: A quote and a dated hold on named slabs.
The buyer
The fabricator places the order and plans pickup or delivery.
Your business
The order passes to the existing ERP or inventory system, and pick, load, and delivery status updates the account.
Handoff: Order in the system of record; status visible to the buyer.
The buyer
The fabricator returns for the next project, and the homeowner may be referred to a fabricator.
Your business
Account history, saved lists, and referral paths keep repeat trade orders simple and separate from consumer leads.
Handoff: Repeat orders and qualified referrals recorded by source.
Interactive workflow
Filter a small fictional catalog, compare up to three slabs, build a sample and quote list, and follow a selected slab through a wholesale or a quarry workflow.
Illustrative workflow. Fictional data.
Explore the connected stone business
Demo catalog, 8 slabs · fictional data
8 of 8 demo slabs match.
Demo Nero
Granite
Leathered · 126 × 75 in, 1 1/4 in thick
DS-1101 · LOT 24A · Warehouse A
Demo Nero
Granite
Polished · 120 × 73 in, 3/4 in thick
DS-1102 · LOT 24A · Warehouse A
Demo Calacatta
Marble
Honed · 114 × 67 in, 3/4 in thick
DS-1203 · LOT 31C · Warehouse B
Demo Calacatta
Marble
Polished · 118 × 71 in, 1 1/4 in thick
DS-1204 · LOT 31D · Inbound container
Demo Azure
Quartzite
Leathered · 124 × 77 in, 1 1/4 in thick
DS-1310 · LOT 07Q · Warehouse B
Demo Azure
Quartzite
Polished · 118 × 73 in, 3/4 in thick
DS-1311 · LOT 08Q · Inbound container
Demo Sand
Granite
Polished · 122 × 74 in, 1 1/4 in thick
DS-1420 · LOT 15S · Warehouse A
Demo White Quartz
Engineered quartz · manufactured, not natural stone
Polished · 126 × 63 in, 1 1/4 in thick
DS-1505 · BATCH 5502 · Warehouse B
Selected slab journey
DS-1310 · Demo Azure
For importers and wholesalers buying finished slabs from suppliers.
Sample and quote list
Add slabs to build a sample and quote list for a project.
Illustrative workflow with fictional data. Slabs, names, lots, and locations are invented; color swatches are not photographs. Natural stone varies, so even a real photograph or sample does not guarantee an identical slab. Engineered quartz is a manufactured product, shown separately from natural quartzite.
Material and inventory data
Accurate records decide whether buyers trust the catalog. These are the rules the catalog is built on.
System of record
Named during the audit, usually your stone ERP or inventory system.
Update cadence
How often availability refreshes, agreed and shown to buyers.
Reservation owner
A named person for every hold, with an expiry and history.
The full business overhaul
The catalog brings buyers to real inventory, the portal carries samples, quotes, and holds, media shows the material honestly, and reporting shows where stock and sales are moving.
Pillar 01 · Custom Websites
A catalog built around how buyers choose stone, with trade accounts layered on top.
Pillar 05 · Operations Portals
Connected to the stone ERP and inventory systems you already run, with one owner for every reservation.
Pillar 04 · Video & Content
Photography and film that show real material, made with authorization and labeled for what it shows.
Pillar 02 · SEO & AEO
Pages search engines and AI tools can understand, for the materials and applications you actually supply.
Pillar 06 · AI Automation
Faster answers and fewer manual updates, with people approving prices and commitments.
Pillar 03 · Paid Advertising
Campaigns aimed at fabricators, designers, and architects, kept separate from consumer inspiration.
Priority: Lead pillars usually come first, Core pillars are part of most programs, and Supporting pillars are added when the audit justifies them.
The coordination layer
A fractional CMO from FXXK can coordinate the program: balancing trade acquisition with what is actually in stock, keeping media and catalog work aligned, and reviewing the measures with leadership each month.
Fractional CMO leadershipFabricators and trade buyers: accounts, pricing, samples, holds, and orders. The commercial core of the business.
Material pages, technical documents supplied by the business, and shareable project shortlists.
Inspiration and showroom content with a clear route to a fabricator referral, not to trade pricing.
Reference architecture
A simple model of how the pieces relate. The real design comes from the audit and your existing systems.
Material pages, slab search, and paths for trade and homeowner visitors.
Trade accounts, contacts, projects, samples, and quotes.
Trade and internal views over the same slab and order records.
Stay authoritative for inventory, accounting, and logistics.
Sales, inventory, and fulfillment measures from connected data.
Inventory has one system of record, an agreed update cadence, and a named owner for reservations. The catalog and portals read from it; they never become a second inventory that drifts.
Client portals and internal tools are scoped per business after discovery. These are the standards we plan around; specific commitments are written into each agreement. We do not claim certifications or enterprise service levels we have not established.
AI with human review
Draft descriptions
Write slab and material descriptions from structured records for a person to approve.
Approved document search
Answer designers’ questions from technical documents the business has approved.
Sample follow up drafts
Prepare follow ups after samples ship, for sales to review and send.
Inventory exceptions
Flag aged holds, mismatched counts, and slabs missing photos.
A person approves anything involving prices and quotes, contracts and terms, technical specifications, operational changes, and customer commitments.
Phased delivery
The order and timing come from the audit. A catalog is only as good as the inventory behind it.
Interviews with leadership, sales, warehouse, and key trade customers; a review of the inventory system, photo process, data quality, and a sample of real orders.
Accepted when: Leadership agrees on the system of record and approves phase one.
Material family pages, application content, and slab level search from clean inventory data.
Accepted when: Catalog availability matches the inventory system in agreed spot checks.
Account pricing, shortlists, sample and quote requests, and holds with owners and expiry dates.
Accepted when: Pilot trade accounts complete real sample requests and holds end to end.
Source to delivery records where the business operates a quarry, inbound visibility, fulfillment status, and reporting.
Accepted when: Reported figures reconcile with the inventory and accounting systems.
Training for sales, warehouse, and trade customers, a staged launch, and an agreed support arrangement.
Accepted when: Each team completes training and the support process is tested before full launch.
Measurement plan
These describe the measurement plan, not results already achieved. Baselines come from your own records during discovery, each measure gets an agreed definition and owner, and only figures backed by connected data are reported.
Investment and fit
Engagement targets
These are FXXK Agency’s engagement targets for this offering, set after discovery. They are not fixed packages, past deal values, or guaranteed outcomes. Wider scope, more locations, or more integrations can take a program past $500,000.
Advertising spend
Paid to the platforms directly and approved by you. Management of campaigns is a service; the media budget is yours.
Software licenses
Your CRM, ERP, field service, inventory, or document tools, and any new subscriptions the plan recommends.
Hosting and infrastructure
Production hosting, databases, storage, backups, and monitoring, sized from your real usage.
AI usage
Model and processing charges from AI providers, which rise and fall with the volume of documents and requests.
Continuing services
Support, maintenance, content production, and campaign management after launch, scoped as an ongoing engagement.
A six figure program must be supported by deliverables, complexity, and a business case your finance team would accept. The audit builds that case from your inventory, sales, and order records.
Staff time recovered
Hours removed from retyping, chasing, and reconciling, valued at a loaded cost the finance team agrees with. Recovered time is capacity, not cash, until it is redeployed.
Faster processing
Shorter time from inquiry to quote, from completed work to invoice, or from order to shipment. Faster cycles change cash timing and customer experience before they change revenue.
Contribution margin
The margin on work won or retained after direct costs. Revenue alone overstates the case; the margin on the additional or protected work is the number that pays for the program.
We do not publish projected returns or guaranteed savings. The audit produces a business case from your numbers, and you decide whether it clears your bar.
Smaller or more focused work is still welcome through the standard project inquiry.
We have not published a natural stone engagement. These projects show capabilities that transfer: online ordering connected to operations, a technical manufacturer’s website for commercial buyers, and custom operations software.
Website and Shopify ordering, SEO and AEO, content, video, social, advertising, and custom operations software.
Website, SEO and AEO, and an operations portal covering production, quality control, packing, and shipping.
Website, SEO and AEO, local search, and a custom operations portal for a service business.
Natural stone questions
10 of 10 questions
No. The page and the system offer separate paths. Quarry operators and processors can track records from source block through processing and export. Importers and wholesalers start from goods received from suppliers.
Where your inventory and photo process support it, yes: each slab record can carry its actual photograph and identifiers. We set up the workflow to photograph and attach them. We never use generated imagery to represent a slab for sale.
Photographs and samples help buyers choose, but natural stone varies, and they do not guarantee an identical appearance. The catalog states this plainly, and buyers can still view the slab in person.
As different things. Quartzite is a natural stone; engineered quartz is a manufactured product. They are labeled, filtered, and described separately so buyers are never confused.
Your existing stone ERP or inventory system, in most cases. The audit names the system of record, how often it updates the catalog, and who owns each reservation. The website and portals read from it rather than becoming a second inventory.
Often, depending on what it exposes. Stone specific ERP and inventory platforms exist, and integration depends on their interfaces and your access. No integration is included or promised until it is verified in discovery.
Yes. Trade accounts see their own pricing tier after signing in, while public visitors see material information and a route to request trade access.
Only claims your business supplies evidence for, such as technical documents you provide. We do not invent quarry ownership, geological origin, test results, certifications, or sustainability statements.
Strategic transformation programs start from $150,000, and comprehensive enterprise overhauls typically run $300,000 to $500,000 or more, set after discovery. Advertising spend, software licenses, hosting, AI usage, and continuing services are scoped separately.
Yes. Many programs start with the catalog and material foundation, then add trade accounts, holds, and traceability once the inventory data is reliable.
Connected capabilities
Page
The flagship offer: websites, search, acquisition, content, operations software, and AI automation designed and built as one connected infrastructure.
Service
Plan, design, and build a custom business website with useful customer journeys, search foundations, conversion paths, and scoped launch support.
Service
Custom mobile and web operations software for your team, with JV Design MFG and Serpent Drain as real examples of business specific systems.
Service
Commercial video, short form content, ad creative, and founder branding built into a repeatable content system.
Service
Technical SEO, helpful content, and clear business information that support discovery through Google and search enabled AI experiences.
Service
AI assisted processes, lead qualification, document processing, and automated follow up, with people reviewing what matters.
Service
Marketing leadership and the team to execute it. Connect your website, campaigns, creative, search, and systems.
Executive consultation
Tell us how material moves from source or receipt to the buyer today. Lucas reviews every request personally before the first conversation.
This is a real inquiry, separate from the illustrative demo above. It reaches Lucas directly. Please do not attach or paste confidential drawings, specifications, or customer data; those are exchanged securely once an engagement is agreed. Prefer to talk first? Book a call or email contact@fxxkagency.com.