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Real-world experience, turned into growth.

Duo helps emerging CPG brands reach independent retailers — and builds intelligent software from the lessons we learn doing the work.

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The two sides of Duo

One company. Two practical ways to help small businesses grow.

Both sides of Duo begin with the same idea: useful knowledge should come from doing real work.

Duo eBroker

Hands-on sales support for emerging CPG brands.

Duo eBroker helps brands reach individual independent-store buyers and build a broader, more resilient base of well-matched accounts.

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Duo Intelligence

Practical software shaped by real business work.

Duo Intelligence turns the strongest repeatable systems from Duo’s work into tools other businesses can use.

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The work teaches the system.

Duo’s two divisions are connected by a simple progression.

  1. Real work

    Conversations, follow-ups, samples, orders, and reorders create experience.

  2. Experience

    Repeated work reveals patterns.

  3. Insight

    Useful patterns make the next decision clearer.

  4. System

    The strongest lessons become repeatable ways of working.

  5. Software

    The strongest systems become tools other businesses can use.

Duo eBroker is where the fieldwork happens. Duo Intelligence carries the strongest repeatable systems forward as software.

Featured service · Duo eBroker

Build the root system before you expand the canopy.

Duo eBroker focuses on the account-by-account work of independent retail. Direct sales builds a diversified foundation; distribution, chains, and larger brokers can help expand it.

Direct sales builds the root system. Distribution helps expand the canopy.

Who it serves

Emerging CPG brands that want to build stronger relationships with well-matched independent retailers.

What Duo does

  • Identify and reach well-matched independent-store buyers.
  • Carry the work through conversations, follow-ups, samples, purchase orders, and reorder cycles.
  • Learn which messages, attributes, regions, and store types appear stronger or weaker.
  • Send client reports directly as part of the service.

The first order matters. The reorder relationship matters more. Duo looks beyond raw placement counts toward a resilient base of accounts that can keep ordering.

Grow My CPG Brand

Small brokerage. National reach. Deep category experience.

Duo provides direct-sales coverage across the United States while keeping the hands-on attention of a small, experienced team.

We’ve worked with more than 185 CPG brands across over 70 product categories, giving us a wide base of real-world experience to draw from when positioning products, approaching retailers, and recognizing what may—or may not—work.

185+
CPG brands worked with
70+
product categories
National
direct-sales coverage

Duo Intelligence · Available

Available

Find more businesses that look like your best customers.

Swamp Creature starts with a business you already know is a strong fit. It studies that company’s DNA, searches for similar prospects, and explains why each result belongs on your list.

Built from real prospecting work, it helps small teams move beyond generic databases and begin with evidence instead of a blank search box.

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Product roadmap

Building in the open, without pretending what’s ready.

Swamp Creature is available now. The products below are labeled according to their actual stage.

WhiteWolf

Next in development

A sales and day-planning system designed to help teams know who to contact, why they matter, and what to do next.

Red Squirrel

Planned

A practical marketing mentor designed to bring chief-marketing-officer thinking within reach of small businesses.

Popdragon

Planned

A warm, intelligent invoice and cash-flow assistant designed to help businesses spot risk and act sooner.

Results and evidence

Proof should help you make the next decision.

Duo turns the work into a clearer view of what is happening: which buyers respond, where samples move toward orders, where reorders develop, and which patterns are still too early to trust.

Buyer response

Which buyers and store profiles respond, request samples, and move toward an opening order.

Reorder development

Where first orders become repeat relationships—and where they do not.

Responsible interpretation

What the available evidence suggests, what remains uncertain, and what to do next.

Your brand stays private. The intelligence keeps growing.

Brand-specific results remain confidential. Broader guidance should use aggregated, de-identified patterns and clearly distinguish observed outcomes, reported context, estimates, and insufficient data.

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Compounding Wisdom

Reality is the greatest teacher.

Every conversation, sample, order, missed opportunity, and reorder leaves behind a lesson.

Duo captures what works, tests it against reality, and carries the useful parts forward—first as better service, and sometimes as software.

Wisdom grows when experience is remembered.

Brand-specific learning remains confidential. Broader guidance must rely on responsible, aggregated, and de-identified patterns that do not expose an individual brand’s private information.

Insights

Practical thinking from the work.

These are ideas Duo is developing from the realities of independent retail, business growth, and responsible learning.
Idea in development

Direct sales builds the root system

Why direct and distributed sales solve different, complementary problems.

Idea in development

The first order is only the beginning

Why store fit and reorder durability matter more than a flashy placement count.

Idea in development

Intelligence should compound responsibly

How observation, privacy, and honest limitations make business learning more useful.

Choose the path that fits the work ahead.

Duo has two public divisions and one shared purpose: helping small businesses grow.

Grow my CPG brand

Build a stronger independent-retail foundation with hands-on eBroker support.

Grow My CPG Brand

Explore practical software

See how Duo turns systems tested in real work into tools other businesses can use.

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