Consumer catalog tools grade on photos and prose. B2B does not work that way. Your buyers match on attributes, specifications, and documentation, so that is what we weight, tuned to your industry rather than a generic average. And in specialized fields where no public standard exists, you can define your own bar and we measure to it. The standard is yours. The score is independent.
You cleaned up the catalog once, for the web store. It worked. Customers could browse it, find what they came for, and check out. That problem is behind you.
But buyers do not all start on your web store anymore. They arrive through search, through marketplaces, and increasingly through AI tools that read your product data directly, and most distributor catalogs were never built to be read that way. A contractor asks an assistant for a contactor with a 24-volt coil, and if your data does not carry the voltage in a form the machine can read, you are not in the answer.
The gap does not show up as a complaint. It shows up as the search that never finds you, the quote that goes to the distributor whose data was readable. CatalogIQ measures that gap before it costs you the order.
No jargon. These are the things that decide whether a search engine or an AI tool can actually use your product data.
Refrigerant and efficiency rules keep moving. CatalogIQ rolls up your catalog to show which products are exposed to a rule and where the supporting data is missing, so you can see your exposure across the catalog instead of checking products one at a time.
Contractor and procurement buying is going the same way as consumer buying: agent mediated. The question for a distributor is no longer only how your catalog reads to a buyer on your site. It is whether an AI agent acting for that buyer can find the right part, confirm it fits, and trust the data enough to act. We measure that readiness against the emerging agentic commerce standards, so you know where your catalog stands before your customers' tools decide for them.
When the largest distributor in the industry treats catalog data as a competitive weapon, contractor expectations shift for everyone. The bar for what "findable" means has already moved.
The regulatory readiness tools flag where your catalog data may not carry what a regulation like the EPA AIM Act requires. They identify the product, name the regulation, state the data gap, and list what is missing. They check whether your catalog data is ready; they do not decide whether a product is lawful to sell.
Yes, DOE efficiency standards are one of the two regulatory areas covered at HVAC/R launch, alongside the EPA AIM Act. The readiness tools flag where catalog data may fall short of the relevant efficiency-standard data requirements.
No. This is the important part. Regulatory readiness is gap detection, not a verdict on whether a product can be sold. It measures whether your catalog data carries the information a regulation requires, and flags where it may not. It is a readiness signal for your data, not a determination about your products. Use it to find gaps, then confirm anything that matters with the primary regulation and your own counsel.
The readiness tools roll up your catalog to show which products are exposed to a given regulation and where the supporting data is missing, so you can see your exposure across the catalog rather than checking products one at a time. The specific rule boundaries are drawn from the primary regulation.
Regulatory readiness tools are included at the Benchmark tier and above for HVAC/R. The free Snapshot tells you where your catalog stands overall; the regulatory readiness detail is part of the subscription.
HVAC/R distribution is where regulatory pressure and catalog complexity intersect most sharply right now, and where the standards distributors are measured against have moved fastest. That made it the right place to launch regulatory readiness first. Other verticals follow as their rule modules are built and verified.
We measure your HVAC/R catalog and show you the gaps that are costing you the search.