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title: "About Human After All — B2B commerce partner for manufacturers & distributors"
description: "Operator-led B2B eCommerce agency for manufacturers and distributors. Shopify Plus, Akeneo PIM, ERP integration, and AI-first commerce — built by people who have run these operations from the inside."
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language: "en"
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About · Human After All

# The B2B commerce partner for _manufacturers and distributors._

We help you grow B2B revenue as buying moves to self-serve, digital, and AI.

Most B2B sellers built their business on reps and relationships. We help them keep that relationship — and the margin that comes with it — as the first sales call quietly shifts from a phone call to a search box, and increasingly to an AI agent that decides which supplier makes the shortlist before a human is ever involved.

[Book a conversation →](https://humanafterall.ca/contact/) Operators, not integrators.

Search · Agent · Shortlist

BUYER QUERY

"Industrial gaskets, NSF-61 certified, ships in 5 days, net 30 terms"

AI AGENT · UCP / CHATGPT / GEMINI

Reading product feeds · matching attributes · scoring suppliers

SHORTLIST · 3 SUPPLIERS

01Your brand Chosen

02Competitor

03Competitor

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The premise

## We've been on your side of _the table._

Most B2B eCommerce agencies have only ever worked on the agency side. We haven't. Human After All was founded by a senior commerce leader who **ran these operations from the inside** — managing teams, P&Ls, ERP integrations, and the organizational change that decides whether a digital channel actually gets adopted or quietly dies.

That's the difference you feel in every engagement. We don't recommend platforms from a deck. We've implemented them in production, connected them to the ERP, and **sat in the room when the CFO asked why the numbers didn't match.** We scope, build, and deliver like people who have sat where you sit — because we have.

The same project, two views Time →

Agency side · Scope · Launch

Pitch

Scope

Build

Launch

Train

Adopt

P&L

HUMAN AFTER ALL · BOTH SPANS

Operator side · Build · ROI

Pitch

Scope

Build

Launch

Train

Adopt

P&L

Most agencies hand off at launch. We've sat in the seat where adoption decides ROI — which is why we never leave the table at hand-off.

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What we do

## Operator-led. _AI-first._

admin.shopify.com One admin

Orders1,284 today

Companies (B2B)47 · net 30 / 60

Customers (DTC)12.4k accounts

Price lists8 negotiated

Catalogs12 segmented

Inventory3 locations

01

### Shopify Plus B2B

Implementation, configuration, and the operational decisions that determine whether a wholesale store ships revenue or overhead. Company accounts, customer-specific pricing, net terms, and the checkout logic B2B actually runs on.

PIM · SKU 04812 ENRICHED

Material**316 stainless**

Spec**NSF-61 certified**

Pricing**Tiered · Net 30**

Shopify B2B

Your ERP

Marketplace

One source · in sync · no re-keying

02

### Akeneo PIM & ERP integration

Catalog architecture, attribute strategy, and the integration plumbing that lets your ERP speak fluent Shopify — orders, inventory, and pricing in sync, with no one re-keying data by hand.

Agentic surfaces

ChatGPT Gemini Copilot UCP GEO

01 · Buyer intent

"5 cases · net 30 · 5-day ship"

↓

02 · Agent reads your catalog

Attributes · pricing · stock · terms

↓

03 · Agent transacts

Instant Checkout · UCP · agentic API

03

### AI-first commerce

GEO, agentic-checkout readiness, and the product-data infrastructure for the AI commerce layer. Not bolted on after launch — built into how every engagement is scoped from day one.

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How we deliver

## Built to _operate._

We don't launch and leave. We build platforms your team can actually run — self-serve B2B portals, autonomous pricing, dashboards that surface the answer before anyone asks the question. **Our engagements are built so your team can run the system — with us in your corner long after launch.** The technology is the easy part. The organizational change is where most projects succeed or fail — so that's where we start.

Engagement arc Project timeline →

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 8 Wk 12 Wk 16+

01

Scope

Strategy & org. design first.

02

Build

Implement on Shopify + Akeneo + ERP.

03

Operate

You run it. We stay on call.

∞

HAA stays in your corner Ongoing · on call · monthly

You operate. We stay in your corner.

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Proof

## Results, not _promises._

SEG · 01

Consumers

SEG · 02

Schools

SEG · 03

Enterprise

SEG · 04

Corporate spend

Husky Boutique · Shopify Plus B2B

### Four buyer experiences. One platform.

Four distinct buyer experiences on one Shopify Plus build — consumers, schools, enterprise multi-location, and corporate spend programs — replacing a one-size-fits-all custom system, with ERP integration and self-serve ordering.

Y1

Y2

Y3

Y4

4 YRS · DOUBLE-DIGIT

Lumen (part of Sonepar) · Operator history

### Four years. Double-digit growth.

Four consecutive years of double-digit online growth at Lumen, part of Sonepar — one of the world's largest electrical distribution groups. Digital became the default B2B ordering channel — the operator track record Human After All is built on.

PIM · Attributes NORTH AMERICA

3,000+ SKUS · GOVERNED

Goodyear · Akeneo PIM

### Catalog at North-American scale.

Enterprise Akeneo PIM implementation for Goodyear across North America — product-data governance and catalog architecture across thousands of SKUs.

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![Rudy Abitbol, Founder of Human After All](https://humanafterall.ca/images/2026/05/rudy-founder.jpeg)

The founder

### Rudy Abitbol — _Founder._

Rudy founded Human After All after running B2B commerce from the inside as a senior commerce leader at manufacturers and distributors — delivering **52% B2B sales growth as an operator** and **four consecutive years of double-digit online growth** at a national distributor. He's a Forbes Agency Council member, a MasterB2B Nexus Executive Advisor, and an international B2B commerce speaker.

He keeps that edge current — completing Anthropic's official Claude and AI fluency training, and building with these tools daily across client engagements.

18+

years operating B2B commerce

52%

B2B sales growth (as operator)

4 yrs

consecutive double-digit growth

$8M

digital budgets managed

40+

people led

[More about Rudy →](https://humanafterall.ca/meet-the-founder/)

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Let's talk

## No pitch deck.  
_Just a conversation._

Bring us your B2B commerce challenge and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right operators to solve it.

[Book a conversation →](https://humanafterall.ca/contact/)
