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SalesPatriot

salespatriot.com

SalesPatriot provides AI-powered procurement and supply-chain operations software for defense, aerospace, and industrial suppliers.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
5 active roles
Jobs checked 1h ago
Sales TechB2B SaaS

About

SalesPatriot builds an AI operating system for complex procurement and distribution, serving defense, aerospace, and industrial suppliers, including distributors and manufacturers handling Pentagon-related orders. Its differentiation is combining AI workflow automation with fragmented-data integration and forward-deployed engineers who work directly with customer teams.

Market

SalesPatriot competes in vertical AI and supply-chain SaaS for defense, aerospace, industrial distribution, and government contracting. Its positioning combines government-opportunity intelligence with execution workflows for quoting, sourcing, procurement, and inventory, rather than focusing only on contract discovery. The main differentiator is an AI-native operating layer supported by forward-deployed engineers who integrate fragmented legacy systems and tailor automation to each customer’s operation.

Target Customers

SalesPatriot primarily targets distributors, OEMs, defense contractors, and small manufacturers in the defense, aerospace, and industrial sectors. Its main users and buyers are sales, procurement, supply-chain, and operational leaders managing high-volume RFQs, sourcing, purchasing, and government-contract opportunities.

At a Glance

Problem

SalesPatriot addresses the operational bottleneck created by fragmented defense, aerospace, and industrial supply chains. Procurement and distribution teams still move information manually among email, spreadsheets, PDFs, ERPs, supplier portals, and government databases; the company says roughly 80% of procurement work remains manual. That creates duplicated data entry, weak supplier visibility, slow responses, and executives who cannot see win rates, margins, or bottlenecks in real time.

The economic pain is especially acute in defense parts distribution, where a slow or inaccurate response can cost a contract and where complex compliance, multi-tier suppliers, and legacy systems add weeks of overhead. The killer use case is helping a manufacturer or distributor find an RFQ, gather supplier pricing and availability, prepare a compliant quote, and manage the resulting order quickly enough to win more Pentagon business without adding headcount.

Product / Service

SalesPatriot is an AI-native operating system and workflow platform for distributors, OEMs, manufacturers, and suppliers. It aggregates information from systems such as ERPs, Outlook, supplier portals, government databases, spreadsheets, and PDFs into a searchable operational layer, then applies AI to automate or accelerate quote processing, RFQ generation, purchase orders, supplier communications, sourcing, compliance tracking, and order management. Its defense offering also includes supplier intelligence, audit trails, and executive dashboards covering costs, performance, pipeline health, and bottlenecks.

The delivery model combines software with embedded, forward-deployed engineers. Rather than requiring a customer to replace its existing stack or redesign every process, SalesPatriot engineers work inside the operation to configure integrations, capture institutional knowledge, standardize workflows, and optimize the system around the customer's way of working. The intended benefits are faster quote and procurement cycles, lower manual workload and operating cost, greater visibility, improved supplier responsiveness, and higher win rates while keeping key decisions with the customer's team.

Market

SalesPatriot competes in the overlap of vertical B2B SaaS, AI-enabled procurement and supply-chain automation, defense technology, and government-contracting software. Its initial wedge is defense and aerospace parts distributors and OEMs, with broader applicability to industrial and electronics distribution. The competitive set is partly adjacent rather than identical: Crunchbase names GovDash, CACI International, and Unanet as possible alternatives, while GovDash is more focused on pre-award capture and proposal work and Unanet is associated with post-award ERP and compliance. SalesPatriot differentiates around the operational middle of the workflow: discovering and evaluating opportunities, quoting, sourcing, and executing orders across fragmented systems.

The company is not merely pre-revenue or an idea-stage project. Founded in 2024, it raised a $5 million seed round led by CRV, bringing reported total funding to $6.3 million, and says its platform powers teams managing more than $200 million in annual Pentagon orders. It has publicly identified contracts with Jamaica Bearings Group, AllClear Aerospace, and STATZ Corporation, and announced a 2026 rollout partnership with Maven Engineering Corporation. These are meaningful early commercial signals, although the available evidence does not disclose SalesPatriot's revenue, customer count, or retention metrics.

Founders & Leadership

Nelson RayFounder
CEO
Benjamin Rhodes-KropfFounder
CTO
Maciej SzymczykFounder
Chief AI Officer

Funding History

2025-01
Pre-Seed$1.3M

Undisclosed angel investors

2025-10
Seed$5M

CRV

Recent News

2026-07partnership
Echelon Supply & Service + SalesPatriot

SalesPatriot published an impact study on its DLA bid-automation work with Echelon Supply & Service. The implementation connected Echelon’s ERP, email, and supplier data, and Echelon reported tripling its bids and gaining visibility into wins and losses.

2026-07partnership
FDH Expands The Use of AI-Powered Supply Chain Tool Worldwide

SalesPatriot highlighted FDH Aero’s partnership and expanded use of its AI-powered supply-chain platform worldwide. FDH said the tool streamlined sales processes, reduced response times, and improved customer support.

2025-10-28funding
We've raised $5M and we're hiring

SalesPatriot announced a $5 million seed round led by CRV, with participation from Pear VC, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid2, Uncorrelated Ventures, and prominent strategic angels. The company said the funding would support modernization of defense and aerospace procurement and further hiring.

2025-10-28
SalesPatriot lands $5M for defence procurement modernisation and European expansion

Tech.eu reported that SalesPatriot raised $5 million to expand its AI-driven procurement platform for defense and aerospace suppliers, bringing total funding to $6.3 million. The article said the company had signed distributors including Jamaica Bearings Group, AllClear Aerospace, and STATZ Corporation, and planned expansion into Europe and Asia.

2025-10-28
Polish-American startup SalesPatriot raises $5M to expand across Europe

Vestbee covered SalesPatriot’s $5 million seed round led by CRV and its plans to expand across European and international markets. The funding was also intended to grow the workforce, enhance the AI procurement platform, and handle larger defense-contract volumes.

Active Roles

5
San Francisco/Sales/18d ago
Warsaw Office/Engineering/34d ago
San Francisco/Engineering/34d ago
San Francisco/Forward-Deployed Engineer/34d ago

Business Model

SalesPatriot appears to monetize through enterprise contracts for its AI procurement and supply-chain platform, supplemented by implementation and forward-deployed engineering services. The company uses a request-a-demo sales model, and public per-seat or subscription pricing is not disclosed.

Products

Defense opportunity capture, research intelligence, and contract-management workflowsProcurement automation for complex, multi-source purchasing operationsDistribution workflows for high-volume quoting, sourcing, and inventory managementCustom AI workflows for procurement, RFQs, purchase orders, supplier management, and operational data entry

Customers

FDH Aero

Tech Stack

AI-native platform and custom AI workflowsTypeScript and JavaScriptReact, Svelte, or Next.js frontend technologiesSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQLIntegrations with ERP, CRM, email, spreadsheets, supplier portals, PDFs, and government-data systems

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