advancing eyecare holdings

A smarter, more scalable foundation leveraging AI, automation, and analytics.

— AEC Press Release, January 13, 2026

Five weeks ago, you told the market what you need.
We built it. It runs on your data right now.

ABEONE LIVE
product intelligence

6,214 parts. Searchable in milliseconds.

Every SAP part number cross-referenced to its legacy SI number. Every OPD-III error code mapped to resolution steps and escalation levels. Every service contract tier with sales coaching. Pure deterministic search — no API keys, no external dependencies, instant.

6,214
SAP Parts Mapped
Legacy SI numbers cross-referenced to SAP
22
Error Codes
OPD-III diagnostics with guided resolution
3
Service Tiers
Contract types with sales coaching
22
Equipment Prefixes
8 categories across the portfolio
contact center knowledge capture

30 years of field service wisdom. No longer in one person's head.

73 real support calls transcribed using GPU-accelerated AI. Equipment knowledge, maintenance methods, and the kind of judgment that only comes from decades in the field — extracted, structured, and searchable. The contact center now has access to tribal knowledge that used to walk out the door at 5 PM.

73
Calls Transcribed
GPU-accelerated speech-to-text
6
Equipment Families
Slit lamps, autorefractors, phoropters, tracers, lensometers, tonometers
10
Maintenance Methods
Step-by-step procedures from real calls
9
Tribal Wisdom Captured
Expert knowledge that lived in one person
Slit Lamps
Autorefractors
Phoropters
Tracers
Lensometers
Tonometers
problem solving

4 months. 4 system boundaries. Treated as one problem.

A Nidek tracer — the instrument that maps the shape of every lens before cutting — stopped communicating through the virtual desktop environment. The issue crossed four system boundaries: serial protocol, virtual desktop infrastructure, mobile device management, and network configuration. Each boundary held part of the answer. None could see the others.

before
4 months
4 system boundaries. 4 conflated problems.
Serial protocol. Virtual desktop. Mobile device. Network config.
Each layer held part of the answer. None could see across.
after
1 session
4 problems separated. Root cause identified.
COM port conflict — the virtual desktop claimed the port before the device server could.
Architecture documented. Execution path defined.
P-A
COM Port Conflict
Virtual desktop driver claiming the serial port
P-B
Serial Data Flow
Commands not transmitting through VDI redirect
P-C
Device Handshake
Tablet serial adapter initialization failure
P-D
IP Persistence
Network config lost on device reconnection
The answer was always there. It was distributed across four system layers that had never been mapped together.
— convergence finds what silos hide
customer facing opportunity

8 companies. 5 systems. One nervous system.

Cornell Capital built the portfolio. AEC is consolidating into Jacksonville. The Center of Excellence needs a brain. This is it — a single intelligent surface that serves contact center, field service, and customers directly.

Marco Lombarthq
Jacksonville, FL
New & pre-owned ophthalmic equipment
50+
Santinelli International
Jacksonville, FL
Optical finishing equipment
50+
S4Optik
St. Louis / Guadalajara / Toronto
Diagnostic equipment manufacturing
15+
INNOVA Medical
Toronto, ON
Canadian ophthalmic market
30+
Enhanced Medical Services
St. Louis, MO
Certified pre-owned inventory
20+
Veatch Ophthalmic
Tempe, AZ
National optometry distributor
30+
Eyefficient
Twinsburg, OH
Curated diagnostic instruments
2024 acquisition
Birmingham Optical
UK & Ireland
European diagnostic imaging
2025 acquisition
abeone — all systems converged
SAP Business One847K
Salesforce CRM424K
Great Plains312K
Vonage Cloud89K
DocuSign16K
marketing ecommerce traffic

Three levers. Compounding returns.

Every business grows through three mechanisms: more conversations, higher conversion, and larger transactions. AI-driven ecommerce and product intelligence add a digital revenue channel that compounds on every other lever.

More Conversations

now
~60% of calls answered
target
100% of calls answered + AI outbound
Voice AI answers every call. Recall campaigns. Refill reminders. Rebooking lapsed accounts. Ecommerce traffic from product intelligence.

Higher Conversion

now
2 hours average quote time
target
< 2 minutes, first call
One question, one answer. SAP, Great Plains, and manufacturer numbers converged. Systems finally talking to each other.

Larger Transaction

now
$3.5M service revenue
target
$5.2M near-term, $10M potential
Umbrella service plans. Automated renewal. Cross-sell on every interaction. Protection plan attach rate.
measurement and impact

What has changed. What changes next.

Real performance change, measured. Four capabilities live today. Two more building toward full deployment.

Part Lookuplive
before
~2 hours across departments
after
Instant
Knowledge Documentedlive
before
0 calls captured
after
73 calls transcribed
Error Resolutionlive
before
Manual escalation chain
after
Guided steps + escalation levels
Systems Convergedlive
before
5 separate logins
after
1 query
Voice Coveragebuilding
before
~60% calls answered
after
100% AI-assisted
Ecommerce Revenuebuilding
before
No AI-driven traffic
after
Product intelligence + SEO
the investment
$70K/month
6-month contract
$420K total
Full stack. Fastest path to production.
$60K/month
1-year contract
$720K total
Full stack. Best value. Room to grow.
$50K/month
3-year contract
$1.8M total
Full stack. Lowest rate. Locked in.
0.12%
Of Enterprise Value
Rounding error against exit upside
$10-40M
Exit Multiple Impact
At 8-12x on efficiency gains
Week 12
Q2 Board Proof
Implementation complete before review
One system. One conversation. Every answer in one place.
implementation

Start Monday. Prove by Q2.

Week 1-2
System connections live. SAP, SFDC, GP, Vonage, DocuSign.
Week 3-4
Knowledge base ingestion. 400K+ documents. Tribal knowledge captured.
Week 5-8
AI trained on AEC domain. Part lookup, service plans, error codes live.
Week 9-12
Full deployment. Voice AI. Customer portal. Analytics dashboard.
Day 90
Q2 board meeting. System fully operational. Results demonstrated.
Jim, five weeks ago you told the market you're building a smarter, more scalable foundation with AI and automation. We built it. It's running on your data right now.

The only question is whether we start this week.
Start Monday
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