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About BAM!

Helping manufacturers eliminate inefficiencies
since 1997.

BAM! comes from Pop Art, the Portland software company that has spent nearly three decades helping manufacturers and their dealers sell. Today more than 3,500 distributors use what we’ve built.

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Founded 19973,500+ distributorsPortland, Oregon
The Freightliner Sales Tool, our first mobile sales tool, on iPad
1997
Founded in Portland, Oregon
3,500+
Distributors on BAM!
2010
Our first mobile sales tool
57%
Faster dealer ramp-up at Freightliner

From agency to product

Pop Art opened in Portland in 1997, building websites and custom software. Over the next decade, more and more of that work came from manufacturers with the same problem: great products, and a dealer network that couldn’t keep up with them.

In 2010 we built the Freightliner Sales Tool for Daimler Trucks North America, an iPad app that put every spec, comparison and calculator in a dealer salesperson’s hands. Dealers ramped up in about half the time, and Daimler recognized us at its annual summit for innovation in technology.

We kept building tools like it for other manufacturers and kept seeing the same results. So in 2018 we turned what we’d learned into a product any manufacturer could use: BAM!.

Today BAM! connects manufacturers with more than 3,500 distributors. And with BAM!-D, distributors can now carry every line they sell in one app.

Watch the Freightliner Sales Tool from 2010, where BAM! began. Opens on Vidyard.
Our history

Nearly three decades in the making

  1. 1997

    Pop Art opens in Portland, Oregon

    Websites and custom software for growing companies.

  2. 2000

    Tom Paul joins

    Starting in operations and working in nearly every part of the business, from account management to finance.

  3. 2007

    Tom becomes COO

  4. 2010

    Our first mobile sales tool

    The Freightliner Sales Tool puts specs, comparisons and calculators on Daimler Trucks North America dealers’ iPads.

  5. 2015

    Tom acquires majority ownership and becomes CEO

    Pop Art focuses on software for manufacturers and the dealers who sell for them.

  6. 2018

    BAM! launches

    Our sales tools become a product any manufacturer can use.

  7. 2019

    Javier Hall invests and joins as a partner

    The former CCO of Dollar Shave Club brings deep brand and product design experience to BAM!.

  8. 2026

    BAM!-D for distributors

    Distributors carry every line they sell in one app. More than 3,500 distributors now work with BAM!.

How we work

What we believe

01

Tools only matter if people use them

Every BAM! rollout includes training and an adoption plan, not just a login. Software that sits unused doesn’t sell anything.

02

Understand the problem first

We ask a lot of questions before we build, so your investment goes where it pays back fastest.

03

Execution beats strategy

A great plan is worthless without great follow-through. We sweat the details so your team doesn’t have to.

Our team

The people behind BAM!

Tom Paul

Tom Paul

CEO & Owner

Joined Pop Art in 2000 and has worked in nearly every part of the business, serving as COO from 2007. Became majority owner and CEO in 2015 and launched BAM! in 2018.

Javier Hall

Partner

Former CCO at Dollar Shave Club. Brings deep brand and product design experience, and has backed BAM! since 2019.

Dylan Hallstrom

Principal Engineer

Fourteen years building BAM! and the custom apps behind it, from our early sales tools to BAM!-D.

Manufacturers stay with us

Users love BAM! on G2

Users love BAM! on G2

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“Getting our sales team and our Channel Partners to the right content was very challenging due to the size of our organization and the different businesses that we had within the platform. It was really great to see that BAM! had the option for us to add new brands...we have four businesses within the BAM! app now.”
Naomi HoldvogtNaomi HoldvogtSenior Director, Growth Marketing, ProMach
Trusted by leading manufacturers
KPI-JCI Daimler Titan Freightliner EC Komptech Lipmann Oilgear AGRI-INJECT Western Star ProMach Alliance Truck Parts

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