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Engineering, product and ideas.
Salesforce to Snowflake Real-Time Sync Without Heroku Connect: A Direct Path for RevOps and Analytics Teams
Heroku Connect can't write to Snowflake. RevOps teams comparing Data Cloud zero-copy, batch ELT, and real-time CDC for sub-minute Salesforce-to-Snowflake sync.
Internal chatbots for ERP data: grounding conversational AI
The hard part is not the conversation. It is that the answer has to be true, and only for the person asking.
AI agent for inventory exceptions and stock discrepancies
A discrepancy found at the pick face is an operational annoyance. The same one found at the customer is a refund, a review and a lost account.
AI agent for vendor onboarding: data and fraud checks
Onboarding is the only moment you have leverage over a supplier's data quality. Most companies spend it chasing a PDF.
AI agent for expense review: policy checks and receipts
Most expense review is theatre. The agent's job is to make the remaining part real.
B2B ecommerce for distributors: pricing and credit limits
A consumer storefront shows one price to everyone. A distributor's storefront has to show a different one to every customer, and be right.
Returns, refunds and credit notes in ecommerce and ERP
Forward order flow gets designed. The reverse flow gets discovered in the first week of trading.
Marketplace settlements: reconciling payouts and orders
The order integration was the easy half. The money arrives in a different shape entirely.
Inventory accuracy across channels: one source of truth
Overselling is not a data problem. It is a reservation problem wearing a data problem's clothes.