API Forge for Legacy ERPs
10/10
Demand Score
Critical integrations (e-commerce, 3PL, tax, CPQ) are blocked by inadequate ERP APIs, forcing expensive manual workarounds and nightly batch delays.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-18k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Expert
The Problem
A programmable API synthesizer that creates stable REST/GraphQL/gRPC endpoints over ERPs with poor or missing APIs. It learns transactions by recording validated user journeys (web extension for brows
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Competitor Landscape
- UiPath
- Automation Anywhere
- Blue Prism
- Apigee
- Kong
- Workato
Must-Have Features for MVP
Journey recorder to capture transactions safely
OpenAPI/GraphQL spec generator from recordings
Idempotency keys and optimistic locking
Queue manager with rate limiting and backpressure
Automated test harness and sandbox replays
Element re-identification and self-healing mappings
Fine-grained RBAC, audit logs, and secrets vault
Health monitoring, SLOs, and alerting
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- EULA/compliance constraints on UI instrumentation
- Brittleness of UI changes impacting reliability
- Throughput limits and ERP session contention
- Rollback strategies for partial failures
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Cover 90%+ of target transactions via synthesized APIs
- <1 hour MTTR after UI change events
- <0.5% failure rate at target throughput
- No material ERP performance degradation
- Developer satisfaction and adoption of the generated APIs
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