Guardrailed ERP Agent Orchestrator
9/10
Demand Score
Operations teams must eliminate manual ERP work under cost pressure without risking bad automations or compliance breaches.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A secure orchestration layer that turns ERP events into safe, automatable work. It auto-builds an event stream from ERP logs/APIs (e.g., invoice posted, PO change, MRP exception), maps them to busines
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- UiPath
- Automation Anywhere
- Microsoft Power Automate
- SAP Build Process Automation
- Workato
- Tray.io
- Tonkean
- Kore.ai
Must-Have Features for MVP
ERP event stream builder and object mapping
Agent DSL with strict action constraints
Human-in-the-loop approval UI and SLAs
Sandbox/simulation mode with unit tests for flows
Prebuilt ERP automations with KPIs
Audit logs, versioning, and rollback
Policy engine for data access and PII redaction
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- ERP API limits and change windows
- InfoSec approval for AI components
- User trust and approvals for agents
- Complex exception scenarios requiring human judgment
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Demonstrable time savings on top 3 processes in 30 days
- Zero unapproved actions in production
- Fast connector performance with backpressure handling
- Clear governance model that satisfies audit/compliance
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