PermiGrid: Unified RBAC and Approval Control Plane for Commerce
8/10
Demand Score
Teams either over-permission users (risk) or block work (bottlenecks). One accidental refund/export can wipe a month’s profit.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$149-799
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
9 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
Limited User Accounts and Permissions:
Competitor Landscape
- Shopify staff permissions (native)
- BigCommerce user roles (native)
- Okta/OneLogin (SSO only)
- StrongDM
- Oso Cloud
Must-Have Features for MVP
Role templates by function (support, finance, warehouse)
Resource-level scopes (collections, price lists, orders)
Threshold-based approvals and temporary elevation
SSO/SCIM provisioning and deprovisioning
Session recording and immutable audit trails
Anomaly detection (unusual refund/export behavior)
Policy-as-code with versioning and reviews
Browser assistant to flag/deny risky UI actions
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Incomplete platform APIs for some actions
- Driving adoption to route sensitive tasks through the control plane
- Complex role modeling across multiple systems
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Zero critical permission incidents after rollout
- <1 hour onboarding for new staff with correct roles
- Audit-ready logs satisfying SOC2/ISO27001
- Minimal friction through in-context approvals
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.