SeatBurst — Task-Based Access & Session Pooling for Unlimited Contributors
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Demand Score
Merchants are forced into expensive plan upgrades solely to add staff; ops bottlenecks slow product updates and fulfillments daily.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$299-1k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
SeatBurst lets merchants invite unlimited collaborators (vendors, CS agents, merchandisers, agencies) without buying more ecommerce platform seats. Users perform pre-authorized tasks (e.g., edit a pri
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Competitor Landscape
- Okta
- Torii
- Zylo
- Shopify Mechanic
- ShopPad Mesa
- n8n
Must-Have Features for MVP
Prebuilt task catalog mapped to platform APIs (products, orders, discounts, metafields)
Per-task permission sets and approvals
One-time action links for external vendors
Full audit log with requester identity and diffs
Rollback/dry-run for safe changes
Queueing and rate-limit backoff
SSO/SCIM user provisioning
Granular SLAs and task throttling windows
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Ensuring 100% ToS compliance across platforms
- Covering admin-only actions that lack public APIs
- Rate limits when many tasks run concurrently
- Enterprise IT/security reviews (SSO, SCIM, SOC 2)
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Measured avoided seat-upgrade costs
- Task completion time reduction vs admin UI
- Zero ToS violations/security incidents
- High adoption by external collaborators
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