Customer Spine: Real-Time Golden Record for CRM
10/10
Demand Score
Fragmented records cause double-contact, missed renewals, and executive reporting chaos; sales and success teams can’t trust their CRM.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-5k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A lightweight identity resolution and schema-stitching service that builds a single customer truth across CRM, support, billing, product analytics, and marketing. Deterministic + probabilistic matchin
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
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Competitor Landscape
- Twilio Segment Personas
- mParticle
- RudderStack Profiles
- Hightouch Identity Resolution
- Census
- Reltio (heavy MDM)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Deterministic and ML-assisted identity matching with explainability
Unified customer timeline across systems
Safe merge queue with impact simulation and rollback
Field-level lineage and governance/consent flags
Warehouse-friendly outputs (dbt models) and CRM write-back
Health scores and dedupe impact metrics
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Data residency and PII handling requirements
- Edge cases in identity matching across B2B hierarchies (accounts, subsidiaries, contacts)
- CRM merge side-effects and automations triggering unintentionally
- Connector maintenance and schema drift
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Golden Record in <14 days for top entities
- >90% precision on merge recommendations with human-in-loop review
- Zero data loss with full version history and rollback
- Native components for Salesforce/HubSpot write-back
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.