FitGuard: ERP Fit‑Gap Replay & Budget Control
8/10
Demand Score
Customization overruns derail go‑lives and blow budgets; leadership needs proof of fit and hard guardrails pre‑contract.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-12k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
Turns your current processes and historical transactions into an executable spec that auto‑tests vendor fit before buying or customizing. Import a month of orders, invoices, returns, and production lo
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 1 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- RFP360/Loopio (RFP authoring)
- Gartner/Forrester consulting
- Celonis/Signavio (process mining)
- Generic test suites and PoCs
Must-Have Features for MVP
Process-spec DSL compiled from logs and user-provided rules
Multi‑vendor sandbox replay and scoring
Change catalog generator with impact/effort estimates
Integrator hours/budget guardrails and API timesheet hooks
Red/amber alerts for scope creep and freeze gates
Executive fit‑gap dashboard and procurement artifacts
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Accessing realistic historical data and masking PII
- Automating vendor sandbox provisioning reliably
- Vendor/legal approvals for synthetic replays
- SI pushback on guardrails and time tracking
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- >60% reduction in change orders vs. baseline
- Vendor selection cycle time cut by 30%
- 95%+ correlation between predicted and actual customization effort
- Executive confidence via replay evidence, not slideware
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.