GapPatch Reports for CRMs
9/10
Demand Score
Revenue teams can’t answer critical questions (true pipeline coverage, multi-touch attribution, SLA breaches) because CRM reporting lacks required joins/fields; executives need reliable dashboards now without a data team project.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$800-3k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
B2B features require third-party apps or high-tier plans
Competitor Landscape
- Salesforce CRM Analytics
- Tableau
- Looker
- HubSpot Custom Report Builder
- Zoho Analytics
- DBT
- Census
Must-Have Features for MVP
Automatic schema introspection and dependency mapping
Virtual fields (lag, cohort, stage-age, weighted rollups)
Cross-object join engine with writeback to native fields/objects
Metric reconciliation with tolerance alerts
Embeddable report widgets inside CRM UI
Audit trail for every computed value
One-click backfill and ongoing scheduler
Row-level security aligned to CRM roles
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- API rate limits on writebacks
- Schema drift when admins add fields
- Large-org performance constraints
- Permission mapping for newly created virtual fields
- Trust in parity with native counts
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- Time-to-first-report under 60 minutes
- <1% variance vs native CRM counts for same definitions
- Adoption by ops without engineering help
- Reduction of ad-hoc SQL/CSV requests by 50%+ within 30 days
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.