Gatekeeper DQ: Real-Time Data Contract and Correction Sidecar for ERP
10/10
Demand Score
Bad data corrupts inventory, billing, and reporting in real time; every bad record compounds costs.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-25k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A low-latency sidecar that intercepts master and transactional entries at the point of capture (UI overlay, API proxy, import guard) to enforce data contracts, detect duplicates, and suggest correctio
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Competitor Landscape
- Informatica Data Quality
- Ataccama
- Precisely Trillium
- Talend DQ
- SAP MDG
Must-Have Features for MVP
Field- and record-level validation policies with versioning
Real-time duplicate detection (fuzzy match) for vendors/materials/invoices
AI suggestions for standardization (e.g., UOMs, addresses, GL coding)
Owner routing with SLAs and auto-fix micro-bots
Import/EDI guardrails and vendor portal pre-validation
Trust scores and DQ SLO dashboards by source/team
Redaction, audit trails, and rollback queue
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Achieving sub-150ms validation latency under load
- Balancing false positives vs. operational flow
- Complex schema and reference data harmonization
- Change fatigue for frontline users if prompts are noisy
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- >60% reduction in DQ-related rework tickets within 90 days
- Increase first-time-right rate to >95% on targeted entities
- Cut invoice/PO exceptions by 40%
- Shrink DSO or inventory variance by measurable targets
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