ShadowPilot for ERP AI Rollouts
9/10
Demand Score
Leadership mandates AI efficiency gains but ERPs are high-risk to change; teams need measurable, reversible deployment now.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-10k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Strict staff/user account limitations:
Competitor Landscape
- SAP Joule
- Oracle Digital Assistant
- Celonis
- UiPath
- WalkMe
Must-Have Features for MVP
Shadow-mode recommendations with one-click accept/feedback
90-day transaction replay and simulation lab
Feature toggles by role, module, and transaction type
Policy guardrails (SOD, approval limits) with full audit log
RAG over SOPs/policies for grounded outputs
A/B testing and ROI meter (time saved, errors avoided)
Rollback/kill switch and safe auto-mode thresholds
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Access to ERP sandboxes/logs
- Data privacy and export controls
- Model hallucination and explainability
- Change management approvals
- Vendor TOS around augmentation layers
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Show measurable time/error reduction in week 1 on a single process (e.g., 3-way match)
- No ERP schema changes or upgrades required
- Security review passes with on-prem/VPC deploy option
- Clear path to expand from shadow to assist to auto without incidents
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.