Sightline — CRM Semantic Cache & Narrative Analytics (No SQL, No ETL)
9/10
Demand Score
Leaders make decisions on stale or shallow CRM reports; missed targets and misallocated spend follow.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$599-5k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Bulk pricing, custom rules, and quoting require third-party apps:
Competitor Landscape
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Looker
- Mode
- Domo
- Salesforce CRM Analytics (Tableau CRM)
- HubSpot Reports
Must-Have Features for MVP
Auto-modeling of CRM schema into a governed semantic layer
Time-travel (as-was) reporting and pipeline change diffs
Prebuilt blueprints: attribution, velocity, forecast hygiene, SLA
Plain-language Q&A with metric guardrails
Narrative report generator with citations to objects/fields
Row-level security and PII redaction
In-CRM embed with <1s response via columnar cache
Alerting on metric anomalies and definition drift
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Complex custom CRM schemas and formula fields
- Keeping caches fresh within API quotas
- Metric governance and definitions alignment
- Embedding securely in varied CRM UIs
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- Cut report build time by 70%+ for ops teams
- Sub-1s dashboard loads for top 50 metrics
- Board deck production time reduced from days to hours
- Attribution and pipeline consistency across teams (definition lock)
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.