Business systems, CRM and agentic AI
Misfit between an organisation and its software is not a defect to be fixed. It is a property of buying a process that was designed for somebody else. The useful question is which kind of misfit you have and what it costs.
Packaged applications are built to support generic requirements, which makes an imperfect fit the expected outcome rather than the exception. Misfit shows up in functionality, data, usability, role, control and organisational culture, and it is usually absorbed by people rather than reported. The spreadsheet beside the system is the visible symptom.
That is not an argument against buying standard software. For most functions it remains the right trade. It is an argument for knowing which functions it is wrong for, and pricing the workaround honestly.
CRM designed around the sales motion a business actually runs rather than a default pipeline. Business intelligence and reporting layers connected to the systems already in place. Agentic AI where it changes an outcome, applied to a process that has been fixed first, because an AI feature laid over a broken process automates the fault and makes the workaround harder to see.
We build these in-house, which means the people designing the process and the people writing the system are the same people.
We sell tailored systems. That is one end of a spectrum that runs from using software exactly as shipped to building from scratch, and it is the end that fails most expensively when it is the wrong choice.
Our published study on this subject sets out where tailored systems fail, and it sets that out first and at the same length as the alternatives. Read the failure section before the rest if you want to test whether it is analysis or a sales document.
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