Short answer: Wiley Jones shows procurement, inventory and order management apps built on a dimensional data model, so a demo coffee company can track grinds and 25 SKU variants and build forms much like Google Forms.
Watch this answer from Episode 44 (starts at 2:46) · Episode 44 notes and transcript
From Episode 44: This AI Platform Lets Anyone in Your Company Manage Operations Without a Single Engineer, starting at 2:46.
Sam Nadler [2:45]: Amazing. I'm super excited to see it. We'll jump into overall kinda, how you founded the company, some of the customer base, but give us that quick demo so we you know, I this is to me, it's such a big product to tackle. I would love to see a little bit of how it works.
Wiley Jones [3:00]: So there's a couple of things in here that I think are really important to note. The first is that it looks and feels like a lot of standard enterprise software. And the thing that we are really clear about is we've tried to make the primitives very simple so that we can build applications that model themselves around what customers need as opposed to forcing people into the shape of the application. So in the world of ERP or what we call ARP, adaptive resource platform, we think a lot about procurement, inventory management, order management. We have these core applications, and what we'll a lot of times do is we'll be able to say, I have these entities and structures in here. I wanna be able to actually show our on hand inventory. I wanna see all of our locations and all the different inventory values we have across the business. Now, the reason this is so hard for so many other companies is that they actually have some set of unique behavior that's unique to their company versus what you would see inside of an existing, off the shelf system. So what we're able to do is especially if I go look at, for example, master data, stock keeping units, very common example here. There will be a lot of components and capabilities in their product catalog that don't fit nicely into the data model that a vendor has provided to them.
Wiley Jones [4:19]: So if I go look at this is our demo instance of like a fake coffee company. Now they actually want to put in their stock keeping units in the data model for it. They wanna actually say, hey. We actually have Grinds that we wanna track. We actually wanna go into here and say, here are all of my medium grind coffees and here are the 25 variants of medium grind coffees that we actually track. And so we actually have fundamentally created a dimensional data model. So the ability to take a dimensional data model that's highly composable, you matrix that over with, very ergonomic user experiences around, let's say, creating a new SKU. It's just a form that you can go in and build similar to what you would do inside of Google Forms, just connect it into, the database of the system. You combine all of this together with reporting capabilities and actually what we'll get into with Doss bot, and you have a really powerful adaptive suite of applications with best practices for procurement inventory manager order management all baked in. To put it really succinctly, we help our customers manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data.
