Perspective
The Future of SaaS, and What We Are Building in Educli
Educli · Built to RUN™
Mark Cuban said it on TBPN last week. Generic, off the shelf software is losing relevance because most businesses run on messy, idiosyncratic workflows that generic tools cannot fit.
33 million US companies need AI customised to their specific processes, not another one size fits all SaaS tool.
The people who build that custom fit are Forward Deployed Engineers, a role Palantir popularised. Engineers who sit inside a client’s actual operations, write real code against real data, and ship working systems instead of generic demos or pure research.
OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS are now hiring heavily for this role. Code plus systems thinking plus business translation is becoming the highest leverage skillset in tech.
Migration practice needed this years before it had a name.
Educli was not designed from a generic CRM template and adapted to migration. It was built the other way round. Eight years of running an actual RMA practice, forced into software, one operational problem at a time.
That is the Forward Deployed model applied to a regulated profession. The workflow depth is not a feature list. It is the accumulated shape of real files, real deadlines, and real OMARA scrutiny.
Generic practice management software will keep optimising for the demo.
We are optimising for the compliance requirements.
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