Manual data-stitching across disconnected work systems
Pain point
Workers burn half their day copying/reconciling data between 2–4 systems that don't talk to each other; chronic understaffing makes it worse.
Signal
Strongest explicit build-signal in the set — a commenter literally says *"I was working on an AI tool today to streamline a workflow that requires 3 separate systems that don't communicate. Half my day is marrying data in different systems manually. I'm so tired of it."* **(flagged: user is already building the product themselves = near "I'd pay for this")**. Reinforced in same thread by "perpetually short 1-2 people" and "tired of the modern workplace of efficiency and optimization." Thread ~2.5K upvotes; narrow (one thread) but very high intent.
Opportunity
"Shadow-IT integrator" — a desktop/browser agent that watches a user perform a repetitive cross-system task once, then replays it as a scheduled job (incl. screen-scraping/RPA fallback for systems with no API). Sell bottom-up at $20–40/seat to individual analysts/ops staff, not to IT. Feasibility: medium-hard (reliability and auth/compliance are the hard parts); a narrow v1 for 2–3 specific SaaS pairs is quick.
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