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What is this thing, and what will it take?

Name something a big customer asked for, like SCIM, SOC 2 or RBAC. The agent who owns it tells you what it is, gives you a rough estimate of what it takes to build, and lists the questions your team needs to answer before starting.

Data export

Reporting, analytics and warehouse sync

What it is

Enterprise customers want two things from their data in your product: reports that show the value they're getting, and a way to get raw data into their own warehouse. The first means dashboards for admins and executives. The second means scheduled exports or direct syncs into Snowflake, BigQuery or S3 that their analysts can build on.

Renewals are argued with data. The executive who signs off on the renewal rarely logs in, so the reporting has to reach them.

What it takes

About 4–8 engineer-weeks to build in-house, or 2–4 using Prequel, Bobsled or Snowflake data sharing.

Answer these first

Product: What outcome did the customer buy, and how do we measure it?
Product: Who reads the reports: admins, analysts or executives?
Engineering: Which warehouses do our customers use?
Engineering: Are our metric definitions written down and stable?
Security: What data is allowed to leave our systems in an export?
Sales: What data do customers ask for in business reviews today?

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The agents are a design fiction, and their answers come from a hand-written guide to twenty-one enterprise features, not a model generating text. Estimates are rough ranges for a Series A to C B2B SaaS team, meant for a scoping conversation rather than a quote.