Modernize your ERP without replacing it

Modernize without the rip-and-replace.

Painless connects the ERP, CRM and spreadsheets you already run and makes them work like one system. Live in under four weeks. Replace the old systems when you're ready.

Every workflow is deterministic and validated against your history before it goes live.

workflows/invoice.pl proved
rule invoice.total
  = sum(lines.amount) + tax
  where tax = round(subtotal × rate, 2)
  given rate ∈ [0, 1]

rule invoice.subtotal
  = sum(lines.amount)
$ painless prove workflows/invoice.pl
replaying 18,402 invoices, 2024-Q1 to 2026-Q3
✓ invoice.subtotal   18,402 / 18,402 match
✓ invoice.total      18,402 / 18,402 match
Proven. Output matches history. Safe to go live.
Works with
SAP S/4HANAOracle NetSuiteMicrosoft Dynamics 365Sage IntacctSalesforceHubSpotExcelGoogle Sheets
The problem
70%+
of new ERP projects miss their goals.
Source: Gartner

New systems still fail the business. The technology isn't why.

Rip-and-replace is the problem. Months of migration and retraining before anyone sees an improvement. By go-live, the business has routed around it with spreadsheets.

Painless takes the opposite route. Keep what works, modernize around it, and replace pieces only once they've proven themselves.

What the platform does

Modernize without the headache.

One layer over the systems you already have. Nothing migrates on day one, and every workflow is checked against your history before it goes live.

Connect your existing systems

ERP, CRM and spreadsheets, read through one layer. Nothing is migrated or rewritten. Your current systems stay the source of truth until you decide otherwise.

Turn your spreadsheets into apps

The spreadsheets your team actually runs on become real apps: shared, permissioned and connected to live data. Same logic, no broken formulas.

Let AI handle the busywork

Creating quotes, responding to tracking requests, reconciliation, price matching and data entry happen automatically, inside the same deterministic rules. Your team reviews what's unusual instead of touching every record.

Catch issues before they become disruptions

Disconnected systems and spreadsheets leave gaps. Low inventory scribbled on a clipboard in the warehouse becomes an immediate flag in the system, not a surprise two weeks later.

How it works

Stand up fast. Prove the value. Replace at your pace.

01Weeks 1 to 4

Connect and stand up

Point Painless at your systems with read-only connectors. It learns your schema, custom fields included. First workflows live in under four weeks.

02First quarter

Prove the value

Teams start with the processes that hurt most. Each new workflow replays your historical data and must match it before it ships. You see the gains before committing to more.

03When you're ready

Replace at your pace

When the team is ready, move the remaining ERP, CRM and spreadsheet workloads over. Replace them fully, or keep what still works.

The difference

Fewer surprises.

Rip-and-replace

  • A year or more of migration before anyone sees value
  • Retrain the whole company on day one
  • Spreadsheets live on because the new system can't do what they did
  • Problems discovered in production, usually by finance

Painless

  • Live in under four weeks on the systems you already have
  • Teams adopt one process at a time
  • Spreadsheets become apps instead of workarounds
  • Workflows validated against your history before they ship
Guarantees

What "proven" means here.

When a workflow is created, Painless runs your historical data through it and checks the output against what actually happened. It goes live only when they match.

Replay

Real history, not test cases

Every new workflow is run against your actual past records, not a handful of examples someone wrote.

Match

Output must agree

The workflow's results are compared to what your systems actually produced. Any mismatch blocks go-live.

Visibility

Mismatches are shown

You see exactly which records differed and why, so the workflow is fixed before anyone depends on it.

Deterministic

A proof holds

Same input, same output, every run. A workflow that matched history yesterday still matches today.

FAQ

Questions we get a lot.

Do I have to replace my ERP?

No. Painless runs alongside your existing systems. Replace them later, in pieces, or keep them as long as they work.

How fast can we be live?

Under four weeks for your first connected workflows. Connectors are read-only and workflows are validated against your history before they ship, so there's no long parallel-running phase.

What does the AI actually do?

The repetitive work: quotes, tracking requests, reconciliation, price matching, data entry. It runs inside the same deterministic rules, so it can't produce a result the rules wouldn't allow.

What does "deterministic" mean in practice?

Same input, same output, regardless of when or where a workflow runs or what ran before it.

Where does it run?

End-to-end encrypted. Your systems remain the source of truth. Everything else is stored securely in Azure.

Get started

Keep the systems. Lose the headache.

Tell us which systems you run and where it hurts. We'll show you Painless on a setup like yours.